BBL: Hamburg Towers play again inside the EuroCup despite fifteenth location

That only exists in basketball! In the past BBL season, the Hamburg Towers best controlled to live up with a display of energy. At the quit of a totally messed-up season, the former play-off aspirant was only fifteenth. Nevertheless, the towers might be gambling internationally again subsequent season!

As in the two years before, the Towers get a beginning area for the privately prepared EuroCup.

“We are extremely joyful to be taking component within the international competition again and are very thankful to the EuroCup for the agree with they've placed in us and our paintings during the last two years,” says Towers boss Marvin Willoughby (forty five). “Representing Hamburg and Germany on the global level fills us with splendid delight and is and could continue to be a goal that we as an organization will hold to set for the future.”

The 2d German participant in the 2nd maximum critical European opposition after the EuroLeague is champion Ulm. In addition, the sector association FIBA ​​organizes the Champions League and the Europe Cup.

Curious: Because the organizers of the EuroCup depend normally on metropolises and proven partners, the Towers competitors Chemnitz and Rostock, who're better positioned within the BBL, need to be content with the FIBA ​​Europe Cup – Rostock even simplest in the qualification…

“I do consider that our work over the previous few years has been identified and that humans see that we're making stable development, grade by grade,” says Willoughby.

The EuroCup will be performed in two organizations of ten once more this 12 months. However, the mode has been revised. New: Instead of the top eight, most effective the pinnacle six in each institution qualify for the play-offs. In addition, the primary and 2nd region in each institution get a bye within the first play-off spherical and handiest input inside the zone-finals.

And: semi-finals and finals will now be played as fine-of-3 series – now not as person knockout games.

The Towers had reached the primary knockout spherical in every in their first  years and were eliminated from there. Coach Benka Barloschky (35): “As an agency and as a crew, we try to take the subsequent steps to set up ourselves in this league.”