The giants Ludwigsburg, already established as “main round champions”, have finished the preliminary round of the basketball league with a win against the basketball players of FC Bayern. Ulm and Crailsheim also won.
With a win on the last match day before the play-offs, main round winner Ludwigsburg inflicted a bitter defeat on Bayern Munich’s basketball players. The Munich team lost third place in the table. The Ludwigsburg defeated Bayern with 91:77 (50:33). At the same time, EWE Baskets Oldenburg won 87:72 (38:38) at Syntainics MBC from Weißenfels, displaced Bayern and finished third on Tuesday (7pm) with another win in the catch-up game against BG Göttingen. In the event of a defeat, the Hakro Merlins Crailsheim, who won 77:70 (34:40) at Brose Bamberg on Sunday, are third. Munich remains fourth in any case.
Master Alba Berlin, who had already secured second place behind Ludwigsburg before the match day, finally won 91:81 (54:46) at the Niners Chemnitz. So far it is only certain that Ludwigsburg (1st) will meet Bamberg (8th) and Alba (2nd) against Hamburg Towers (7th) in the quarter-finals. Bayern play against Oldenburg or Crailsheim. The basketball players from ratiopharm Ulm defeated Telekom Baskets Bonn on Sunday with 94:81 and secured sixth place.
Top four in the BBL-Pokal will rise next weekend
Before the start of the championship round, the top four for the BBL Cup in Munich, which has been postponed due to corona cases in Göttingen, is on the program at the weekend. Bayern will play against ratiopharm Ulm in the semi-finals on Saturday (4 p.m.), Göttingen will face defending champion Alba (7:30 p.m.).
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