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February 16, 2020 Reyer Venezia wins the first Italian Cup in its history by overcoming the Happy Casa Brindisi in the final, the surprise of the tournament, with the score 73-67. In the spectacular setting of Pesaro, the neutral field of the event capable of hosting over 30 thousand people in four days, the lagoon team first beat Virtus Bologna in the quarterfinals and then Olimpia Milano in the semifinal, triumphing in today's final.

The Italian Cup, since the year 2000, has been played in the top eight teams classified at the end of the first leg of the Italian basketball league (LBA) and Venice, due to a first part of the swinging season, had entered to be part of the lot of participants in the last available box. An eighth place in the championship that did not however reflect the real potential of the team coached by Walter De Raffaele, the president Casarin and the owner, Luigi Brugnaro, mayor of the Venetian city.

The conquest of the trophy relaunches Reyer's ambitions in defending the championship, in an increasingly balanced season.

The @ REYER1872 wins the first Italian Cup in its history and is the first ever to triumph starting from the eighth position. Congratulations to @HappycasaNBB for the great performances! 🇮🇹🏆👏🏻 # Italbasket pic.twitter.com/fnYx9mFyqa

- Italbasket (@Italbasket) February 16, 2020
During the final all the experience acquired in recent years by the Venetian team emerged, always ahead in scoring and capable of rejecting any recovery attempt from Brindisi, a fast, spectacular and well-trained team by coach Vitucci, capable of overcoming Sassari in the tournament , in the quarterfinals, and then Fortitudo Bologna, in the semifinal, but less used to playing games of this importance and caliber.

The beginning of the match tells well the tension experienced by the Apulian team, immediately under 15-2 in the first minutes with many wrong because of the tension generated by the stakes. A tear that was partially sewn up but that did not allow the people of Brindisi to overtake. Venice was masterfully led on the pitch by the Americans Watt, Daye and Chappell but, in the triple series of victories, the Italians Andrea De Nicolao and, above all, the son of art Stefano Tonut, elected best player of the tournament, also played a fundamental role . Venice also won the youth tournament, which was the setting for the big event, overcoming the rivals of Reggio Emilia in the final.