2024 T1 League finals

The 2024 T1 League finals was the championship series of the T1 League's 2023–24 season and conclusion of the season's playoffs. The best-of-seven final series was played by the winners of the semifinals series.^[1][2] The finals series started on May 24 and ended on June 7.^[3][4] The series was matched by Taiwan Beer Leopards and Taipei Mars.^[5] On June 1, the Taiwan Beer Leopards defeated the Taipei Mars, 4–0, winning the 2023–24 season championship.^[4] DeMarcus Cousins of the Taiwan Beer Leopards was named the Finals MVP.^[6]

2024 T1 League finals

Team Coach Wins Taiwan Beer Leopards Charles Dubé-Brais 4 Taipei Mars Hsu Hao-Cheng 0
Dates	May 24 – June 1, 2024
MVP	DeMarcus Cousins (Taiwan Beer Leopards)
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Bracket

	Semifinals					Finals
	1	New Taipei CTBC DEA	2
	4	Taipei Mars	3
						4	Taipei Mars	0
						2	Taiwan Beer Leopards	4
	2	Taiwan Beer Leopards	3
	3	Kaohsiung Aquas	0

Bold: series winner
Italic: team with home-court advantage

Background

Taiwan Beer Leopards

Main article: 2023–24 Taiwan Beer Leopards season

Taipei Mars

Main article: 2023–24 Taipei Mars season

Road to the finals

Further information: 2023–24 T1 League season and 2024 T1 League playoffs

Taiwan Beer Leopards (2nd seed)			Taipei Mars (4th seed)
Team GP W L PCT GB New Taipei CTBC DEA 28 19 9 .679 — Taiwan Beer Leopards 28 18 10 .643 1 Kaohsiung Aquas 28 15 13 .536 4 Taipei Mars 28 11 17 .393 8 Tainan TSG GhostHawks 28 7 21 .250 12	Regular season		Team GP W L PCT GB New Taipei CTBC DEA 28 19 9 .679 — Taiwan Beer Leopards 28 18 10 .643 1 Kaohsiung Aquas 28 15 13 .536 4 Taipei Mars 28 11 17 .393 8 Tainan TSG GhostHawks 28 7 21 .250 12
Defeated the 3rd seed Kaohsiung Aquas, 3–0	Semifinals		Defeated the 1st seed New Taipei CTBC DEA, 3–2

Regular season series

The Leopards won 4–3 in the regular-season series.

November 19, 2023

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Taipei Mars

99–102

Taiwan Beer Leopards

Taoyuan Arena, Taoyuan City

December 2, 2023

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Taipei Mars

111–104

Taiwan Beer Leopards

Taoyuan Arena, Taoyuan City

December 24, 2023

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Taiwan Beer Leopards

109–102

Taipei Mars

Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium, Taipei City

December 31, 2023

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Taiwan Beer Leopards

120–113

Taipei Mars

Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium, Taipei City

March 24, 2024

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Taiwan Beer Leopards

96–126

Taipei Mars

Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium, Taipei City

April 20, 2024

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Taipei Mars

96–101

Taiwan Beer Leopards

Taoyuan Arena, Taoyuan City

April 21, 2024

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Taipei Mars

91–79

Taiwan Beer Leopards

Taoyuan Arena, Taoyuan City

Series summary

Game	Date	Away Team	Result	Home Team
Game 1	May 24	Taipei Mars	101–106 (0–1)	Taiwan Beer Leopards
Game 2	May 26	Taipei Mars	107–112 (0–2)	Taiwan Beer Leopards
Game 3	May 30	Taiwan Beer Leopards	94–79 (3–0)	Taipei Mars
Game 4	June 1	Taiwan Beer Leopards	108–80 (4–0)	Taipei Mars

Game summaries

Game 1

VL Sports ELTA TV

May 24, 2024 19:00 (UTC+8)

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Taipei Mars	101–106	Taiwan Beer Leopards
Scoring by quarter: 25–36, 33–19, 25–28, 18–23
Pts: Lin Ping-Sheng 25 Rebs: Koreniuk 12 Asts: Chen Wen-Hung, Ndoye 5		Pts: Cousins, Kromah 30 Rebs: Cousins 15 Asts: Kromah 7
Leopards leads series, 1–0 [7]

Taoyuan Arena, Taoyuan City Attendance: 5,019 Referees: Ho Chang-Jen, Lai Chien-Hao, Huang Po-Wei

Game 2

VL Sports ELTA TV

May 26, 2024 14:00 (UTC+8)

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Taipei Mars	107–112	Taiwan Beer Leopards
Scoring by quarter: 32–19, 22–30, 20–26, 33–37
Pts: Lin Ping-Sheng 38 Rebs: Johnson 15 Asts: Lin Ping-Sheng 8		Pts: Gao Jin-Wei, Cousins 27 Rebs: Cousins 12 Asts: Chiang Yu-An, Kromah 4
Leopards leads series, 2–0 [8]

