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The final competition of the 2023-2024 Women's Professional Basketball Association is fierce, with six to seven games left for each team until the end of the season. In particular, the fight between Bucheon Hana One-Q and Incheon Shinhan Bank over fourth place, the Maginot Line that can rise in the playoffs, is the biggest box office card that will be responsible for the second half of the women's professional basketball season.

As of the 6th, KB (21 wins and 2 losses) is leading the women's professional basketball standings, followed by Asan Woori Bank (18 wins and 5 losses) and Yongin Samsung Life Insurance (12 wins and 12 losses). As Samsung Life Insurance defeated Woori Bank and returned to the 50% winning rate after extra time on the 5th, and at the same time widened the gap with fourth-place Hana One Q (8 wins and 15 losses) to 3.5 games, the competition for the first and third place is virtually over.

What's left is one spot in the fourth place. Until the middle of the season, Hana OneQ's fourth place was certain, but after the All-Star break, Shinhan Bank continued to chase after the bank. Shinhan Bank, which had only two wins and 14 losses before the All-Star break, won five wins and two losses to overcome Woori Bank in the second half, narrowing the gap with Hana OneQ to one game with seven wins and 16 losses.

The important thing is that the two teams still have two showdowns left. After facing off in Incheon on the 12th, they will have a final showdown in Bucheon on the 26th.

The two teams have three wins and one loss against each other, giving Hana One-Q the upper hand. If Shinhan Bank catches both games, it will have the same record of three wins and three losses, and in this case, it has to be ranked by a difference of gains and losses. However, it is not easy to reverse Hana One-Q as it already has 50 points ahead of Shinhan Bank. From Shinhan Bank's point of view, it must outpace Hana One-Q in the rankings to advance to the playoffs.

Given that both teams are desperate for the playoffs, the remaining games are expected to be even fiercer. Hana OneQ, which was founded in the 2012-2013 season, has no record of advancing to the playoffs. The team advanced to the playoffs as the second place (20-15) in the regular league in the 2015-2016 season, but all records for this season were deleted due to the Chelsea Lee crisis, which hit the women's professional basketball league. In the 2019-2020 season, they cruised to third place, but unfortunately did not make the playoffs due to the early end of the season due to the aftermath of COVID-19.

Shinhan Bank, which reached the playoffs in fourth place last season, is also hoping to advance to the playoffs by uniting with the determination to reverse the weak assessment before the season. Although many players lost early in the season, young players who got a chance amid the defeat are clearly growing, and their performance is getting better day by day.