China News Service, Beijing, April 13th. The 2020-2021 season of the CBA League ended on the evening of the 13th in the final round (56th round) of the regular season. The Guangzhou team unexpectedly replaced the Beikong team and became the last team of the season to enter the post-season. The team of the match.
The 12 teams entering the playoffs are: Guangdong, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Xinjiang, Shandong, Qingdao, Guangsha, Shenzhen, Beijing, Jilin, Sichuan, and Guangzhou.
Beijing Enterprises, Shanghai, Shanxi, Fujian, Tianjin, Nanjing and Jiangsu, which ranked 13-19th, missed the playoffs and ended their CBA journey this season.
After entering the final stage of the regular season of this season, the Guangdong team won the regular season championship four rounds ahead of schedule, and locked in the semi-finals of the regular season with Liaoning, Zhejiang and Xinjiang.
The 11 teams that entered the playoffs were also announced one after another. Only the suspense of the final place in the playoffs was retained until the final round of the regular season.
When the last two rounds of the regular season were left, the last spot in the playoffs became the 12th and 13th ranked Beijing Control Team and the Guangzhou team.
At that time, the Guangzhou team was 2 wins behind the Beikong team, and there was little chance of qualifying. In the last two rounds, while the Guangzhou team won a full victory, the Beikong team also needed to lose in both games. The last two teams had equal points. Guangzhou The team can advance by relying on the advantages of the relationship between each other's victory and defeat.
In the last round of competitions, Beikong lost Liaoning and Guangzhou beat Jilin. The gap between the two sides narrowed to one win, and the Guangzhou team's hopes of qualifying greatly increased.
But as long as the Beijing Controls win or Guangzhou loses this round, the last playoff spot still belongs to the Beijing Controls.
The two key battles that determine the "destiny" of the two teams started at the same time on the evening of the 13th.
The Guangzhou team, which was the first to end the battle, defeated the Xinjiang team with an upset 105:94 and seized the opportunity of the team.
With the Beikong team losing to Qingdao team 99:106, the Guangzhou team finally turned its once sparse hope into reality. The points tied the Beikong team and replaced it to advance to the playoffs as 12th in the regular season.
The CBA playoffs will begin on April 16. The top four of the regular season have a bye in the first round and automatically enter the quarterfinals of the playoffs.
The 5-12th place in the regular season will fight each other in the first round and compete for the other four quarter-finals.
The first two rounds of the playoffs (12 in 8 and 8 in 4) are all life and death, and the semi-finals and finals will adopt a 3-match 2-win system.
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