2019–20 BCL Americas

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. It was also the 21st season of Pan-American top-level competition, as well as the 58th season of South American top-level competition.

Basketball Champions League Americas
The Antel Arena in Montevideo hosted the final
Season	2019–20
Dates	28 October 2019 – 30 October 2020
Number of games	40
Number of teams	12
Regular season
Season MVP	Brandon Robinson (Quimsa)
Finals
Champions	Quimsa (1st title)
Runners-up	Flamengo
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The competition began on 28 October 2019, with the group phase, 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. The competition resumed on 27 October 2020 with an altered format, including a single-match final in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 30 October 2020.

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. As champions, Quimsa qualified for the 2021 FIBA Intercontinental Cup.

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.

Teams

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

Group phase

San LorenzoLDA (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.

Phase	Round	Dates
Group phase	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)

Group phase

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 phase 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			92–97	—	77–64
3	Capitanes	4	1	3	335	364	−29	5			89–95	97–93	—

Source: BCL Americas
Notes:

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	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
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	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Quimsa	2–1	San Lorenzo	91–84	87–100	110–97 (OT)
Flamengo	2–0	Instituto	63–54	66–64

Final

Main article: 2020 BCL Americas Final

Quimsa v Flamengo

30 October 2020 (2020-10-30)	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	Boxscore	Pts: Marquinhos 20 Rebs: three players 6 Asts: Balbi 5	Arena: Antel Arena Attendance: 0 Referees: Andrés Bartel (URU), Gonzalo Salgueiro (URU), Carlos Peralta (ECU)

Statistics

The following were the statistical leaders in the 2019–20 BCL Americas season.

Individual statistic leaders

Category	Player	Team(s)	Statistic
Efficiency per game	Danilo Fuzaro	Mogi das Cruzes	22.0
Points per game	Dwayne Davis	Instituto ACC	23.0
Rebounds per game	Alexandre De Sousa	Mogi das Cruzes	8.8
Assists per game	Franco Balbi	Flamengo	6.4
Steals per game	Juan Brussino	Quimsa	2.0
Blocks per game	Bartel Lopez	Real Estelí	1.9
Turnovers per game	Brandon Robinson	Quimsa	3.1
Minutes per game	Danilo Fuzaro	Mogi das Cruzes	35.1
FG%	Ismael Romero	Quimsa	65.2%
3P%	David Jackson	Franca	57.6%

Individual game highs

Category	Player	Team	Statistic
Efficiency	Dar Tucker	San Lorenzo	37
Points	Omar de Haro	Fuerza Regia	38
Rebounds	Josh Ibarra	Fuerza Regia	14
	Storm Warren	Biguá
Assists	Franco Balbi	Flamengo	12
Steals	Michael Lizárraga	Fuerza Regia	6
Blocks	Justin Williams	San Lorenzo	4
	Sam Clancy	Instituto ACC
Three pointers	Omar de Haro	Fuerza Regia	8