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Moscow Khimki – Real Madrid 77:78
The biggest surprise of the Euroleague season so far. The host, who has carried 23 losses since the beginning of the season, achieved only her third victory in the Euroleague and did so against the Real Madrid star battery, which received a serious blow towards the last straight in Europe’s top factory and is now on a 16-win balance. Alexei Sheved and Eric McCollum excelled for the Russians with 22 points each. The unending Jesse Carroll stood out for the loser with 15 points, as did Gabriel Dek, while at the same time a double-double by Walter Tubars with 14 points and 11 rebounds was not enough for the visitors.
Zenit St. Petersburg – Alba Berlin 71:87
The surprise of the season in the Euroleague has recovered from the home and surprising defeat to Valencia with a crushing victory over the Germans (a dismal balance of 18: 9), only counting the games until the end of their unsuccessful European season. The host continued to put a stake in the first eight that would advance to the next round and achieved its 16th victory against ten losses. High-quality Canadian Kevin Pangos excelled from the back line with 19 points and 7 assists, 18 points and 6 rebounds were not enough for Luke Sikma in the loser from Germany. Tariq Black incidentally played 12 points for the winner and contributed 4 points.
Andulo Zero – Valencia 83:99
The Turks are already completely reminiscent of the scary team from last year, tonight they have already put together a tenth consecutive victory in all competitions and continued to climb to the top of the table with 16 wins against ten losses and a lot of optimism to go this season to the end. The Oranges were stopped precisely after the crushing victory over Zenit away and they have a hard time getting into the top eight with 14 wins versus 13 losses. The local Sertatch Sanli stood out with 20 points, Rodrigo Boboa added 19 of his own, while on the other hand 15 of the quality Boyan Dubleevic did not help the Spaniards.
Zalgiris Kaunas – Lyon-Wilberban 75:85
The Lithuanians really did not say desperate about the eighth dream and achieved an important home victory, when on the way they stopped the French run (balance 15:12) mainly thanks to (another) impressive performance by Marius Grigonis. A good performance by Norris Cole, ex-Maccabi, with 14 points and 5 assists was not enough for the visitors, who moved away from the playoffs in a particularly critical head-to-head, with only seven games left until the end of the season.
