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On May 6, 2017 is a date that, hardly, the UCAM Murcia CB fan can forget.
The university team played for the first time a European Final Four and did it in a basketball temple like the OAKA, a giant ode to basketball.
There, the Tercios obtained a bronze medal that cost sweat and blood, before the MHP Riesen (74-85).
Fate has wanted that, 6 months later, the paths of both teams come together in the group stage of the Basketball Champions League 18-19.
The university students come to this clash, in Bavarian lands, with an unblemished 5-0 in their locker.
The games against Sidigas Avelino, Anwil Wloclawek, Nizhny Novgorod, BC Ventspils and Le Mans have resulted in victories.
Different, if not the MHP Riesen, who has lost all the matches he has played in the European competition, and who occupies the last place in the Group A classification. The Germans chained 10 games, between his League and Champions, losing, but the last weekend they broke that streak after winning, at home, at Ulm (81-92).
For its part, the UCAM Murcia CB comes from being defeated in the always difficult Palau Blaugrana against Barça Lassa.
But it is another matter, because the Murcia are giving their best in a competition that already has the vitola of 'fetish'.
And one of his star players is being Milton Doyle.
The American, in his first European experience, is giving a good account of his talent for this sport.
Promedia, in the five games played, 13.4 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists.
The MHP Riesen will not be able to count on his best player, Malcom Hill, who was injured a few days ago.
However, they will be from the game Kelan Martin (who averages 14 points per game), Donatas Sabeckis (6 rebounds per game) and Jordan Crawford (who averages nearly 7 assists per game).
At 8:00 pm, in Ludwigsburg, and live on Popular TV, UCAM Murcia CB and MHP Riesen will face each other, 191 days after that spring Sunday in which the university students showed that faith moves mountains.
Alex Urtasun: "very good memories"
One of the players who lived that evening was Alex Urtasun.
The Navarrese player has assured that the match "brings me very good memories, because it was a very important year for the club.
We live great moments, and one was to get the bronze medal. "
Similarly, he assured that to win MHP Riesen "you have to make a very solid defense of your outside players and defend well penetrations in 1 to 1," he explained.
Source: UCAM Murcia CB
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