The play offs begin (ball two at 6.15 pm) at the PalaBasletta, always without an audience. Live TV on digital terrestrial channel 645
VIGEVANO
Today at 18.15 the first of the playoffs will be played. Vigevano meets at Palabasletta Etrusca Basket San Miniato in what is the first match of the five that make up the quarter-finals of the Serie B playoffs. Vigevano comes from a defeat in the last match of the regular season against Crema and for this reason he closed the championship in fourth place in the standings, while maintaining the favor of the field in the playoffs. San Miniato, which has just returned from a period in which some of its players were hit by Covid, instead lost against Faenza in the last championship game. The Tuscan team is one of the best equipped in the opposing group and plays mainly offensive basketball. For the ducals it will be important in today’s challenge not to give up what was the winning element for a good part of the championship, namely defense.
A positive note is the presence of all the players in the availability of coach Paolo Piazza, who also recovered the long Mario Bevilacqua who had muscle problems in the last few games and the playmaker Valerio Cucchiaro, victim of an ankle injury a month ago. The match will be behind closed doors, but media coverage is expected. Thus began the final part of a championship that was not easy for Elachem Vigevano, even if it brought results beyond expectations. After a summer preparation marred by Covid, the yellow and blue started winning the first eight league games and found themselves fighting for third place in the last few days, with the certainty of having obtained a more than positive placement in the playoffs, despite this season the favor of the field is mitigated by the absence of the public, which has always been one of the key points for Vigevano basketball.
It will be possible to follow the race on the MS Sport digital platform on the Sky satellite bouquet, on channel 814, which hosts the MS Channel programming. In the last few hours the news has also arrived that the game will be visible on channel 54 of the Tivusat satellite platform, usable in clear text. At the base of the agreement with the League is the desire to enhance the fundamental work of the Clubs in the development of television productions. The selection of the races to be proposed on the Mediasport Group channels is carried out by evaluating not only the technical value of the race, but also the quality offered by the Clubs in terms of footage and commentary, analyzed during the season. In Lombardy the Mediasport Group channel is visible at 645.—
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