The champs are out

In a game which was quoted as the game of the week Partizan knocked out the defending champions. Serbian champions finished 2nd in the Group D and will meet Group E winners TAU Ceramica in the quarter-finals. Partizan were ahead 26-17 after the first quarter and never lost the lead. Milt Palacio was the top scorer for the winners with 24 points.

Partizan 82-73 Panathinaikos

Partizan: Milt Palacio 24, Dusan Kecman 16, Novica Velickovic 11, Milenko Tepic 10, Nikola Pekovic 9, Cedomir Vitkovac 7, Petar Bozic 3, Slavko Vranes 2.
Panathinaikos: Šarūnas Jasikevičius 20, Mike Batiste 12, Vassilis Spanoulis 11, Sani Becirovic 9, Dimitris Diamantidis 9, Efstratios Perperoglou 4, Nikola Prkacin 4, Nikos Hatzivrettas 2.

In the other game of the Group D Montepaschi had no troubles defeating Efes Pilsen to take the 1st place. Romain Sato led the Italians with 25 points. They will meet Fenerbahce Ulker in the quarter-finals.

Montepaschi 80-67 Efes Pilsen

Montepaschi: Romain Sato 25, Terrell McIntyre 14, Benjamin Eze 10, Bootsy Thornton 10, Kšištof Lavrnovič 9, Shaun Stonerook 6, Drake Diener 6.
Efes Pilsen: Andre Hutson 16, Ender Arslan 11, Scoonie Penn 10, Kenny Gregory 10, Ermal Kuqo 10, Kerem Gonlum 8, Baris Hersek 2.

Fenerbahce had everything in their own hands unlike Lietuvos Rytas and Aris. They did what they had and won comfortably against group winners TAU Ceramica. Willie Solomon was once again unstopable as he helped his team to get through among top 8 clubs in Europe.

Fenerbahce Ulker 75-59 TAU Ceramica

Fenerbahce: Willie Solomon 28, James White 11, Emir Preldzic 9, Rasim Basak 9. Gasper Vidmar 4, Tarence Kinsey 4, Omer Asik 4, Semih Erden 4.
TAU: Tiago Splitter 21, Mirza Teletovic 9, Gabe Mouneke 7, Pete Mickeal 6, Pablo Prigioni 5, Sergi Vidal 5, Igor Rakocevic 2, Zoran Planinic 2, James Singleton 2.

4th meeting between Aris and Lietuvos Rytas ended with the win of the Greek team. Rytas had a poor second half and could find their ways through a solid Aris' defence. Jeremiah Massey had 28 points and a ranking of 34 which surely puts him among the favourites to take the MVP of the week award.

Aris 83-74 Lietuvos Rytas

Aris: Jeremiah Massey 28, Darius Washington 18, Savvas Iliadis 13, Dimitrios Tsaldaris 11, Reyshawn Terry 10, Vladimer Boisa 3.
Rytas: Kenan Bajramovic 14, Jackson Vroman 13, Chuck Eidson 12, Hollis Price 9, Martynas Gecevičius 9, Artūras Jomantas 7, Marijonas Petravičius 6, Mindaugas Lukauskis 4.