Taoyuan Arena, Taoyuan City Attendance: 6,869 Referees: Yu Jung, Lan Wei-Hsiung, Hsieh Shang-Chien

Game 3

VL Sports ELTA TV

May 30, 2024 19:00 (UTC+8)

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Taiwan Beer Leopards	94–79	Taipei Mars
Scoring by quarter: 33–18, 19–20, 26–16, 16–25
Pts: Chiang Yu-An, Kromah 21 Rebs: Cousins 15 Asts: Kromah 7		Pts: Lin Ping-Sheng 24 Rebs: Johnson 12 Asts: Johnson 7
Leopards leads series, 3–0 [9]

Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium, Taipei City Attendance: 3,754 Referees: Lin Chien-Hung, Chuang Chih-Chun, Lai Chien-Hao

Game 4

VL Sports ELTA TV

June 1, 2024 14:00 (UTC+8)

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Taiwan Beer Leopards	108–80	Taipei Mars
Scoring by quarter: 27–26, 28–17, 20–23, 33–14
Pts: Kromah 36 Rebs: Cousins 24 Asts: Gao Jin-Wei 7		Pts: Johnson 30 Rebs: Johnson 14 Asts: Johnson, Tsao Xun-Xiang 5
Leopards wins T1 League finals, 4–0 [4]

Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium, Taipei City Attendance: 5,000 Referees: Yu Jung, Ho Chang-Jen, Hsieh Shang-Chien

Rosters

Taiwan Beer Leopards

2023–24 Taiwan Beer Leopards roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age From G 0 Chen Hsiao-Jung 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 70 kg (154 lb) 25 – (1999-11-06)6 November 1999 NTUST PG 1 Cheng Wei (C) 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 34 – (1991-01-08)8 January 1991 USC G 5 Gao Jin-Wei 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) 66 kg (146 lb) 24 – (2000-10-23)23 October 2000 UCH SG 7 Lu Chieh-Min 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 30 – (1995-10-12)12 October 1995 FJU SF 10 Chu I-Tsung 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 39 – (1986-08-04)4 August 1986 HWU F 12 Lin Sin-Kuan 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 97 kg (214 lb) 23 – (2002-05-09)9 May 2002 NTNU F 13 DeAndre Williams (I) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 93 kg (205 lb) 29 – (1996-10-04)4 October 1996 Memphis PG 14 Chiang Yu-An 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) 65 kg (143 lb) 34 – (1991-08-04)4 August 1991 NTUS C 15 DeMarcus Cousins (I) 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 122 kg (269 lb) 35 – (1990-08-13)13 August 1990 Kentucky SF 24 Lasan Kromah (I) 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 91 kg (201 lb) 34 – (1991-06-24)24 June 1991 UConn SG 27 Huang Jhen 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 35 – (1990-06-27)27 June 1990 FJU C 32 Wu Pei-Chia 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 26 – (1999-09-27)27 September 1999 SHU PF 41 Devin Williams (I) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 122 kg (269 lb) 31 – (1994-05-31)31 May 1994 West Virginia SG 75 Lee Chi-Wei 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 87 kg (192 lb) 32 – (1993-04-08)8 April 1993 MDU C 82 Liu Yuan-Kai 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 105 kg (231 lb) 34 – (1991-07-09)9 July 1991 FJU	Head coach Charles Dubé-Brais Assistant coach(es) Jeffrey Dosado Liu Wen-He Strength & conditioning coach(es) Chen Tzu-Yi Chen Ting-Wei Athletic trainer(s) Chen Wei-Chih Cheng Po-Wei Legend (C) Team captain (I) Import player Injured Roster Updated: May 10, 2024

