Basket. Cus Bologna aims for the European top ten – UniboMagazine
At the European University Championships, after a start and a climb, the Alma Mater team recovers and wins the comparison with the University of Vienna. Out of the top eight, the goal now is to take ninth place
Out of the first eight (the defeat with the Germans was fatal), theUniversity of Bologna has a goal. the European University Basketball Championships (Eusa) in the best way. And in the best way at this point it means Grab the ninth positionwhich would still confirm the Alma Mater Studiorum in the top ten of the best universities (you can’t always win).
Check’University of Vienna the canvas is the usual one. Unibo begins with the handbrake on and a defense that concedes too much. Thus, after a quarter, Vienna is ahead 29-20. The beginning of the end? Not at all, the University of Bologna shakes off the rust and, with a partial of 34-12, puts things in order. He wants to push Cus Bologna and he never stops. It ends 106-76 (20-29; 54-41; partials 87-61), with regret, again, for the last quarter with the Germans, in the qualifying round, which if managed differently allowed Unibo to fight for a medal. But Unibo knows how to win – how to demonstrate the three consecutive titles won from 2017 to 2019, before the stop for Covid -, but also to lose and recognize its mistakes. And now the goal is to close in the best possible wayto show that the Alma Mater is always among the strongest.
The comment of Dmytro Klyuchnik: “A tough game, also because we complicated our lives at the beginning with a soft attitude. Almost thirty points allowed at the start are too many. Then, we overturned the game and continued to run. Now we go ahead, trying everything not to repeat mistakes and to be more awake right away “.
On the same wavelength too Marco Barattini. “We started uphill, you discharged mentally. Then there was the shock, we started playing well, raising the pressure in defense. We turned off the taps and now we just have to continue like this.”
Today, at 13.30, confrontation with the University of Liege: in case of success the Cus Bologna would dispute the final for the ninth place.
The Scoreboard: Alberto Conti 17, Dmytro Klyuchnyk 17, Marco Timperi 17, Gherardo Sabatini 15, Lorenzo Folli 13, Stefan Nikolic 12, Lorenzo Deri 8, Tommaso Ranieri 4, Marco Barattini 3, Matteo Folli, Carlo Trentin. All. Matteo Lolli (deputy Giorgio Broglia; team manager Matteo Galli and Agostino Briatico).