The knock-out tour­na­ment of the Mack­e­son Su­per 10 Bas­ket­ball League will com­mence with three match­es in the pre­lim­i­nary round at the Mal­oney In­door Sports Com­plex, to­mor­row. All teams which fin­ished in the bot­tom six places in the 11 team stand­ings will be in ac­tion, be­gin­ning from 4.30 pm. In the first match, Na­tion­al Flour Mills which fin­ished the league cam­paign in a dis­ap­point­ing sixth poi­si­tion will take on the last place team Po­lice Sports Club which fin­ished all of its ten match­es with­out a sin­gle win. The win­ning team face De­fence Force in the first quar­ter­fi­nal match on Mon­day. Sev­enth place Min­istry of Sport Schoolaz will then play its first ever knock-out fix­ture, when it takes on sec­ond to last Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T at 6 pm. The team which comes out on top will meet for­mer cham­pi­ons De­tour Shak At­tack on Tues­day.

In the fi­nal first round match, eighth placed Mal­oney Pac­ers will chal­lenge Va­len­cia Heat. Pac­ers got the bet­ter of Heat 71-64, the last time the two met dur­ing the league cam­paign. The pro­gress­ing team will meet league top­pers San­do Petro Jazz in the last quar­ter­fi­nal next Fri­day. The oth­er quar­ter­fi­nal will be be­tween Cale­do­nia Clip­pers and Diego Mar­tin All Stars which both pro­gressed to the fi­nal eight round af­ter fin­ish­ing in the top six, on Thurs­day. League win­ners San­do Petro Jazz, De­tour Shak At­tack, De­fence Force were the oth­er teams to qual­i­fy for the quar­ter­fi­nal au­to­mat­i­cal­ly for fin­ish­ing in the re­spec­tive top three po­si­tions.