2020–21 Virtus Roma season

The 2020–21 season is Virtus Roma's 61st in existence and the club's 2nd consecutive season in the top tier Italian basketball.

Virtus Roma

2020-21 season
Owner	Claudio Toti
President	Alessandro Toti
Head coach	Piero Bucchi
Arena	PalaLottomatica
LBA	Withdrawn
Supercup	Group stage (4th)

Overview

During the summer preseason period, the team faced financial uncertainty for the coming season, but at the end, on July 31, the president Toti decided to subscribe the team to the Lega Basket Serie A.[1] Coach Piero Bucchi was confirmed an the team built in just less than a month.

Roma started the season without having a top sponsor and the lack of it brought more financial problems to deal with before the end of the year. In the month of December, Claudio Toti started looking for new owners whom to hand over the team, but no offer was officially made.[2] Finally the decision to withdraw from the Serie A was taken on December 9 and the announcement was first given from the Italian Basketball Federation.[3]

Until then Virtus Roma had played 9 games with 2 wins and was placed in the 15th place of the standing, out of 16. All the games were voided and the team was fined with 600.000 euros.[4]

Kit

Supplier: Macron

Serie A Home

Serie A Away

Players

Current roster

Virtus Roma roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PF 0 Hadžić, Damir 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 103 kg (227 lb) 23 – 13 May 1997 F/C 1 Biordi, Ygor 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 25 – 17 January 1996 G 9 Beane, Anthony 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 26 – 6 May 1994 G 12 Campogrande, Luca 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 24 – 30 April 1996 PG 13 Baldasso, Tommaso (C) 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 23 – 29 January 1998 C 14 Cervi, Riccardo 2.15 m (7 ft 1 in) 115 kg (254 lb) 29 – 19 June 1991 G 15 Telesca, Samuele 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 78 kg (172 lb) 18 – 1 February 2003 C 16 Hunt, Dario 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 104 kg (229 lb) 31 – 2 May 1989 PG 22 Robinson, Gerald 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 77 kg (170 lb) 31 – 10 February 1989 PF 23 Evans, Chris 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 30 – 29 January 1991 G/F 25 Farley, Liam 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 26 – 20 September 1994 SF 99 Wilson, Jamil 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 104 kg (229 lb) 30 – 21 November 1990	Head coach Piero Bucchi Assistant coach(es) Giuseppe Di Paolo Andrea Bonacina Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 10 December 2020

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	Dario Hunt	Riccardo Cervi	Ygor Biordi
PF	Chris Evans	Damir Hadžić
SF	Jamil Wilson	Liam Farley
SG	Anthony Beane	Luca Campogrande	Samuele Telesca
PG	Gerald Robinson	Tommaso Baldasso

6+6 format (colours: Italian or homegrown players; foreign players; young players)

In

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving from		Type	Ends	Transfer fee	Date	Source
12	G/F		Luca Campogrande	24	New Basket Brindisi		1 year	June 2021	Free	6 August 2020	[5]
14	C		Riccardo Cervi	29	Pallacanestro Trieste		1 year	June 2021	Free	7 August 2020	[6]
23	PF		Chris Evans	29	Orléans Loiret Basket		1 year	June 2021	Free	10 August 2020	[7]
22	G		Gerald Robinson	31	Bursaspor Basketbol		1 year	June 2021	Free	11 August 2020	[8]
9	G		Anthony Beane	26	Spirou Charleroi		1 year	June 2021	Free	12 August 2020	[9]
0	PF		Damir Hadžić	23	Flagler College		1 year	June 2021	Free	13 August 2020	[10]
99	SF		Jamil Wilson	29	UNICS Kazan		1 year	June 2021	Free	18 August 2020	[11]
1	F/C		Ygor Biordi	24	Gilbertina Soresina		1 year	June 2021	Free	20 August 2020	[12]
16	C		Dario Hunt	31	Mornar Bar		1 year	June 2021	Free	25 August 2020	[13]

Out

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving to		Type	Transfer fee	Date	Source
7	PF		Amar Alibegović	25	Virtus Bologna		end of contract	Free	27 May 2020	[14]
77	SG		Tomáš Kyzlink	27	Reggio Emilia		end of contract	Free	26 June 2020	[15]
0	SG		Jaylen Barford	24	Al Ittihad Alexandria		end of contract	Free	1 July 2020	[16]
2	F/C		Kevin Cusenza	27	Free agent		end of contract	Free	1 July 2020
9	G		Corey Webster	31	New Zealand Breakers		end of contract	Free	1 July 2020	[17]
10	SG		Roberto Rullo	30	Free agent		end of contract	Free	1 July 2020
22	F/C		Giovanni Pini	27	Scaligera Verona		end of contract	Free	1 July 2020	[18]
34	SG		Giovanni Spinosa	22	Free agent		end of contract	Free	1 July 2020
41	F/C		Davon Jefferson	33	Maccabi Haifa		end of contract	Free	1 July 2020	[19]
44	SG		William Buford	30	Darüşşafaka		end of contract	Free	1 July 2020	[20]

