Toko Shengelia in the Top 10 in Virtus Bologna history
Game 1 of the LBA Finals Unipol 2025 is Virtus Segafredo Bologna’s that overcame Germani Brescia with a score of 90-87.
Coach Ivanovic’s lineup closes the first game of its run in the LBA Playoffs Unipol 2025 with rating above 100. In the previous 9 games played, the record had been 95 rating in Game 5 of the quarters against Umana Reyer Venezia. Bologna’s regular season scoring average was 102.3, while in the playoffs it was traveling (before the LBA Finals) with an average of 87.1.
Tornik’e Shengelia, MVP of Game 1, finished with 29 points scored in 29 minutes of play with 12/14 from two-point range and 37 rating. The latter figure equals the Bologna winger’s best Serie A performance made this season in the game against Treviso on Day 25.
In the history of LBA Finals played by the Black Vs, Shengelia’s 37 rating equals the second best overall, also signed by Sasha Danilovic against Pesaro in 1994 and against Treviso in 1995 and by Renato Villalta in 1979 against Milano. The record always belongs to the Serbian wing, author of a 44 in Game 5 of the 1994 LBA Finals against Scavolini Pesaro.
The 29 points scored by Shengelia enter the top ten best performances by a player in a Virtus jersey in the Scudetto Finals. Below is the ranking of the top 10 statistical performances:
– Pedrag Danilovic’s 40 points in Game 3 of Bologna – Treviso’s 1995
– Jim McMillian’s 37 points in Cantù’s Game 2 – Bologna’s 1980
– 33 points by Gianni Bertolotti in Game 1 of Varese – Bologna in 1977
– Pedrag Danilovic’s 33 points in Game 3 of Bologna – Pesaro in 1994
– Pedrag Danilovic’s 33 points in Game 5 of Bologna – Pesaro in 1994
– 32 points by Renato Villalta in Game 2 of Milan – Bologna in 1979
– 30 points by Pedrag Danilovic in Game 2 of Fortitudo Bologna – Virtus Bologna in 1998
– 29 points by Tornik’and Shengelia in Game 1 of Bologna – Brescia of 2025
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– 29 points by Marco Bonamico in Game 3 of Cantù – Bologna of 1981
– 29 points by Pedrag Danilovic in Game 2 of Pesaro – Bologna in 1994
