Strasbourg was eliminated from the Basketball Champions League (BCL) by losing Tuesday in Bonn (83-77) in a support match. The SIG had to win in Germany to climb into the last four of this European Cup, lower level than the Euroleague but comparable to that of the Eurocup, the other tournament organized by the private league.
Deprived by injury of their main asset Marcus Keene, one of the best scorers of the tournament (18.1 points on average) and of the French championship (20.7 pts), the Alsatians resisted and even led 65-63 at the end. of the third quarter. Americans Tim Frazier (20 pts) and DeAndre Lansdowne (17 pts) kept hope alive. But in the last quarter they came up against the mastery of the German club led by its leader TJ Shorts (24 pts), expected as the MVP of the competition.
Without Keene, injured in a thigh against Dijon on Saturday, the qualification of the SIG would have been a feat against Bonn, inserted at the top of the German championship between Alba Berlin and Bayern Munich, the two German representatives in the Euroleague.
