By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Ian Vougioukas scored a team-high 21 points and led Lokomotiv Kuban to a 77 – 83 victory over Unics in Kazan. Loko has thus improved its record to 15 – 5 and can finish the regular season either fourth or third, depending on how Khimki (currently third with 17-5) fares.
Unics will now enter the quarterfinals from the fifth place after this loss. Quino Colom’s 21 points plus 8 assists or Keith Langford‘s 19 points didn’t do the trick for coach Pashutin’s squad that has been on downhill these past weeks.
In Moscow, CSKA destroyed Tsmoki Minsk 109 – 74, mathematically “locked” first place in the regular season, thus gaining home-court advantage for the entirety of the playoffs. producing the lost
The defending champs produced abundantly, despite the absence of Milos Teodosic. Nando De Colo scored 15 points, Vitaly Fridzon 14 and Cory Higgins 10.
For Tsmoki, Antonion Graves finished with 21 points and 8 assists.