Photography: Carolina Echague M.
The very final of the National Basketball League between the University of Concepción and Colegio Los Leones de Quilpué is approaching with swift steps, casts that starting this Saturday will begin to dispute the crown of the 2022 edition.
After a playoff phase in which they left no room for doubt, categorically winning their respective keys, finally the definition will be a reward for consistency, putting the teams with the best performance face to face throughout the entire season. season.
A long-standing confrontation on the national circuit that dates back to the dawn of the LNB, in 2013. Since then, they have already faced each other more than 40 times in the competition, with statistics that slightly leads the Campanil, realizing what at this point is already a true classic of the Chilean basket.
history of equality
A tight 96-80 in favor of the penquista team, in the regular phase of the 2013-14 championship, opened the chronicle of duels between both clubs, which reach a total of 43 games, with 23 games won by the auricielos (53, 5%) and 20 by Los Leones (46.5%).
In decisive instances, meanwhile, they faced each other four times (playoff stage), sharing the victories. This is how UdeC won the series in 2015 (4-1) and 2021 (3-2), while in 2017 and 2018 the felines won (4-1 and 4-3, respectively).
How could it be otherwise, this year the trend towards equality remained intact. Thus, in the regular phase, the university students prevailed as home owners by 90-61, while the Quilpué team did the same at home with a 93-76 victory.
