CSKA Moscow led from tip to buzzer in routing Panathinaikos Athens 93-66 in the opening game of the teams’ best-of-five Turkish Airlines Euroleague Playoffs series. Milos Teodosic starred with 18 points and 8 assists in less than 20 minutes for the winners. Manuchar Markoishvili and Demetris Nichols each scored 13 points and combined to make 6 of 7 threes, while Andrei Kirilenko netted 12 for the winners. All 12 CSKA players scored. Nikos Pappas paced the Greens with 16 points, Gist scored 14 and Loukas Mavrokefalidis added 10 in defeat.
