Virtus Bologna, a record-breaking victory

Virtus Bologna, numbers

Crushing 61-100 victory for Virtus Segafredo Bologna at Palaverde against NutriBullet Treviso in the postponement of the 19th day. The 39-point spread is the third-highest performance ever in an away game for Virtus Bologna in the league.

To find two better performances one has to go back to the 1962/63 season when the’then Knorr Bologna won in Rome by a score of 32-74 (+42). Even wider was the gap in the 1959/60 season contest when Oransoda Bologna in the derby against Sant’Agostino Bologna scored 91 points against the 46 of the hosts (+45).

The performance in recent times that comes closest to Monday’s performance by Virtus è the 2021/22 season game also played in Treviso and won by Bologna by a 37-point margin (76-113) Bologna signed its best two-point performance since the complete statistical survey exists (1987/88), as against Treviso it signed a 33/39 from inside the arc (84.6%). 

Only one lineup è turns out to do better as a two-point percentage and è that was Fortitudo Bologna in the 1998/99 season, able in the game against Siena to close with 21 baskets from two scored on 24 attempts (87.5%). Thanks to this super two-point performance, Bologna also signed the best total shooting percentage of the season (69.5%, surpassed the 64.9% signed by Scafati on day 13 against Brindisi