Both out of the Final 8 of the Italian Cup and for the moment out of the Scudetto playoffs. Tomorrow at 7pm Tortona and Dinamo will look for the victory that will restore tone to a season that has so far fallen short of expectations, as demonstrated by the fact that both have changed coaches. The Piedmontese team divorced Ramondino after five seasons and called De Raffaele, the historic coach of Venice, while Sassari separated from Bucchi who had arrived two championships ago and relied on the Bosnian Markovic.

In the standings, Tortona has a 2-point lead over the blue and whites and starts from +20 from the first leg (94-74), a match which they dominated starting from the second quarter. Watch out for the former Dowe, protagonist last year of a comeback championship that took Banco di Sardegna to the championship semi-final.

So far, Dinamo has always or almost always failed away: eight defeats and only one coup, in Pesaro, which immediately afterwards changed coach and called the former blue and white player Meo Sacchetti, who just 10 years ago won the first historic Italian Cup for Sassari, opening a winning cycle. Times have changed and perhaps the Sassari team is no longer a podium team, but it still wants to get the championship playoffs and to do so it must start the comeback by beating Tortona.

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