Real Madrid and UCAM Murcia will play the grand final of the Endesa League starting next Saturday, June 8. It will be a historic series, since they have never met at this stage of the competition, it is the first for the university students and could be the 37th for the white institution in a course in which they won Super Cup, Copa del Rey and they lost in the Euroleague final against Panathinaikos at the Uber Arena in Berlin. The ACB is different, with a UCAM unleashed after knocking down the impregnable Martín Carpena of Málaga on three occasions.
The final It will start at 8:30 p.m. at the WiZink Center. It does not coincide in time with the clash of Movistar Estudiantes, the other big club in the city, in the semi-finals of the LEB Oro. The schoolboys will open the Final Four against Tizona Burgos starting at 5:30 p.m. in Madrid Sand.
This is how they arrive
Madrid arrives undefeated in the Endesa League Playoffs. In the middle, of course, they lost in the Euroleague grand final against Panathinaikos and the dream of the twelfth team escaped. But in the national competition they swept Dreamland Gran Canaria (2-0) and the eternal rival, Barcelona, 3-0. They are favorites, especially with the home court factor in their favor. If Unicaja had passed, they would start outside. It will not happen with the victory of UCAM.
The university students are, for their part, celebrating. They made good that fact that said that they never came back from 2-0 or 0-2 in the ACB Playoffs and they signed a tremendous 77-0 in the balance. UCAM, too, is one of the great revelations since Caja San Fernando from 1996 or the historic TDK Manresa from 1998.
In the balance between the finalists there is positive news for UCAM. The Murcians defeated Madrid in the second leg of Murcia in the regular league (73-61). Although the immediate precedent was a white triumph over Sito Alonso’s team in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey (84-79).
