Basket Ravenna Piero Manetti, also known as Orasì Ravenna (after its title sponsor), is a

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Italian basketball team based in

Ravenna Ravenna ( , , also ; rgn, Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476. It then served as the cap ...

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. Its colors are red and yellow and they are commonly referred as Leoni Bizantini (Byzantine Lions) because of the coat of arms of the city.

History

Originally founded in 1984 and named Basket Ravenna Piero Manetti, it gained access to "Divisione Nazionale A Silver" during the 2012-2013 season. In the very same year, Basket Ravenna won its first cup, the ''Coppa Italia DNB''. During the 2016-2017

season, the team, guided by coach Antimo Martino, ends the regular season in 4th position and consequentially enters -for the first time in its history- the playoff. At the first round, the team overcomes Virtus Roma in a tough series won 3-1. At the quarter-finals, again Basket Ravenna successes against Scaligera Basket Verona in a hostile arena, winning the series for 3-0. The winning strike ends in semi-finals by the hands of the

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(that lately will win the playoff, reaching

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. During the 2017-2018

season, Antimo Martino leads the team to the Coppa Italia finals, but fails to reach the playoff, ending the season in 9th place. In June 2018, president Roberto Vianello announces Andrea Mazzon as the new head coach and Julio Trovato as the new general manager.

Colors and symbol

Team colors are red and yellow. Home shirt is completely white with red collar, while the away shirt is completely red.

Arena

Basket Ravenna Piero Manetti used to play its home matches in the PalaCosta in

until 2014-2015 season, when society chose the more capacious Pala De André.

Chronicle

2017-2018 roster

Depth chart

''Updated to August 25th 2017.''

Staff

Notable players

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(born 1992), basketball player for

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in the

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References

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External links

Basket Ravenna
- Official site Basketball teams in Emilia-Romagna Basketball teams established in 1984 Ravenna