Here are some interesting facts about one of the 7DAYS EuroCup finalists, Virtus Segafredo Bologna.
Virtus Segafredo Bologna: Did you know...?
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...Virtus Segafredo Bologna is in its first 7DAYS EuroCup final! It is also the first Italian team to reach this far in the competition.
...Virtus has a chance to win a fifth different continental title? Virtus won the Saporta Cup title in 1990, lifted the EuroLeague trophy twice in 1998 and 2001, claimed the EuroChallenge crown in 2009 and the BCL in 2019.
...Virtus has made it to its 11th continental final? Added to the five titles it won, it lost three EuroLeague finals (Maccabi Tel Aviv 1981, Zalgiris Kaunas 1999, Panathinaikos Athens 2002), and two Saporta Cup championship games (Pallacanestro Cantu 1978, AEK 2000).
...Milos Teodosic and Daniel Hackett can join an exclusive group of players that won the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and 7DAYS EuroCup titles? Teodosic won the EuroLeague title with CSKA Moscow in 2016. Hackett lifted the trophy also with CSKA in 2019. Only 17 players won both competitions, including stars like Nando De Colo, Ricky Rubio, Rudy Fernandez and Dejan Tomasevic.
...Teodosic dishes 13.9 assists per 40 minutes? It is the highest number for any player ever with at least 10 games in a season. He leads the 2021-22 EuroCup assists table at 8.5 per night.
...Toko Shengelia has a chance to win his second 7DAYS EuroCup title? Shengelia lifted the trophy with Valencia Basket in 2010. He would be the 20th player to win at least two EuroCup titles. Rafa Martinez is the only player to lift the trophy three times, with Valencia in 2010, 2014 and 2019.
...If Virtus wins, Shengelia's 12-year gap between EuroCup titles is also an all-time record. Simas Jasaitis (Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius 2005, Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar 2013) had to wait for eight years to win a second EuroCup crown.
...Kyle Weems made it to his second 7DAYS EuroCup Final? He previously reached this stage with Strasbourg in 2016, losing against Galatasaray Istanbul.
...Marco Belinelli can become the third player to win the NBA and the 7DAYS EuroCup titles? Fabricio Oberto (Valencia 2003, San Antonio 2007) and Brian Cardinal (Valencia 2003, Dallas 2011) are the only player to win both crowns.
...Niccolo Mannion's father, Pace Mannion, won a European club competition? He led Pallacanestro Cantu to win the 1990-91 Korac Cup.
...Amar Alibegovic's father, Teo Alibegovic, won a European club competition, too? He helped ALBA Berlin win the 1994-95 Korac Cup.
...head coach Sergio Scariolo is in his second 7DAYS EuroCup final? Coach Scariolo previously reached this stage with Khimki Moscow Region in 2009, losing against Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius?
...Scariolo can be the second coach to win the EuroBasket, World Cup and EuroCup titles? Scariolo won three EuroBasket (2009, 2011, 2015) and a World Cup gold medal (2019). The late Dusan Ivkovic won the World Cup (1990) and the EuroBasket titles (1989, 1991, 1995) with former Yugoslavia, and lifted the EuroCup trophy with Dynamo Moscow in 2007.