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.

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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.



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