Basquete Santos beats Blumenau 70 to 66 and qualifies for the knockout stages

O Basketball Santos/Fupes/BlueMed/Instituto de Rosis beat Blumenau 70 to 66 at Arena Santos, and ended the first phase of the Brazilian Men’s Basketball Championship. The Santos team is waiting for other results to know their opponent in the knockout stage.

The caiçara team finished first in the conference with six wins in eight games, that is, 14 points won. Still, Basquete Santos could be overtaken by Basket Osasco, which still has two more games to play in the competition.

Match highlights

Gabriel Oliveira: 19 points, eight assists and five rebounds

Guga Ceccato: 11 points, five assists and four rebounds

Guizão: 16 points

Rafael Bibiano: ten points and five rebounds

CBB Championship

The Brazilian Men’s Basketball Championship is organized by CBB, thus being an official national basketball competition. Since 2020, the Brazilian Club Championship has become the second division of national basketball.

Until the end of last year, the CBB championship gave the NBB a spot, but with a
Big legal mess, the NBB is no longer an official championship, so the decision is still undefined.