{"id":939,"date":"2026-03-26T00:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=939"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:04:53","slug":"basketball-queens-cup-preview-matches-and-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Queen&#8217;s Cup: preview, matches and teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Hozono  Global Jairis<\/strong> defends the title <strong>Queen&#8217;s Cup<\/strong> <strong>basketball<\/strong> in a new edition of the tournament that takes place from March 26 to 29, in a format similar to that of previous seasons with <strong>five different champions in the last five years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spar Girona<\/strong> in 2021, <strong>Avenida Perfumeries<\/strong> in 2022, <strong>Zaragoza Basket<\/strong> in 2023, and <strong>Valencia Basket<\/strong> in 2024, they are four of the five different champions of an unpredictable and open competition that takes place in e<strong>l Sports Palace Catalonia (Tarragona) <\/strong>in the traditional format with eight teams competing for the title in four days.<\/p>\n<p>The competition starts on Thursday with the first two duels of<strong> quarterfinals: Casademont Zaragoza vs IDK Euskotren<\/strong>y <strong>Valencia Basket against Dur\u00e1n Maquinaria Ensino<\/strong>; <strong>Hozono GlobalJairis<\/strong> It is measured on Friday <strong>Innova TSN Leganes<\/strong>while <strong>Spar Girona and Avenida Perfumeries<\/strong> They close the quarterfinals in an early final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Casademont Zaragoza<\/strong>leader of the League, puts his <strong>favorite status<\/strong> against IDK Euskotren, with the last precedent of the Aragonese victory a month ago in the League by 63-73. For its part, Valencia Basket faces its eighth participation with a <strong>Ensino Lugo who was runner-up in 1999 and 2002<\/strong>and seeks in Tarragona to confirm its good performance last weekend in the League where it was about to surprise Perfumer\u00edas Avenida in Salamanca.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<h2 class=\"ladillo\">Spar Girona vs. Perfumeries, star duel of the quarterfinals<\/h2>\n<p>The duel<strong> Spa Giron\u00eda and Perfumer\u00edas Aveni<\/strong>da, second and fourth classified in the Endesa Women&#8217;s League is without a doubt the <strong>star showdown <\/strong>of the Queen&#8217;s Cup, whose winner will meet in the semifinals with the winner of Jairis-Legan\u00e9s, which<strong> could throw,<\/strong> In the event of victory for Perfumer\u00edas Avenida, the<strong> reissue of the 2025 final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both teams arrive after victories in the Endesa League, the Catalans on the Valencia Basket court (71-74), and the Salamanca players at home against Dur\u00e1n Maquinaria Ensino (66-63).<\/p>\n<p>For its part, the Alcantarilla team, which will be accompanied by 400 fans in its duel against Innova TSN Legan\u00e9s from Madrid, lost this Sunday precisely against its rival cup holder, for <strong>73-71 in the Endesa Women&#8217;s League<\/strong>so he has an opportunity to exact revenge.<\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"detail info\">\n<header>\n<h2>\n                        <strong>Schedules and confrontations<\/strong><br \/>\n                    <\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Quarter finals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(1) Casademont Girona &#8211; IDK Euskotren &#8211; Thursday 03\/26\/26 (6:00 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p>(2) Valencia Basket (3) &#8211; Dur\u00e1n M. Ensino &#8211; Thursday 03\/26\/26 (8:30 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p>(3) Hozono Jairis &#8211; Innova Legan\u00e9s &#8211; Friday 03\/27\/26 (6:45 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p>(4) Spar Girona &#8211; Perfumer\u00edas Avenida &#8211; Friday 03\/27\/26 (9:30 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semifinals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winner (1) &#8211; Winner (2) &#8211; Saturday 03\/28\/26 (5:30 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p>Winner (3) &#8211; Winner (4) &#8211; Saturday 03\/28\/26 (8:00 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Semifinal winners &#8211; Sunday 03\/29\/26 (6:00 p.m.)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hozono Global Jairis defends the title Queen&#8217;s Cup basketball in a new edition of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}