A-League was officially opened at Tbilisi Olympic Palace on January 15, 2019. Five teams, together with CIU Basketball club, will struggle to move to the Super League during the last three months.
Six teams will play with each other in two circles and top four teams, remaining in A-League, will move to playoff.
In the first round of A-League CIU basketball club played against Tbilisi. The basketball players, trained by Serb specialist- Boian Salatich, played really well, they left no chance to the opponents and ended all four quarters of the game with their advantage. (22:19; 31-20; 20-9; 20-14)
The game eventually ended with the score 93:61and CIU won. American legionnaire – Wendell Louis scored twenty points for the team. Nika Ghonghadze scored eight rebounds and Beka Tsivtsivadze had six passes throughout the game.
The game was attended by CIU Administration, students and other interested individuals.
We would like to remind you that a memorandum of mutual collaboration was signed between Mr. Viktor Sanikidze, the former member of Georgian National Basketball Team, a successful veteran basketball player of Euro-League and the university at Caucasus International University Conference Hall on December 28, 2018. The team members have been changed for this purpose: Experienced Georgian and foreign basketball players will play alongside CIU students.
CIU team won the place in A-League, after winning the qualifying round last year and finished the debut season on the fourth place. CIU basketball club will continue playing from this league with a new management and will struggle in order to get to Super League.
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