Weekend preview: The decisive time in the Total League starts / Top game Pikes – T71 in the women’s league

With another game-day on the schedule this weekend, the decisive time in the women’s and men’s Total league is about to start.

The standings in the men’s league shows 3 groups of 4 teams ( article –> The situation in the men’s standings shows 3 groups of 4 teams / Heffingen – Esch on Wednesday )
The title favorites Résidence, Etzella, Basket Esch and T71 will fight for the first 2 spots over the next weeks. the next 4 teams in the standings (Arantia, Contern, Musel Pikes, Heffingen) have their eyes on the play-in-game. The bottom 4 teams (Racing, Amicale, Sparta, Telstar) are basically are out of the race, except for Racing that still has small chances but only with a winning streak over the next weeks.

This weekend, there is a clear favorite in every game!
Saturday:
19:00 Heffingen – Sparta
–> Must-win for Heffingen to stay in the play-off-race against a surprising Sparta team that will look to win a few more games this season.
19:00: Arantia – Amicale
–> Arantia wants to stay in an excellent position in the standings, a home-win against Amicale is necessary to keep the opponents behind in the standings.
19:30: T71 – Contern
–> T71 wants to finish the season on plaxce 1 or 2, they want to win every home game, but Contern is a difficult opponent.
20:00: Résidence – Musel Pikes
–> Leader Résidence is on a roll, can the Pikes grab a gib road win and improve in the standings?
20:00: Telstar – Basket Esch
–> Basket Esch should not be challenged by the pro-less Telstar team that has different goals than winning games.

Sunday:
17:15: Etzella – Racing
–> Etzella has the fewest losses in the league (2) together with Résidence. In Racing’s situation, every game feels like a must-win at this moment.

Top game Musel Pikes – T71

In the women’s Total League, 4 games are scheduled this weekend, Sparta is not playing this week. With a big road-win in Dudelang, Résidence jumped to the second place in the standings. This Saturday, Amicale will challenge the team from Walferdange in the Alzette-derby, this should be a very interesting game to watch.

The top game between the two strongest teams so far this season will be played in Stadtbredimus. The Musel Pikes (10:2) host T71 (9:2). The winner of this game will be on top of the standings. The Musel Pikes won the first meeting 62:60, both teams will also look to win the direct comparison!
Contern has struggled over the last weeks and the loaded team from Gréngewald is the heavy favorite to grab a road-win on Saturday-evening.

On Sunday, Etzella (5:7) and Basket Esch (5:6) will meet in a highly important game in the race for the 6th place. Both teams will try to reach the 6th place at the end of the regular season so that this game could be a very impprtant indicator. Basket Esch won the first meeting by 23 points (69:46).

Saturday:
18:30: Musel Pikes – T71
18:30: Amicale – Résidence
19:30: AB Contern – Gréngewald

Sunday:
15:15: Etzella – Basket Esch

Women’s MVP race presented by LALUX –> Women’s JICL MVP race presented by LALUX (3rd edition)