He Unicaja maintains its firm step on the way to finding a place in the next Copa del Rey in Valencia 2026. The greens won 99-91 on Saturday against San Pablo Burgos and settle for another week in sixth place in the standings, with a balance of 7 wins and 3 lossestied with La Laguna Tenerife (4th) and Joventut (5th).
The tenth matchday of this weekend was marked by the suspension of two matches due to the rain and wind storm that has hit Spain. The Dreamland Gran Canaria-Baskonia was not played on Saturday and this Sunday it was not possible to play at the Roig Arena either. Valencia Basket. As it is, the classification is limp with those four teams with one game less.
Leadership for Real Madrid
Sergio Scariolo's team remains alone at the top of the standings, after their resounding 112-76 victory against BÃ squet Girona, in a match in which the whites rested important players in their rotation such as Hezonja, Lyles and Tavares. The white team scores an impressive 9-1 in the standings.
Valencia and Murcia, league podium
Valencia falls out of the lead because they could not play their match. The taronja are left with a balance of 8-1. He also has 8 victories, although with two defeats, UCAM Murcia, which is third after winning a very close and very exciting duel 80-77 against Joventut, who was ahead throughout the first half, but gave in to the push of the locals, led by Ennis and Cate.
Tenerife, Joventut and Unicaja
Just behind the first three appears that trio of pursuers in which Unicaja is behind the islanders and Badaloneses only for having a worse average than them. Unicaja's is +44, compared to +66 for Penya and +71 for the Txus Vidorreta team.
Barça and Bilbao, in the Cup zone
The last two places among the 8 best, which will be the ones that grant a ticket for the Copa del Rey when matchday 17 closes, are for Barça and Surne Bilbao Basket. The culés won this Sunday on the Baxi Manresa court and they have a record of 6-4 in the standings, one less than Unicaja, La Laguna and Joventut. Behind, Surne Bilbao Basket is eighth from Melwin Pantzar on loan from Unicaja. The Basques beat Hiopos Lleida this weekend by 93-75 and have a balanced balance in the table of 5-5. But here it must be taken into account that Baskonia did not play its match in Las Palmas, so it falls to ninth position, with 4-5 on the table.
Descent
One more week there is no news in the red zone of the Endesa League since the last two lost again. Burgos remains bottom, with 1-9after falling at MartÃn Carpena, but showing a very good image in Porfi Fisac's first game as coach of the Castilians.
For its part, Coviran Granada is penultimate, with that same balance of 1-9, after their 86-81 defeat on the MoraBanc Andorra court, a match in which the Granadans showed their indignation at the arbitration treatment.
