CSKA won against Besiktas

CSKA won the first game of the tournament in Bologna against Besiktas 90-83 and qualified to the Final where the team would play the winner of Scavolini-Virtus game.

Besiktas – CSKA: 83-90 (25-26, 15-15, 23-27, 20-22)

Andersen: 26 pts + 16 reb + 2 st + 3 to + 2 as + 1 bs;
Vorontsevich: 19 pts + 7 reb;
Shved: 10 pts + 2 reb + 3 as + 6 to + 3 pf;
Kashirov: : 9 pts + 2 reb + 1 st + 1 to + 4 pf;
Langdon: 8 pts + 1 reb + 3 as + 1 to;
Golovin: 7 pts + 2 st;
Martin: 7 pts + 1 st + 3 as + 1 to + 3 pf;
Kolesnikov: 4 pts + 4 reb;
Zabelin: 3 reb;
Yarbrough: 3 reb + 3 to + 4 pf;
Goree, Grant, Shashkov, Petukhov – DNP

Ettore Messina, CSKA head coach:

- I am happy we played a good game and won against Besiktas with the full roster. Our center David Andersen showed his best for the crowd in the city where he used to play. I tried to use as much as possible Shved and Vorontsevich instead of Martin and Yarbrough and once again I receive some good response from our young players. I am pleased on the result of our training camp no matter if we would win or loose the last game. We did a plenty of job.