Pisa, 24 May 2024 – While the team involved in the single C series championship achieved salvation in the second round of the play-outs with Synergy Valdarno, university basketball is experiencing another moment of success with the qualification of the Pisan representative among the top four to the finals of the University Championships Of Campobassoto which the representative of CUS Pisa has qualified, respecting a custom of recent years. THE TEAM – The yellow-blue team, on the occasion sponsored by Gas and Heat Spahas on the bench Andrea Giuntoli and is made up of Serie B university athletes, such as Lippi and Simonetti from Lucca, Nannipieri from Castelfiorentino, Giachetti ex Don Bosco Livorno in Serie C, players active in regional division 1, such as Plaia from Viareggio, Conti and Toni from Castelfranco, Zaccagni from Fides Livorno, Apolloni from Liburnia Livorno, and from Cussino Papa of regional division 2. THE ELIMINATING PHASE – The university team was included in an elimination round including the universities of Turin, Brescia and Parma. Giuntoli’s boys passed the first phase brilliantly, winning with Parma 80-69 (21 points of Lippi), with Turin 94-86 (30 points of Simonetti and 20 of Lippi) and, once qualification has occurred, with Bresciaafter two overtimes, for 109-99 (top scorer the cussino Dad with 26 points, followed by Accounts with 25). THE FINAL PHASE – The cherub representative meets today the strong, listed, Bologna, who has a Serie B quintet, in one of the two semi-finalsThe winner will meet, on Saturday, the correspondent from the other semi-final, in the final for first and second place; the losers will compete for the last place on the podium in the consolation final.
