Women’s Basketball KB Wins 3rd Straight Win Over Hana One Q
Cheongju KB, a women’s professional basketball team, finished the semifinal playoffs (3 wins out of 5) with 3 consecutive wins and advanced to the championship game first.
KB defeated Bucheon Hana One Q 77-64 in the third round away game of the Woori Bank Woori WON 2023-2024 Women’s Professional Basketball Playoff (PO) held at Bucheon Gymnasium in Gyeonggi-do on the 13th.
KB, which passed the semifinals with 3 consecutive wins, will meet the semifinal PO winners of Asan Woori Bank and Yongin Samsung Life Insurance in the championship match (3 wins out of 5) starting on the 24th. 파워볼게임
Woori Bank and Samsung Life Insurance are facing each other with 1 win and 1 loss until the second game.
Cheongju KB
Even if this series ends in Game 4, it will end on the 16th,
so KB will be able to play the championship match in a situation where it has a physical advantage regardless of who the opponent is.
This is the first time KB has advanced to the championship game two years since the 2021-2022 season,
in which it swept the regular league and championship game.
Last season, they failed to advance to the semifinals.
KB finished the first quarter on this day with the score tied at 14-14 and started with an 8-point lead in the 3rd quarter,
but gave up 3 points in a row to Hana One Q’s Kim Si-on and Jeong Ye-rim, falling behind by 2 points.
With 4 minutes remaining in the third quarter, when KB was ahead 40-35,
Hana 1Q veteran Kim Jong-un got two free throws but missed them all.
On the contrary, Cheongju KB did not lose control of the game by combining Park Ji-soo’s scoring and Kim Min-jung’s three-point play to run away with a 45-35 lead.
Hana One Q
Hana One Q chased again with 3-pointers from Jeong Ye-rim and Shin Ji-hyun,
but KB widened the lead to 54-41 with Kang I-seul completing another 3-point play 21 seconds
before the end of the third quarter.
In the first attack of the fourth quarter, KB widened the gap to 57-41 with Heo Ye-eun’s 3-pointer,
and showed an absolute advantage in all 9 games against Hana One Q this season,
including the regular league and playoffs.
KB Park Ji-soo achieved a double-double with 25 points and 12 rebounds,
and Kang Iseul also contributed from the outside with 21 points.
Hana 1Q, which made it to the playoffs for the first time since the team was founded in 2012,
played hard with Jeong Ye-rim scoring 20 points and Kim Jong-un scoring 14 points,
but after a short ‘spring basketball’, they will look forward to next season.