2019–20 BCLA season

The 2019–20 Basketball Champions League Americas season was the 13th edition of the top-tier level professional club basketball competition in the Americas and first of the Basketball Champions League Americas (BCLA) since launched by FIBA in September 2019. The competition began in October 2019, with the group stage, and would have been concluded in April 2020. On 14 March 2020, FIBA suspended all of its competitions until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] The competition resumed on 27 October 2020 with an altered format, including a single-match final in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 30 October 2020.[2]

Basketball Champions League Americas
Season	2019–20
Teams	12
Dates	28 October 2019 – 30 October 2020
Final positions
Champions	Quimsa (1st title)
Runners-up	Flamengo
Awards
MVP	Brandon Robinson
← 2019 LDLA 2020–21 →

San Lorenzo won the last FIBA Americas League tournament. They were eliminated in the semifinals by eventual winners Quimsa, who went onto beat Flamengo 92–86 in the final to be crowned as the inaugural champions of the Basketball Champions League Americas.

Team allocation

A total of 12 teams from 7 countries will participate in the 2019–20 Basketball Champions League Americas. The participating teams were announced on 1 October 2019.[3]

Teams

League positions after eventual playoffs of the previous season shown in parentheses.[3]

Group stage

San Lorenzo^LDA (1st)	Flamengo (1st)	Aguada (1st)	Capitanes (2nd)
Instituto (2nd)	Franca (2nd)	Biguá (WC)	Valdivia (1st)
Quimsa (CW)	Mogi das Cruzes (3rd)	Fuerza Regia (1st)	Real Estelí (WC)

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• LDA: FIBA Americas League title holders
• CW: Preseason tournament winners
• WC: Qualified through Wild Card

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows.[3]

Phase	Round	Dates
Group stage	Gameday 1	28 October – 1 November 2019
	Gameday 2	24–29 November 2019
	Gameday 3	16–20 December 2019
Playoffs	Quarterfinals	14–21 January 2020
	Semifinals	9 March – 27 October 2020 (originally 9–14 March 2020)
	Final	30 October 2020 (originally April 2020)[note 1]

Group stage

The 12 teams are drawn into four groups of three, while taking into account geographic location. In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away, in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarterfinals, while the remaining team in each group is eliminated. The group stage started on 28 October and will end on 20 December 2019.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		SLR	MDC	BIG
1	San Lorenzo	4	4	0	390	335	+55	8	Advance to quarterfinals		—	107–78	104–88
2	Mogi das Cruzes	4	2	2	339	355	−16	6			78–82	—	91–76
3	Biguá	4	0	4	345	384	−39	4			91–97	90–92	—

Source: BCL Americas

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		QUI	FRA	AGU
1	Quimsa	4	3	1	367	330	+37	7	Advance to quarterfinals		—	98–92	87–61
2	Franca	4	2	2	349	324	+25	6			74–82	—	95–94
3	Aguada	4	1	3	308	370	−62	5			103–100	50–88	—

Source: BCL Americas

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		FLA	INS	VAL
1	Flamengo	4	4	0	338	301	+37	8	Advance to quarterfinals		—	81–76	82–71
2	Instituto	4	2	2	325	308	+17	6			75–83	—	92–67
3	Valdivia	4	0	4	294	348	−54	4			79–92	77–82	—

Source: BCL Americas

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		RES	FUE	CAP
1	Real Estelí	4	4	0	381	331	+50	8	Advance to quarterfinals		—	90–65	99–85
2	Fuerza Regia	4	1	3	327	348	−21	5[lower-alpha 1]			92–97	—	77–64
3	Capitanes	4	1	3	335	364	−29	5[lower-alpha 1]			89–95	97–93	—

Source: BCL Americas
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points scored: Fuerza Regia 170–161 Capitanes.

Playoffs

Bracket

	Quarterfinals						Semifinals						Final
	Quimsa		90	96
	Mogi das Cruzes		84	83
							Quimsa	91	87	110
							San Lorenzo	84	100	97
	San Lorenzo	59	91	75
	Franca	75	76	73
													Quimsa			92
													Flamengo			86
	Flamengo		90	103
	Fuerza Regia		67	76
							Flamengo		63	66
							Instituto		54	64
	Real Estelí	80	87	85
	Instituto	88	85	90

Team 1 hosts games 2 and 3.

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
San Lorenzo	2–1	Franca	59–75	91–76	75–73
Quimsa	2–0	Mogi das Cruzes	90–84	96–83
Flamengo	2–0	Fuerza Regia	90–67	103–76
Real Estelí	1–2	Instituto	80–88	87–85	85–90

Semifinals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Quimsa	2–1	San Lorenzo	91–84	87–100	110–97 (OT)
Flamengo	2–0	Instituto	63–54	66–64

Final

Quimsa v Flamengo

30 October 2020[note 1]	Quimsa	92–86	Flamengo	Montevideo
20:00 UTC−3	Scoring by quarter: 27–19, 23–24, 13–25, 29–18
	Pts: Robinson 26 Rebs: Ramírez 8 Asts: Copello, Ramírez 3	Report	Pts: Marquinhos 20 Rebs: three players 6 Asts: Balbi 5	Arena: Antel Arena Attendance: 0[note 2] Referees: Andrés Bartel (URU), Gonzalo Salgueiro (URU), Carlos Peralta (ECU)

Notes

1. The final originally consisted of a best-of-three series, but it was changed to a single game in a neutral venue due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]
2. The remainder of the competition, held in October 2020, was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

References

1. "FIBA competitions suspended". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
2. "BCL Americas Final will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
3. "Basketball Champions League Americas groups and schedule confirmed". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2 October 2019.