EUROLEAGUE – Milano win crunch game against CSKA

MILAN (Euroleague) - Armani Jeans Milano drove another nail in the Euroleague coffin of CSKA Moscow by beating the Russian giants in Italy on Wednesday night.
 
Milano, who won the first encounter between the sides, prevailed 71-65 after getting 18 points from Ibrahim Jaaber and 15 from Italy international Stefano Mancinelli.
 
Dusko Vujosevic's CSKA turned the ball over 18 teams.
 
Ramunas Siskauskas, who had been out with a back injury, returned to the CSKA line-up and played more than 30 minutes and scored 10 points.
 
Milano were without key players but still improved to 3-3 while CSKA fell to 1-5.
 
"Jonas Maciulis and Oleksiy Pecherov were in street clothes, Marius Petravicius was at 50% physically and David Hawkins had stomach problems, so it was not easy," Milano coach Piero Bucchi said.
 
"We had a very short bench and I want to highlight the character of my team."
 
CSKA are bottom of Group D while Milano are fourth.
 
Asseco Prokom won for the first time, beating BC Khimki 71-67, and Fenerbahce Ulker prevailed 81-75 at Lietuvos Rytas.
 
Cholet's three-game winning streak in the Euroleague came to a half as they lost at home to Montepaschi Siena, 70-61.
 
Lithuania international Ksistof Lavrinovic poured in a game-high 23 points and also pulled down eight rebounds for Montepaschi, who are 5-1 in Group C and looking as good as ever under coach Simone Pianigiani despite major changes to the roster in the summer.
 
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