Taipei Mars

2023–24 Taipei Mars roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age From SG 0 Lin Ping-Sheng 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 77 kg (170 lb) 28 – (1996-12-26)26 December 1996 CCU PG 3 Ting Sheng-Ju 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) 75 kg (165 lb) 27 – (1998-08-22)22 August 1998 St. Francis PG 5 Lin Li 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 81 kg (179 lb) 24 – (2001-06-20)20 June 2001 NCCU PF 7 Liu Yen-Ting 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 96 kg (212 lb) 25 – (2000-01-17)17 January 2000 OCU SF 8 Chen Wen-Hung 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 98 kg (216 lb) 34 – (1991-07-14)14 July 1991 NTSU PF 9 Chang Chao-Chen 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 97 kg (214 lb) 25 – (2000-09-02)2 September 2000 NTNU C 10 Jaylen Johnson (I) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 104 kg (229 lb) 29 – (1996-08-07)7 August 1996 Louisville SF 11 Huang Tsung-Han 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 96 kg (212 lb) 31 – (1994-07-07)7 July 1994 MDU PF 12 Lin Yi-Huei (C) 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 39 – (1986-03-24)24 March 1986 NTNU F 15 Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson (I) 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 98 kg (216 lb) 34 – (1991-06-26)26 June 1991 Temple C 20 Sun Szu-Yao 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 105 kg (231 lb) 28 – (1997-10-03)3 October 1997 NYIT SG 24 Hsu Ching-En 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 24 – (2001-07-11)11 July 2001 NTNU SG 29 Chang Keng-Yu 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 30 – (1995-10-16)16 October 1995 NTUS C 30 Vladyslav Koreniuk (I) 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) 123 kg (271 lb) 31 – (1994-01-08)8 January 1994 Ukraine C 35 Youssou Ndoye (I) 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) 113 kg (249 lb) 34 – (1991-07-15)15 July 1991 St. Bonaventure SG 57 Tsao Xun-Xiang 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) 81 kg (179 lb) 26 – (1999-03-16)16 March 1999 NTUA	Head coach Hsu Hao-Cheng (interim) Assistant coach(es) Peng Te-Hsuan Ni Hsueh-Chien Milan Stevanovic Strength & conditioning coach(es) Chen Hung-Lin Chiang Cheng-Han Athletic trainer(s) Chien Shao-Fu Guan Yen-Lin Team manager Lin You-Ting Legend (C) Team captain (I) Import player Injured Roster Updated: May 5, 2024

Player statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	MPG	Minutes per game	FG%	Field goal percentage
3P%	3-point field goal percentage	FT%	Free throw percentage	RPG	Rebounds per game
APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game	BPG	Blocks per game
PPG	Points per game		Finals MVP

Taiwan Beer Leopards

Player	GP	MPG	PPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG
Chen Hsiao-Jung	2	3:08	1.5	0.0%	0.0%	75.0%	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cheng Wei	2	2:15	0.5	0.0%	0.0%	50.0%	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Gao Jin-Wei	4	35:11	16.8	49.0%	33.3%	91.7%	4.5	3.5	2.0	0.0
Lu Chieh-Min	2	1:45	0.0	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Chu I-Tsung	1	3:41	2.0	50.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lin Sin-Kuan	4	27:30	5.0	36.4%	30.8%	0.0%	4.3	0.5	0.0	0.0
DeAndre Williams	1	9:46	2.0	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	4.0	0.0	0.0	2.0
Chiang Yu-An	3	39:42	17.0	50.0%	45.0%	50.0%	4.0	4.0	1.7	0.0
DeMarcus Cousins	4	35:39	25.3	45.0%	20.0%	85.7%	16.5	2.0	1.8	1.8
Lasan Kromah	4	39:32	25.5	47.6%	44.0%	64.7%	4.5	5.8	3.5	0.5
Huang Jhen	4	8:05	3.0	30.8%	36.4%	0.0%	1.8	0.8	0.0	0.5
Wu Pei-Chia	Did not play
Devin Williams	3	20:48	6.3	32.0%	0.0%	75.0%	6.3	1.3	0.7	0.3
Lee Chi-Wei	4	36:15	9.3	56.5%	52.6%	50.0%	2.3	1.5	0.8	0.5
Liu Yuan-Kai	4	5:25	0.8	50.0%	0.0%	50.0%	1.3	0.0	0.0	0.0

Taipei Mars

Player	GP	MPG	PPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG
Lin Ping-Sheng	4	36:03	25.0	48.1%	35.7%	70.0%	4.8	4.5	2.8	0.3
Ting Sheng-Ju	3	12:04	0.3	0.0%	0.0%	50.0%	2.7	2.0	0.0	0.0
Lin Li	2	2:10	0.0	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5	0.5	0.0	0.0
Liu Yen-Ting	1	2:30	0.0	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Chen Wen-Hung	4	25:50	5.5	29.2%	27.8%	75.0%	3.0	2.3	0.5	0.5
Chang Chao-Chen	2	1:45	1.0	33.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Jaylen Johnson	4	43:01	19.0	43.3%	30.0%	63.2%	13.0	4.8	2.0	0.8
Huang Tsung-Han	4	23:49	7.8	29.4%	32.0%	100.0%	1.8	0.3	1.5	0.0
Lin Yi-Huei	3	19:10	6.7	38.9%	27.3%	60.0%	3.0	1.0	1.0	0.0
Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson	Did not play
Sun Szu-Yao	2	3:11	0.0	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.5
Hsu Ching-En	Did not play
Chang Keng-Yu	2	22:58	6.5	60.0%	33.3%	0.0%	3.0	0.0	0.5	0.0
Vladyslav Koreniuk	3	14:36	6.0	53.8%	0.0%	66.7%	4.7	0.7	0.0	0.7
Youssou Ndoye	3	32:03	15.0	55.2%	0.0%	76.5%	8.3	2.3	0.0	0.3
Tsao Xun-Xiang	4	37:10	9.8	34.8%	30.0%	50.0%	4.3	3.8	1.5	0.3

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