By Johnny Askounis/ info@eurohoops.net
The win-or-go-home Game 3 of the Basketball Champions League has developed into an unpredictable setting. It doesn’t really matter whether playing at home or on the road. It’s all about surviving whatever the venue.
Diving into the next set of Game 3 fixtures, it can be important to recall previous similar encounters putting seasons on the line.
Eurohoops retrieves the Game 3 playbook noting an even split between home and away wins to go with steadily emerging usual participants and more.
2019-20
The fourth BCL campaign changed the format from a two-game series to a best-of-three series attached to the Round of 16 and Quarterfinals. The coronavirus pandemic impacting the sports world went into FIBA’s continental competition and replaced the Quarterfinals with a champion-crowning Final Four, after delaying the first-ever Game 3 fixtures by several months.
The schedule was delivered according to the initial plan for Game 1 and Game 2 of the newly-introduced best-of-three series. Game 3 became necessary for two out of the eight matchups but the 2019-20 season was suspended due to health and safety regulations. From March to September, practically early in the 2020-21 season, Game 3 finally surfaced with the home-court advantage clinching berths in the Final Eight.
| Home | Away | Score |
| Iberostar Tenerife | Filou Oostende | 62-54 |
| JDA Dijon | Nizhny Novgorod | 75-67 |
JDA Dijon went on to finish third in the Final Eight. But Tenerife was knocked out in the Quarterfinals.