ATHENS (Greece) - The second day of action at the Final 8 in Athens features an all-Spanish clash and the rematch of a 2018 encounter which proved a turning point in the modern history of the event hosts, AEK.

ERA Nymburk and the Athens yellow-blacks do battle in the third Quarter-Final, while the fourth Quarter-Final sees Casademont Zaragoza and Iberostar Tenerife cross paths for the first time outside the Spanish borders.

ERA Nymburk vs. AEK - 17:30 CEST (18:30 local time)

• The 2020-21 Czech NBL season tipped off on September 12 and Nymburk already have four wins in as many games. The 2020-21 Greek Basket League hasn't started yet, but AEK played in the Greek Supercup last week, succumbing to two losses in as many games.
  
  
• Nymburk and AEK have faced each other four times previously, with the Czech side winning their first encounter in March 2018 at OAKA - one of only two defeats AEK has suffered in nine Play-Offs games at home. AEK however won the return leg of that Play-Offs series, in Prague, as well as the two most recent games between the two teams.
  
  
• Nymburk had put together the longest winning streak of the 2019-20 season, with nine wins in a row, when the BCL was suspended in March due to the pandemic. Monaco's 14 wins in a row remains the longest winning streak in BCL history.
  
  
• Nymburk are the only team this season to hold opponents' field goal percentage below 40 percent. The Czech team has forced opponents to shoot 39 percent from the floor, on average.
  
  
• AEK on the other hand lead the league this season in opponents' field goal attempts, as they only allow opponents to take 57.8 shots per game. AEK only allow opponents a league-best (lowest) 70.3 possessions per game.
  
  
• Nymburk have the best defensive rating in the league this season, with just 0.96 points per possession, and are also leading the league in second-chance points, with 14.8 per game.
  
  
• Recent Nymburk signing Luka Rupnik has already played four times against AEK in the BCL, averaging 8.5 points per game. The only game in the Slovenian guard's BCL career in which he stayed scoreless was the last time he faced the Greek team, in October 2019 as a Telenet Giants Antwerp player.
  
  
• Nymburk's Vojtech Hruban, who is the all-time BCL scoring leader with 752 points, has averaged 17 points in his last three games against AEK.
  
  
• AEK's Tyrese Rice is the only player in BCL history to have four different 20+ points in the same postseason. Rice, who will be making his official debut with AEK in the Quarter-Final, accomplished that feat as a Brose Bamberg player in the 2018-19 season.
  
  
• AEK's Jonas Maciulis scored his BCL career-high 21 points in October 2018, in a Regular Season clash with Nymburk.
  
  

Casademont Zaragoza vs. Iberostar Tenerife - 20:30 CEST (21:30 local time)

• Zaragoza announced Sunday that 20-year-old guard Vit Krejci has suffered a severe knee injury and will likely miss the entire season. They will also have to make do in Athens without big man Javier Justiz. Tenerife will be without Dejan Todorovic, who tore his ACL in the first game with his new team and Santi Yusta, who suffered the same injury last February.
  
  
• Zaragoza are coming off an 88-71 win over Gran Canaria in Spanish Liga Endesa action on Sunday, behind 22 points from Dylan Ennis and 19 points from DJ Seeley. On the same day, Tenerife pulled off what is an early candidate for comeback win of the year, after erasing a 24-point third quarter deficit on the road to beat UCAM Murcia 84-82 on a buzzer-beating Sasu Salin layup.
  
  
• Tenerife have faced a fellow Spanish team on one previous occasion, when they were eliminated by UCAM Murcia in the Round of 16 in 2017-18. This is Zaragoza's first season in the BCL and they have never faced a team from Spain before.
  
  
• Zaragoza had won eight games in a row, the second-longest winning streak in the league, when the 2019-20 season was suspended in March. The Aragon team scored 80 or more points in seven of their last 10 games in the competition, after never scoring 80 or more points in their first six games.
  
  
• Zaragoza averaged a league-high 29.5 defensive rebounds per game this season. They were also the third-ranked team in points allowed in the paint, as Zaragoza's opponents only scored 30 points in the key per game, on average.
  
  
• Tenerife averaged 81.9 points per game in the Regular Season but dropped to 69.2 points per game in the Play-Offs.
  
  
• Tenerife's showed a league-leading defense this season as they gave up the fewer points, 69.2 per game. Tenerife -- whose defensive rating is a league second-best 0.98 point per possession -- and Nymburk are the only teams to give up fewer than 1.0 point per possession this season.
  
  
• Zaragoza's Rodrigo San Miguel, a former Tenerife player, has won 10 games in the BCL Playoffs, a joint-high alongside his former teammate Ferran Bassas. This will be the first time San Miguel faces his former team in a BCL game.
  
  
• Marcelinho Huertas leads the league in assists this season, as he averaged 8.8 assists per game in the Regular Season, and 5 assists per game in the Play-Offs.
  
  
• Tenerife head coach Txus Vidorreta has won nine games in the BCL postseason (including Play-Offs and Final 4), the most among all coaches in competition history.