
Belgium in the spotlight and 13 other facts you might have missed this week
MIES (Switzerland) - The Basketball Champions League Play-Offs are over! But before focusing on the Final Four, let's have a look a some key facts to take away after this week's games.
A couple of attendance records were broken this week. The single game attendance (BCL all-time) was broken at OAKA Arena in Athens, with 18'310 spectators, and the Play-Offs average attendance was also broken with close to 7'000 fans on average at each game.
Teams
- The defending champion hasn't reach the Final Four for the second consecutive season in BCL.
- Telenet Giants Antwerp are the first Belgian team qualifying for a BCL Final Four. Belgium is the seventh country represented in BCL's Final Four.
- A Spanish team will be represented in the BCL Final Four for the third consecutive season: no other country has been represented in each Final Four in the competition.
- Iberostar Tenerife have conceded fewer than 65 points in six of their seven home games in BCL Play-Offs history: they have lost the only game in which they have conceded more than 65 points at home (83 v UCAM Murcia in March 2018).
- Segafredo Virtus Bologna are the only team in BCL to have scored 45+ points in the paint in multiple Play-Offs games in BCL this season.
- Brose Bamberg have allowed AEK to score 15% of their attempted 3-pointers – only one team have conceded at a lower percentage from behind the arc in a Play-Offs game in BCL this season.
- AEK have made seven blocks against Brose Bamberg, a joint-high among all teams in a Play-Offs game in BCL this season: they are the only team to have made 6+ blocks in multiple BCL Play-Offs games in 2018/19.
Players
- Brose Bamberg's Tyrese Rice is only the second player scoring 25+ points in more than one Play-Offs game in BCL history (Manny Harris, also two games with 25+ points).
- Only one player has blocked more shots than Telenet Giants Antwerp's Ismael Bako and AEK's Delroy James (5) in a Play-Offs game in BCL history – UCAM Murcia's Emanuel Cate made seven blocks v Giants Antwerp this season.
- Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem's James Feldeine has made 100% of his six attempted FT against Iberostar Tenerife: the last time James Feldeine missed a free-throw in a BCL game was on 20 November against JDA Dijon: since then he has scored 27 consecutive FT in BCL.
- Iberostar Tenerife's Tim Abromaitis has scored 20+ points for the first time in his 12 appearances in BCL Play-Offs game: Abromaitis has scored all his 15 attempted FT in BCL Play-Offs this season.
- Segafredo Virtus Bologna's Dejan Kravic has made more than 10 points without missing a single field goal for the first time in BCL this season.
- AEK's Vince Hunter is the second player combining for a double-double in multiple games in BCL Play-Offs this season – Banvit's Jordan Morgan has also made two double-doubles in BCL Play-Offs in 2018/19.
- Nizhny Novgorod's Vladimir Dragicevic (53 PTS,31 REB) and AEK's Vince Hunter (62 PTS, 36 REB) are the only players combining for a total of 50+ points and 30+ rebounds in BCL Play-Offs this season.