Two teams desperate for a return to winning ways meet in Munich as Bayern (13-18) takes on Barcelona (20-11).
Game Notes: Bayern vs. Barcelona

A pair of road defeats last week means Barca risks dropping out of the top four with another setback, while Bayern also lost twice in the double-round week to complicate its top 10 chances. Two veteran Spanish stars will attempt to dominate in different ways, with Bayern hoping to control the paint through Serge Ibaka while the visitor looks for orchestration from Ricky Rubio. Barca cruised to victory, 98-59, when the teams met in October behind 15 points from Jabari Parker. Bayern needs to rediscover its offensive identity this week after averaging just 68.8 points in the last three games.
- Barcelona beat Bayern 98-59 in Round 4. The 39-point difference was tied for the third largest victory ever by Barcelona in a EuroLeague game. It also marked Bayern's worst-ever defeat in the EuroLeague.
- Barcelona won their 2022 EuroLeague playoff series 3-2. Barcelona won games 1, 3 and 5. In the deciding Game 5 of that playoff series, Barcelona triumphed 81-72 behind 26 points from Nicolas Laprovittola.
- When Bayern beat Barcelona 72-82 on the road in the 2020-21 regular-season finale, Jalen Reynolds made a club-record 13 two-point shots on 17 attempts.
- When Bayern beat Barcelona 90-77 in Munich in December 2020, Wade Baldwin posted a club-record PIR of 41.
- Bayern's Leandro Bolmaro joined Barcelona as a teenager and spent three years there, from 2018 to 2021, making his EuroLeague debut with the team.
- Bolmaro and Barcelona guard Nicolas Laprovittola have been teammates on the Argentine national team.
- Two Barcelona players, Willy Hernangomez and Laprovittola, played under current Bayern head coach Pablo Laso at Real Madrid. Hernangomez played under Laso in the 2012-13 and 2015-16 seasons, while Laprovittola did so from 2019 to 2021.
- Jan Vesely of Barcelona and Vladimir Lucic of Bayern were teammates at Partizan Belgrade for three seasons, from 2008 to 2011. Together they helped Partizan reach the 2010 EuroLeague Final Four.
- In Game 5 of 2022 playoffs, Barcelona's Alex Abrines pulled down a career-best 7 rebounds.
- Bayern forward Vladimir Lucic set his career high with 6 assists against Barcelona in March 2019.
- Bayern's Elias Harris posted his career high with 6 rebounds playing for Brose Bamberg against Barcelona in February 2016.