2022 BCL Americas Final

2022 BCL Americas Final

Event	2021–22 BCL Americas
São Paulo Biguá (8–0) (7–1) 98 84 Head coach: Bruno Mortari Head coach: Diego Gutierrez
1 2 3 4 Total São Paulo 30 27 27 14 98 Biguá 26 21 13 24 84
Date	9 April 2022
Venue	Arena Carioca 1, Rio de Janeiro
MVP	Bruno Caboclo
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The 2022 BCL Americas Final was the final game of the 2021–22 BCL Americas, the 3rd season of the league under its new entity and the 15th of the Pan-American premier basketball league organised by FIBA. It was played at the Arena Carioca 1 in Rio de Janeiro on 9 April 2022. The game was played between Brazilian club São Paulo and the Uruguayan club Biguá.

São Paulo won its first-ever continental title, just 4 years after the resurrection of the club's basketball section.^[1] Bruno Caboclo was the team's key player and won the league's MVP award.^[2]

Teams[edit]

In the following table, finals until 2020 were in the FIBA Americas League and South American Championship eras.

Team	Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners)
São Paulo	None
Biguá	1 (1992)

Road to the final[edit]

São Paulo		Round	Biguá
Opponent	Result	Group phase	Opponent	Result
Nacional	98–73 (Santiago del Estero)	Gameday 1	Minas	73–95 (Belo Horizonte)
Quimsa	83–74 (Santiago del Estero)	Gameday 2	Obras Sanitarias	95–84 (Belo Horizonte)
Nacional	89–73 (Montevideo)	Gameday 3	Obras Sanitarias	92–81 (H)
Quimsa	86–69 (Montevideo)	Gameday 4	Minas	96–91 (H)
Quimsa	95–73 (H)	Gameday 5	Minas	73–62 (Buenos Aires)
Nacional	101–81 (H)	Gameday 6	Obras Sanitarias	77–96 (Buenos Aires)
Group B first place Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1 São Paulo 6 12 2 Quimsa 6 8 3 Nacional 6 7 Source: BCL Americas		Group phase	Group D first place Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1 Biguá 6 10 2 Minas 6 9 3 Obras Sanitarias 6 8 Source: BCL Americas
Opponent	Result	Playoffs	Opponent	Result
Real Estelí	75–71	Quarterfinals	Boca Juniors	99–81
Minas	93–79	Semifinals	Quimsa	98–91

• (H): Home game
• (A): Away game
• (N): Neutral venue

Game details[edit]

São Paulo v Biguá

13 April 2021 (2021-04-13)	São Paulo	98–84	Biguá	Rio de Janeiro
19:10 GMT–6	Scoring by quarter: 30–26, 27–21, 27–13, 14–24
	Pts: Caboclo 29 Rebs: Bennett 8 Asts: Elinho 12	Boxscore	Pts: Rudd 20 Rebs: Rudd 9 Asts: Vidal 9	Arena: Carioca Arena 1 Referees: Jorge Vásquez (Puerto Rico), Julio Anaya (Panama), Juan Fernández (Argentina)

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 5 Elinho 16 4 12 SG 3 Corderro Bennett 17 8 1 SF 11 Marquinhos 16 6 6 PF 0 Tyrone Curnell 10 4 1 C 50 Bruno Caboclo 29 7 0 Reserves: SF 4 Alex Dória DNP SF 7 Isaac 2 1 1 SG 8 Shamell Stallworth 0 0 0 PG 10 Henrique Coelho 5 3 1 PG 18 Luiz Dos Santos DNP C 92 Lucas Nogueira 3 2 2 Head coach: Bruno Mortari

São Paulo Biguá 0 São Paulo Statistics Biguá 37/68 (54%) 2-pt field goals 29/70 (41%) 18/35 (51%) 3-pt field goals 13/30 (43%) 6/7 (86%) Free throws 13/19 (68%) 6 Offensive rebounds 13 32 Defensive rebounds 24 38 Total rebounds 37 24 Assists 22 12 Turnovers 10 8 Steals 8 8 Blocks 3 18 Fouls 6 2022 BCL Americas champions São Paulo 1st league title 1st continental title

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 4 Santiago Vidal 16 7 9 SG 8 Donald Sims 17 3 3 SF 7 Iván Loriente Pérez 3 6 2 PF 1 Victor Rudd 20 9 2 C 23 Luis Santos 19 7 1 Reserves: PG 13 Hernan Alvarez Plaz 0 0 0 SF 15 Nicolas Andreolli 0 0 2 C 21 Guillermo Feijo Martinez DNP PG 25 Diego Pena Garcia 0 0 1 PG 26 Manuel Saaverda Xifre 1 0 1 G 31 Alex Lopez Suberbie 3 0 0 F 42 Martin Rojas 5 3 2 Head coach: Diego Gutierrez

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