The former series champion Alba Berlin has secured a direct playoff place in the basketball Bundesliga with the seventh win from the past eight games.
The team of coach Pedro Calles defeated the already fixed relegated BG Göttingen 101: 69 (55:37) and completed the main round with 18 wins and 14 defeats – this is enough to land among the top six.
The currently sixth -placed Berliners go to the Postseason very formally, on the last regular day of the day on Sunday the capital club is free of play.
Malte Delow was the best thrower against Göttingen, Martin Hermannsson and Gabriele Procida with 14 points. Six teams reach the quarter-finals directly, four more games in the Play-in tournament for the two remaining playoff places.
The lions Braunschweig consolidated third place through a 67:48 (30:27) at the Rostock Seawolves, the Alba as a table-ninth and with a balance of 16-15. Ratiopharm Ulm drove a 92:77 (53:37) home win against the Bamberg Baskets.
Bamberg’s Karsten Tadda rose to the sole Bundesliga record player with his 639.