Confirmed

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving from		Type	Ends	Transfer fee	Date	Source
13	PG		Tommaso Baldasso	23	Auxilium Torino		3 + 3 years	June 2022	Free	13 July 2016	[21][22]
25	G/F		Liam Farley	26	Bowdoin		1 + 1 year	June 2021	Free	9 August 2019	[23]

From youth team

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Transfer fee	Date
15	G		Samuele Telesca	18	Youth system	9 July 2020

Coach

Nat.	Name	Age.	Previous team		Type	Ends	Date	Source
	Piero Bucchi	61	JuveCaserta		2 + 1 years	June 2021	4 March 2018	[24]

Competitions

Supercup

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Banco di Sardegna Sassari	6	4	2	563	484	+79	Advance to Final Four
2	Happy Casa Brindisi	6	4	2	528	470	+58
3	Carpegna Prosciutto Pesaro	6	4	2	498	435	+63
4	Virtus Roma	6	0	6	394	594	−200

Source: LegaBasket Serie A
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not be counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Serie A

This was the situation before the official withdrawal:

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD
12	Acqua S.Bernardo Cantù	9	3	6	695	760	−65
13	Germani Basket Brescia	10	3	7	768	804	−36
14	Allianz Pallacanestro Trieste	5	2	3	380	390	−10
15	Virtus Roma	9	2	7	674	789	−115
16	Fortitudo Lavoropiù Bologna	9	1	8	726	798	−72

Updated to match(es) played on 9 December 2020. Source:

References

1. "Toti: 'La mia decisione per permettere a Roma di avere ancora l'opportunità di partecipare alla A'" (in Italian). legabasket.it. 31 July 2020.
2. "LBA, Gandini sulla rinuncia della Virtus Roma: 'La grande passione di Claudio Toti non è bastata'" (in Italian). legabasket.it. 9 December 2020.
3. "Rinuncia Virtus Roma. Una nota della FIP" (in Italian). fip.it. 9 December 2020.
4. "Virtus Roma. Le decisioni del Giudice Sportivo Nazionale" (in Italian). fip.it. 10 December 2020.
5. "Luca Campogrande alla Virtus Roma" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 6 August 2020.
6. "La Virtus Roma ingaggia Riccardo Cervi" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 7 August 2020.
7. "Chris Evans alla Virtus Roma" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 10 August 2020.
8. "Gerald Robinson è un nuovo giocatore della Virtus Roma" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 11 August 2020.
9. "La Virtus Roma ingaggia Anthony Beane" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 12 August 2020.
10. "Ingaggiato Damir Hadzic" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 13 August 2020.
11. "Jamil Wilson alla Virtus Roma" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 18 August 2020.
12. "Ingaggiato Ygor Biordi" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 20 August 2020.
13. "Dario Hunt è il centro della Virtus Roma" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 25 August 2020.
14. "BENVENUTO AMAR!" (in Italian). virtus.it. 27 May 2020.
15. "Tomáš Kyzlink è il primo acquisto biancorosso" (in Italian). pallacanestroreggiana.it. 26 June 2020.
16. "Jaylen Barford agreed terms with Al Ettehad". eurobasket.com. 27 October 2020.
17. "2019-20 Player Contract Status". nbl.com.au. 7 July 2020.
18. "Welcome back! Giovanni Pini firma con la Tezenis Verona" (in Italian). scaligerabasket.it. 9 July 2020.
19. "הפורוורד/סנטר דבון ג'פרסון חתם במכבי חיפה עד לסיום עונת 2020-21" (in Hebrew). mhbasket.co.il. 3 November 2020.
20. "Daçka'ya hoş geldin William Buford!" (in Turkish). darussafakabasketbol.com. 9 October 2020.
21. "UFFICIALE A2 - Virtus Roma: in arrivo Tommaso Baldasso" (in Italian). pianetabasket.com. 13 July 2016.
22. "Rinnovato il contratto di Tommaso Baldasso" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 28 June 2019.
23. "Al via la stagione 2019-20 della Virtus Roma: domani alle 18 il primo allenamento". virtusroma.it (in Italian). Virtus Roma. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
24. "Piero Bucchi nuovo Head Coach della Virtus Roma" (in Italian). legapallacanestro.com. 4 March 2018.