MIES (Switzerland) - The 2020-21 Basketball Champions League Regular Season is back following the brief break for the November window of the FIBA Continental Cup Qualifiers, and action resumes with a four-game slate that involves all Group E and Group F teams.

Let's have a closer look at all four Tuesday encounters:

SIG Strasbourg (1-1) vs. Peristeri (1-1) -- Group E, 18:00 CET

Former Greek international Ioannis Bourousis has joined Peristeri

• Peristeri will look very different compared to their latest BCL game on November 10 against VEF Riga, since Argyris Pedoulakis has returned to the helm, replacing Nikos Papanikolopoulos as head coach, while the west Athens team haved added three new players in Ioannis Bourousis, Jaye Crockett and Ryan Harrow.
  
  
• Terran Petteway and Christos Saloustros, who missed Peristeri's last BCL game through injuries, are back in the lineup but the Athens team have removed Loukas Mavrokefalidis from their roster.
  
  
• Strasbourg have not seen domestic league action since October. Peristeri were in Greek Basket League action on Saturday and succumbed to a 78-70 loss to Lavrio at home, despite a near double-double of 19 points and 9 rebounds by newly-arrived Bourousis.
  
  
• Strasbourg are looking to end a 6-game losing skid at home in the BCL, the longest such streak by a French team in competition history. Strasbourg, who have taken part in all five BCL seasons, had only lost five of their first 26 home games.
  
  
• Peristeri, who won on the road in the season opener (106-88 at Rytas Vilnius) are looking to win consecutive road games for the first time since they joined the BCL in autumn 2019.
  
  
• Strasbourg have given up only 4 points off turnovers over the first two games of the season, fewer than any other team so far in the 2020-21 BCL.
  
  
• Peristeri are leading the league in made three-pointers, averaging 14.5 per game over the first two contests. The Greek team also lead the league in three-point field goal percentage, as they are shooting 53.7 percent from downtown on average and they are in fact the only team shooting above 50 percent from beyond the arc this season.
  
  
• Peristeri’s Steven Gray, who established a new all-time BCL efficiency rating record in the season opener, is leading the league in scoring with 27 points per game and in made three-pointers, with 13 triples over his first two games.
  
  

Rytas Vilnius (1-1) vs. VEF Riga (1-1) -- Group E, 18:30 CET

Ryan Boatright has signed with Rytas but his return to the BCL could be delayed, depending on his recovery from illness

• Rytas will likely be without Arnas Butkevicius, Rokas Gustys, Andrew Goudelock and Maurice Ndour, either due to injury or illness.
  
  
• Ryan Boatright, who played in the 2017-18 BCL with Besiktas, is a new arrival at Rytas and he might make his BCL debut with the Lithuanian powerhouse in Tuesday's game, if he recovers in time from Covid-19.
  
  
• The Vilnius side took to the floor without the aforementioned players on Sunday against archrivals Zalgiris Kaunas in LKL action and suffered their heaviest defeat in the Lithuanian 'clasico', 92-45. Martynas Echodas was the only player to score in double digits for the shorthanded Rytas.
  
  
• VEF are coming off an 86-42 rout of University of Latvia on Friday, in Lithuanian-Estonian league action.
  
  
• Rytas lost their home debut in the BCL (106-88 at the hands of Peristeri) and are looking to avoid becoming the first Lithuanian team to lose their first two home games in the competition.
  
  
• VEF on the other hand, who won 84-81 at Peristeri last time out, are looking to win two consecutive BCL games for the first time since joining the competition.
  
  
• Rytas are shooting 46 percent from three-point range and only 44 percent from two-point range. The Lithuanian team and Peristeri are the only two sides so far this season with a higher field goal percentage from downtown than from within the arc.
  
  
• Mindaugas Gidrziunas is the Rytas player to have scored in double digits in both BCL games, averaging an impressive 77.8 percent from beyond the three-point arc and 100 percent from the free-throw line.
  
  
• Kristers Zoriks, who has scored 17 or more points in each of his two appearances, is looking to become on Tuesday the first ever VEF player to score at least 15 points in three consecutive games in the BCL.
  
  

Brose Bamberg (2-0) vs. Pinar Karsiyaka (1-0) -- Group F, 20:00 CET

Pinar Karsiyaka's DJ Kennedy is looking to enter the BCL history books on Tuesday

• Bamberg's Tyler Larson has suffered a tendon injury and will remain out of action indefinitely.
  
  
• Bamberg's latest outing was in German BBL action on Sunday night and they escaped 106-99 winners from GIESSEN 46ers, thanks in large part to a near double-double of 25 points and 9 rebounds by David Kravish.
  
  
• Karsiyaka meanwhile are coming off a 94-81 road win at Bursaspor in Turkish BSL league action on Sunday, behind a 22-point display by Sek Henry.
  
  
• Bamberg are on a three-game winning streak in the BCL (counting their last game of the 2019-20 season), after losing five of their previous seven games.
  
  
• The German team have so far played a total of 16 games at home in the competition, with 14 of them being decided by a single-digit point margin.
  
  
• Counting their previous season in the BCL (2018-19), Karsiyaka are currently riding a 5-game winning streak in the competition.
  
  
• Bamberg have given up only 0.88 points per possession through their first two games and have the best defense in the league in this respect, so far this season. Bamberg, alongside JDA Dijon, are in fact the only teams to give up fewer than one point per possession this season.
  
  
• Chase Fieler of Bamberg, who scored 14 or more points in each of his last three appearances in the BCL, is looking on Tuesday to string together four consecutive games scoring in double digits for the first time in his career in the competition.
  
  
• If D.J. Kennedy of Karsiyaka scores 10 or more points in Tuesday's encounter he will become the first player in competition history to string together 18 consecutive games scoring in double digits.
  
  

Fortitudo Bologna (0-1) vs. RETAbet Bilbao Basket (0-2) -- Group F, 20:30 CET

Fortitudo announced on Sunday they had decided to part ways with coach Romeo Sacchetti

• Fortitudo have dismissed head coach Meo Sacchetti and his former assistant Stefano Comuzzo will coach the Italian team in Tuesday's game.
  
  
• Bilbao's Ondrej Balvin and Quentin Serron are out of Tuesday's game through injury. The Belgian guard has suffered a knee ligament rupture that will possibly keep him sidelined for a long period of time.
  
  
• Balvin was averaging 9.5 rebounds per game after the first two encounters, a joint league-high among player who have featured in at least two BCL games this season.
  
  
• Fortitudo suffered on Sunday a 99-85 defeat at Brescia in Italian Serie A action, despite a 23-point, 11-rebound double-double by Ethan Happ.
  
  
• Bilbao are also coming off a Sunday defeat in their domestic league, after losing 78-77 to Estudiantes at home in the Spanish Liga Endesa. Alex Reyes had a team-high 21 points in a losing effort.
  
  
• Fortitudo, who lost 100-63 to Bamberg in their BCL debut, are looking to avoid becoming only the second Italian team to lose both of their first two games in the competition. Capo d’Orlando are the team that holds that dubious distinction after losing both of their first two games in 2017-18.
  
  
• Bilbao on the other hand became in November the first Spanish team to lose their first two games in the BCL.
  
  
• Bilbao average only 13.5 assists per game and are bottom of the league in assists (among teams that have played at least two games in the BCL this season).
  
  
• Fortitudo's Adrian Banks scored in double digits in each of his last four appearances in the BCL (three with Brindisi, one with Fortitudo) and has made all 15 of his free-throws in that span.