MIES (Switzerland) - La Laguna Tenerife and AEK Betsson BC had satisfying nights in Game 1, even though they grabbed victories in different fashion.
Moving on the road for Game 2, they could come back to the Basketball Champions League Final Four. You don’t want to miss the 12 must-known facts about such challenges.
Bertram Derthona Basket vs. La Laguna Tenerife (0-1) - April 16 at 18:30 CET
Bertram Derthona Basket have won 10 of their 11 home games in the BCL, including each of the most recent seven, but eight of their 11 home games ended with a margin of seven points or fewer.
Tenerife have won their last 13 games in the BCL, their best winning run in the competition, including an overtime win against Derthona last week (93-89) - however they have lost three of their last four road games played in the Quarter-Finals.
Tenerife (1st - 10.9) and Derthona (4th - 12.0) are two of the four teams having made the fewest turnovers per game in the BCL this season; Tenerife also have the best assists per turnover ratio in the competition this season (1.8).
Kyle Weems (Derthona) has scored more than 15 points in each of his last two BCL games, including 17 last week against Tenerife, as often as in his previous 46 appearances. Weems had 10+ points and 5+ rebounds in each of his last two home games in the competition.
Marcelinho Huertas (Tenerife) has scored 20+ points in each of his last two BCL games, including 26 points last week in the first leg of this tie, but has never had a longer such sequence in the competition; he has scored 22+ points and made 7+ assists in each of his three BCL games played against Italian teams in 2025.
Both Derthona and Tenerife weren't successful in their respective domestic league this past weekend, losing to Dinamo Sassari and Real Madrid. But while the Spaniards still qualified for the ACB Playoffs, the Italians are currently out of the Top 8.
Nanterre 92 vs. AEK Betsson BC (0-1) - April 16 at 20:30 CET
Nanterre 92 have won four of their last six home games in the BCL, seeing a win of the team leading at halftime in each of those six games, and they have won their previous two home games played against Greek teams.
AEK have never won a road game in the Quarter-Finals of the BCL (D1 L3) and have even suffered their heaviest defeat in the BCL during one of those, 51-91 in Jerusalem in April 2023.
Among the 16 teams that have played more than three games in the BCL in 2025, Nanterre and AEK are two of the three yet to grab 40+ rebounds in a game this year (also Tenerife); overall, Nanterre have grabbed fewer rebounds per game than any other team this season (30.5) while only two teams have grabbed fewer offensive rebounds per game than AEK (8.2).
Desi Rodriguez has scored 12+ points in 11 of his 12 home games played in the BCL, averaging 14.3 points per game when playing at home. He has made seven three-pointers in his last three home games, as many as in his first nine home games.
Hunter Hale (AEK) has averaged 21.7 points, 4.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists in three Quarter-Final games in the BCL. He scored 25 points the last time he played a BCL game in France, against Le Mans in January 2024 with Promitheas Patras BC Vikos Cola.
It wasn't an easy weekend for these two teams: AEK lost by 25 points (94-69) to PAOK, while Cholet beat Nanterre 88-78 despite Justin Tillman's 20 points.