ATHENS (Greece) - You saw what happened on Friday, with two of the best games of the whole Basketball Champions League history for drama, unpredictability, star-power, talent, tactics, and atmosphere.
Just imagine what could happen first with the bronze medal game and then with the title on the line, on Sunday.
Before preparing for the last two games of the season in the BCL Final Four, powered by SUNEL, take a look at the 25 must-know facts about the third-place and first-place Finals.
La Laguna Tenerife vs. AEK Betsson BC - April 11 at 16:00 CET
Despite being the teams that have played the most games in the BCL, this will be the first meeting between La Laguna Tenerife (155 games) and AEK Betsson BC (138 games) in the competition.
The third-place game will be played between teams from Spain and Greece for the second year in a row, after the 87-84 win of UCAM Murcia against Peristeri Domino's in 2024; the teams from Spain have won their last four Final Four meetings against teams from Greece.
Tenerife have won their only previous third-place game in the BCL, 84-79 against Unicaja in 2023; if they win, that would be their 6th medal in the BCL, at least twice as many as any other team.
Tenerife lost their Semi-Final against Galatasaray (80-90), ending a run of 14 straight wins in the competition; they have lost consecutive games only once before, against SIG Strasbourg and Filou Oostende back in November 2016.
Six of Tenerife's last eight BCL games have seen a win of the team trailing at halftime; they have won the first quarter and lost the second quarter in each of their last five games in the competition.
AEK will play the third-place game for the first time in the BCL; if they win that game, they will become only the second team to have won a medal of each color in the competition, alongside Tenerife, after winning the gold medal in 2018 and the silver medal in 2020, both in Athens.
AEK have lost their last six games played against teams from Spain in the BCL; four of their previous five Final Four games in the BCL have been played against teams from Spain, they won the first two (vs. Murcia in 2018 and Zaragoza in 2020), but lost the most recent two (vs. San Pablo Burgos in 2020 and Unicaja in 2025), all those games having been played in Athens.
Tenerife (72.6) and AEK (75.2) are two of the three teams that have conceded the fewest points per game in the BCL this season (also Peristeri, 74.9). Only three teams have conceded fewer points per possession than AEK this season (1.05).
Only two teams are averaging more three-pointers made per game than Tenerife (10.7) in the BCL this season, and at the same time, only three teams have conceded fewer three-pointers made per game than them (7.5) this term. Tenerife have won the three medal-winning games in the BCL where they scored 10+ three-pointers and lost the two where they scored fewer than 10 shots from behind the arc.
AEK made only one three-pointer in their Semi-Final against Unicaja, the fewest for them in a BCL game; in fact, they have made only three three-pointers or fewer in three of their last four BCL games against teams from Spain.
Marcelinho Huertas (Tenerife) has dished out only three assists in the Semi-Final against Galatasaray, but has made fewer than five assists in consecutive BCL games only once before, two games in a row in the Round of 16 in 2019-20; he has averaged 12.3 points and 10.3 assists in his previous three medal-winning games in the BCL.
Grant Golden (AEK) has scored exactly 19 points in each of his last two BCL games after scoring 15+ points in only one of his previous 14 appearances; in fact, he made 81 percent of his field goals in his last two games after making only 59 percent of his field goals in his first 14 BCL games.
Galatasaray vs. Unicaja - April 11 at 19:00 CET
This will be the 5th meeting between Galatasaray and Unicaja in the BCL, with both teams winning two of their previous four encounters; each of the four games between them ended with margins of only six points or fewer.
This will be the 3rd BCL Final played between teams from Türkiye and Spain, after Bandirma vs. Tenerife in 2017 (59-63) and Karsiyaka vs. Burgos in 2021 (59-64), both won by the Spanish teams but only by margins of four and five points respectively.
Seven of the previous eight BCL Finals have been won by the team leading at halftime, the only exception being the win of Tenerife over BAXI Manresa in 2022 (98-87), and all the previous Finals have seen the team leading at the end of the third quarter being crowned champion.
Galatasaray are the 3rd team from Türkiye to play a BCL Final, after Bandirma in 2017 and Karsiyaka in 2021 but they will attempt to become the first one to lift the trophy; in that case, Türkiye would become the 5th country to have a team being crowned champion, after Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain.
Galatasaray have won their last five games in the BCL, their best winning run in the competition; however, their last defeat in the BCL was against Unicaja, 91-97, in the Round of 16. They have scored 90+ points in each of their last four games, their best such run in the competition.
Unicaja will play their second BCL Final in a row, after lifting their first trophy last year against La Laguna Tenerife (80-75); only Burgos in 2020 and 2021 previously managed to win consecutive BCL campaigns.
Unicaja have won 24 of their last 25 BCL games, including each of their last six, but the sole defeat in that run came against Galatasaray, 84-86 in the Round of 16 this year. Unicaja have scored 100+ points in four games in the BCL and three of those were against teams from Türkiye.
Unicaja have scored 92.8 points per game in the BCL this season, more than any other team in 2024-25 and the most by any team in a single league campaign - before this season, the most points per game scored by a team in one BCL season were 88.5 by ERA Nymburk in 2021.
Unicaja are the only team that has scored at least 50 percent of their field goals in the BCL this season (51.3%) and are also the only team to have scored at least 60 percent of their two-pointers (60.6%); on the other side, Galatasaray have conceded only 43.1 percent of the field goals they have faced this season, the best defensive rate among all teams, and are one of four teams to have conceded fewer than 50 percent of the two-pointers they faced (49.6%).
Only two teams have averaged fewer personal fouls per game than Galatasaray in the BCL this season (17.7) and at the same time, they have drawn more personal fouls from their opponents than any other team (23.3 per game).
Unicaja have made more steals than any other team in the BCL this season (9.4) and are the only team to average 20+ points scored from turnovers this term (21.2).
Kendrick Perry was Unicaja's top scorer in the BCL Final last season, with 17 points, and could become only the third player to score 15+ points in multiple BCL Finals after Amath M'Baye (2019 & 2021) and Kevin Punter (2018 & 2019). He averaged 14.0 points in his previous four games against Galatasaray, making all his 19 free throws attempted in the process.
Will Cummings (Galatasaray) has averaged 19.9 points in his 10 BCL games played in 2025, scoring 20+ points in six of those games, including 22 points the last time he faced Unicaja. However, Unicaja won 10 of the last 11 BCL games where they saw an opponent player scoring 20+ points.