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The French team is the current champion and the main candidate to win again. The one-way match will be played on Thursday 15 January in Maloste and the return on Thursday 22 in France.

Lucas Fernández's players have been chasing on the scoreboard throughout the game and have suffered terribly to get the pass to the next round.

The Biscayans have easily won the first round of the championship, gaining 19 points of advantage for next Wednesday's return match at the Lauber Dezso Sport Hall in Hungary.

Lucas Fernández's team will play the one-way game at home in Maloste on December 11 and the return match in Pecs will be on December 18. Lointek Gernika and Universitas Pecs have faced each other twice in the regular phase.

Lucas Fernández's team has been chasing on the scoreboard for almost the entire meeting and has been close to losing advantage at times, but has finally come close enough to secure its classification.

The Biscayan team went behind on the scoreboard at the end of the first quarter, but dominated the rest of the partials to take the first step in the classification goal.

In the second phase of the tournament, the Basque team has played two games, and has won both, winning on the Slovak team's court.

The team led by Jaume Ponsarnau has suffered in several stages of the match, but has almost always been ahead of the scoreboard with a major victory.

This first match of the second phase, which will be broadcast live by EITB, will begin at 6:30 p.m. PAOK Thessaloniki and Prievidza will be the teams that will make up the Basque group.

The men in black face Sporting Portugal in the second round of the FIBA Europa Cup on December 10 at home.