The last and most consequential week of the 7DAYS EuroCup Top 16 is here, with each and every Round 6 game on Tuesday and Wednesday meaning something in the race to reach the quarterfinals or win home-court advantage in future playoff rounds. Five quarterfinals berths are untaken and 11 teams retain a shot at filling them.
Never in the five-year history of the Top 16 have so many spots been open this late; never have so many teams been eligible to take them; and never has at least one playoffs berth been available in all four groups entering the final round.
What’s more, there is cross-group competition even among already-qualified teams to finish with the best record and highest positive point difference in the Top 16 in order to determine home-court advantage going forward through the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals.
As such, there is everything to play for in Round 6. Here are the qualification possibilities!
GROUP E
Unicaja Malaga (1-4) vs. Monaco AS (4-1), March 9
Nanterre 92 (2-3) vs. Joventut Badalona (3-2), March 9
Monaco has already clinched first place.
Joventut will qualify if it wins OR loses by fewer than 6 points in regulation time. Otherwise, it is eliminated.
Nanterre will qualify if it wins by at least 6 points in regulation time. Otherwise, it is eliminated.
Unicaja is already eliminated.
GROUP F
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar (2-3) vs. Dolomiti Energia Trento (3-2), March 10
Partizan NIS Belgrade (2-3) vs. Boulogne Metropolitans 92 (3-2), March 10
Trento qualifies and clinches first place if it wins.
Trento qualifies and finishes second if it loses by fewer than 12 points in regulation time AND Metropolitans wins.
Trento is eliminated if it loses by 12 or more points in regulation time AND Metropolitans wins.
Trento qualifies with a loss if Partizan wins and the combined margin after regulation time in both games is fewer than 18 points.
Metropolitans qualifies in first place if it wins AND Lokomotiv wins.
Metropolitans qualifies in second place if it wins AND Trento wins.
Otherwise, Metropolitans is eliminated.
Lokomotiv qualifies in second place if it wins by at least 12 points in regulation time AND Metropolitans wins.
Lokomotiv qualifies in first place if it wins AND Partizan wins, but does so by fewer than 21 points plus Lokomotiv’s winning margin after regulation time in both games. Otherwise, Lokomotiv will finish second.
Lokomotiv is eliminated with a loss OR if it wins by fewer than 12 points in regulation time AND Metropolitans wins.
Partizan qualifies if it wins by 17 or more points AND if Trento wins.
Partizan qualifies if it wins in regulation time AND Lokomotiv wins in regulation and the combined margin of victory between them is 18 points or more. If that margin is fewer than 18 points, Partizan is eliminated.
Partizan qualifies in first place if it wins AND Lokomotiv wins, AND Partizan’s margin of victory in regulation time is at least 21 points higher than Lokomotiv’s margin of victory in regulation.
Partizan is eliminated with a loss
GROUP G
Buducnost VOLI Podgorica (2-3) vs. Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana (3-2) , March 9
Virtus Segafredo Bologna (5-0) vs. JL Bourg En Bresse (0-5), March 9
Virtus has already clinched first place.
Cedevita Olimpija will qualify if it wins OR loses by fewer than 4 points in regulation time. Otherwise, it is eliminated.
Buducnost will qualify if it wins by at least 4 points in regulation time. Otherwise, it is eliminated.
Bourg is already eliminated.
GROUP H
MoraBanc Andorra (2-3) vs. Mornar Bar (1-4), March 10
Herbalife Gran Canaria (2-3) vs. UNICS Kazan (5-0), March 10
UNICS has already clinched first place.
Gran Canaria qualifies if it wins or if Andorra loses by fewer than 10 points in regulation time.
Gran Canaria is eliminated with a loss IF Andorra wins OR if Mornar wins in regulation time by at least 10 points.
Andorra qualifies if it wins and Gran Canaria loses. Otherwise, it is eliminated.
Mornar qualifies if it wins by at least 10 points AND if Gran Canaria loses. Otherwise, it is eliminated.
7DAYS EuroCup tiebreakers
Best record in head-to-head games between all tied teams.
Higher cumulative score difference in head-to-head games between all tied teams.
Higher cumulative score difference for the entire current phase.
Higher total of points scored for the entire current phase.
Higher sum of quotients of points in favor and points against of each match played in the current phase.
* If a tiebreaker does not resolve a tie completely, a new tiebreak process is initiated with only those teams that remain tied.
* In accordance with the 2020-21 7DAYS EuroCup Bylaws, all points scored in extra period(s) will not be counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.
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