In the last seven years, only last year did the team that finished the regular season ahead of everyone go on to win the championship
They will be played on Sunday the last 40 minutes of the regular season which will serve to define the playoff grid. The names of the eight participants in the post season are already known, the positions remain to be established to define the pairings for the quarter-finals.
For first place the big favorite is Virtus Bolognacurrently in first place together with Olimpia Milano, but with the advantage of the direct match. For Luca Banchi’s team it will be enough to beat Trento at the Segafredo Arena to end the regular season in the lead, regardless of the result of the EA7 engaged on the Cremona pitch, and have the field factor in their favor in all rounds of the playoffs.
A significant advantageespecially if we go and reread the story of the last Finals in the endless series with Milan, decided only after 7 exhausting battles. 7 games always won by the home teamwith that of Ettore Messina who exploited the Forum factor after finishing the regular season ahead of everyone.
But Olimpia’s 30th championship was also the only one won by those who had won the regular season in the last seven years. Why in the remaining 6 (actually, 5: the 2019/2020 championship was interrupted due to Covid) the triumphs were runner-up three times (twice Milan and Venice) e twice the third (Bologna and Venice).
The largest feat in 2014/2015when the Dinamo Sassari of wonders trained by Meo Sacchetti managed to win the tricolor after finishing fifth in the championship.
