Basketball Champions League

BCL MVP Race checkpoint lists five contenders

The league’s unofficial Season 11 feature includes Zoltan Perl, Ty Nichols and Adama Sanogo among its names to watch.

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The Basketball Champions League published its third Season 11 MVP Race checkpoint on November 6, 2026, presenting an unofficial selection of players to follow rather than a formal ranking.

The available section names Zoltan Perl, Ty Nichols, Bastien Vautier, Neftali Difuidi and Adama Sanogo, while discussing their teams’ records and individual contributions.

An explicitly unofficial race

The Basketball Champions League said the checkpoints are a guide to potential candidates for its Season MVP award, which is to be decided on the season’s final weekend in May. The feature says past winners reached the Final Four and played important roles in their teams’ runs, but it does not make the checkpoint an official ranking.

Its stated criteria include whether a player’s team has a winning record, how much he contributes to that success, his individual numbers and his ability to deliver in a decisive moment. The fifth question at this checkpoint is deliberately random, the league noted.

Five names in the available checkpoint

Perl, of Falco-Vulcano Szombathely, is listed at No. 10. The feature reports his team at 1-2 and highlights his BCL records for games with at least 20 points and consecutive games scoring at least 10, as well as his reaching 1,000 career points that week.

Ty Nichols is listed at No. 9 for Peristeri Betsson, whose record is given as 3-0. The feature also points to Jalen Finch as a significant partner, describing the two as a scoring and playmaking duo.

Surne Bilbao’s Bastien Vautier appears at No. 8, with Bilbao listed at 2-1. The article says he had played two games and gives his averages in those appearances as 18.0 points, 10.0 rebounds and 20.5 efficiency.

At No. 7, SIG Strasbourg’s Neftali Difuidi is associated with a 2-1 team record. The feature cites a game in which he recorded 23 points, eight rebounds, six assists, two steals and one block, and notes Strasbourg had seven players averaging an efficiency rating of at least 13.0.

Adama Sanogo of Hapoel Maoz Daniel Holon is listed at No. 6, with the team at 2-1. The available text gives his averages as 22.3 points and 8.0 rebounds, but ends before providing further detail.

A checkpoint, not a result

The feature is a mid-season discussion of MVP candidates, not a report of a completed game or a confirmed award outcome. Its supplied section does not identify an MVP leader or provide the remainder of the checkpoint.