8 teams to battle it out in the inaugural Basketball Africa League playoffs to determine who will become champions of this new African club championship.
SCHEDULE
Wednesday 26th May
17:30 CAT, FAP vs Zamalek
21:00 CAT, AS Salé vs Petro de Luanda
Thursday 27th May
17:30 CAT, AS Douanes vs US Monastir
21:00 CAT, Ferroviario de Maputo vs Patriots BC
Following the postponed match from Group C between Zamalek and GS Petroliers which ended on Monday evening, the eight teams that will play the inaugural Basketball Africa League, BAL playoffs have all been known.
The last game of groups sees Egypt’s Zamalek humiliating their counterparts of GSP from Algeria, 97-64. The rankings have been made to define the playoffs schedule.
1. US Monastir
2. Zamalek
3. Petro de Luanda
4. Patriots BC
5. Ferroviario de Maputo
6. AS Salé
7. FAP
8. AS Douanes
Among the 8 teams that will play in the Basketball Africa League playoffs, 3 have finished the group stage matches unbeaten that are US Monastir, Zamalek, and Petro de Luanda taking 1st, 2nd, and 3rd seed respectively. While Two best 3rd place teams advanced to the playoffs as 7th and 8th seeds. The 1st seed faces the 8th, 2nd faces the 7th, 3rd faces the 6th, and the 4th faces the 5th.
The playoffs of the Basketball Africa League games are scheduled to tip-off this Wednesday, May 26th, and games will be played in a knockout format with a single-elimination game.
Patriots that had a series of 9-0 records in the rounds of qualifications, 2-1 in the group stage, will face Mozambique’s Ferroviario de Maputo, a team that went through all rounds of qualifications. And then qualified to the playoffs after beating AS Douanes and GSP.
These playoffs will see Petro face AS Salé again on Wednesday as the shock of this round, these teams were in Group B, and Petro edged AS Salé 97-78 to claim the top spot of this group.
The semifinals are scheduled for Saturday, May 29, 2021.
