 All three games ended with home teams defeating visitors. Defending champions Panthinaikos suffered their second loss in three Top 16 games so far. Two green teams met in Siena but it was Italian club who won the game 84-75. The win gives Montepaschi good chances of advancing to quarter-finals. One more victory would secure them the place in the next stage.
Montepaschi 84-75 Panathinaikos
Montepaschi: Bootsy Thornton 23, Terrell McIntyre 13, Romain Sayto 11, Shaun Stonerook 10, Valdo Ilievski 8, Ksistof Lavrinovic 7, Benjamin Eze 6, Tomas Ress 3, Drake Diener 3.
Panathinaikos: Mike Batiste 20, Dimitris Diamantidis 17, Šarūnas Jasikevičius 16, Sani Becirovic 6, Andrija Zizic 6, Vissilis Spanoulis 4, Kennedy Winston 4, Demos Dikoudis 2.
Olympiakos ketp their hopes alive of finishing among top two teams in Group F as they defeated Žalgiris in Pireaos. Although Lithuanian champions had considerably comfortable lead of 10 points in such a tight game, they failed to hold on it. Panagiotis Giannakis, head coach of Olympiakos and Greek national team, named the patience as one of the keys to the victory.
Olympiakos 86-84 Žalgiris OT
Olympiakos: Lynn Greer 22, Marc Jackson 21, Qyntel Woods 18, Panagiotis Vasilopoulos 9, Roderick Blakney 5, Jake Tsakalidis 4, Georgios Printezis 4, Milos Teodosic 2, Loukas Mavrofekalides 1.
Žalgiris: DeJuan Collins 19, Marcus Brown 16, Mamadou N'Diaye 14, Marko Popovic 14, Jonas Mačiulis 12, Damir Markota 5, Paulius Jankūnas 2, Dainius Šalenga 2.
Unicaja had to win their home game against CSKA Moscow. Spanish club lost their first two game despite reaching Top 16 as the 2nd team in Group B. Russian giants were unable to stop Puerto Rican center Daniel Santiago as he collected 20 points.
Unicaja 72-67 CSKA Moscow
Unicaja: Daniel Santiago 20, Marcus Haislip 11, Jiri Welsch 9, Davor Kus 7, Terrel Castle 6, Berni Rodriguez 5, Boniface Ndong 4, German Gabriel 4, Bojan Popovic 3, Carlos Jimenez 3.
CSKA Moscow: Ramūnas Šiškauskas 12, Trajan Langdon 11, J.R. Holden 10, Theodoros Papaloukas 10, David Andersen 9, Tomas Van Den Spiegel 8, Marcus Goree7.
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