CHN – Xinjiang win Regular Season with four rounds to spare

BEIJING (CBA) - Xinjiang Flying Tigers moved to an unassailable position on the CBA Regular Season leader board with a 108-102 win against DongGuan Leopards on Wednesday.

The win puts Xinjiang five wins clear of their closest contenders – incidentally DongGuan – with only four rounds left to play in the Regular season.

No 3 Guangdong move to within a win of DongGuan beating Bob Donewald’s Shanghai Sharks 130-104.

With Guangdong and DongGuan being the only two teams, apart from Xinjiang, already assured of a place in the play-offs, action over the next four rounds is bound to be interesting.

While for five teams play-off dreams are already dead and buried, there are as many as nine teams in the reckoning to fill the five remaining slots in the play-offs

CBA Results - Round 30
Beijing – Zhejiang C 94-101; TianJin R. – Qingdao DS 85-91; Jiangsu – Bayi 104-99; DongGuan – Xinjiang 102-108; Shandong – Foshan 91-83; Shanghai – Guangdong 104-130; Shanxi Zh – Fujian 108-107; Zhejiang G.L – Jilin 105-103.

CBA Standings
1. Xinjiang Flying Tigers 27-1
2. DongGuan Leopards 22-6
3. Guangdong Tigers 21-7
4.  Jiangsu Dragons 17-11
5. Zhejiang Cyclones 16-12
6. Zhejiang Golden Lions 16-12
7. Beijing Ducks 15-14
8. Bayi Rockets 15-14
9. Shandong Flaming Bulls 14-14
10. Shanxi Zhongyu 12-15
11. Liaoning Hunters 12-16
12. Shanghai Sharks 12-17
13. Qingdao Double Star 10-18*
14. Jilin Northeast Tigers 10-19*
15. Foshan 9-19*
16. Fujian Xunxin 6-21*
17. TianJin Rongcheng 5-23*

*denotes teams having failed to make the play-offs

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