After beating them on Monday at UNO, the Estudiantes quintet plays this Friday for the penultimate date of the local basketball Apertura Tournament, with “Depo” but as a visitor. The game starts at 9:30 p.m.
With qualification to the Final Four of the Apertura Tournament assured and with a mini objective for the two remaining dates before the start of the Play-Off, Estudiantes once again sees action for the local basketball First Division championship and does so this Friday, from 9:30 p.m., against the same rival whom he beat last Monday and whose victory ended up punching his ticket to the final round: Deportivo San Vicente.
Although the first step has already been taken and in advance, now those led by Lucas Conti are pursuing another mission: stay with the 1 seed in zone A1 and play the Play-Off in UNO with home field advantage as it is usually called. To achieve this goal, they must win both games or arrive on equal terms (that is, games won and lost) with Platense, whom they are ahead of by having won the two games played in the regular stage of this championship.
The rival on duty, who, as mentioned above, Estudiantes beat 69-55 on Monday, is now left with no chance of reaching fourth place in the table and therefore the Final Four beyond the fact that if it manages to beat Pincha and Universal in the last day, and Meridiano loses and Unión Vecinal (the other two fighting to be #4 in the group) has a disadvantage with Vecinal in duels against each other. But despite what has been said, San Vicente also plays a key stop to culminate its campaign in the local basketball elite in fifth place, which would avoid direct relegation to A2; and therefore there will be a lot at stake.
Of course, if Estudiantes plays their game, puts the ball under the basket, runs the court, they should not suffer any setbacks on this visit to San Vicente and thus be at the mercy of that mini purpose called “being the one.”
