Italian League, Regular Season, Game 3: October 23, 2011 - Italy

May 23, 2013

Italian League, Regular Season, Game 3: October 23, 2011

Bennet Cantu and Pepsi Caserta are the last two remaining undefeated teams in the Italian League after the latter upset defending champion Montepaschi Siena 65-69. Andre Collins scored 18 and Andrija Stipanovic tallied 15 points and 15 rebounds for Caserta. Siena came from behind to tie the score at 65-65, but Stipanovic answered back and Alex Righetti sealed the win from the line. Rimas Kaukenas scored 15 and Bo McCalebb 14 for the winners. Cantu came from behind late to beat Umana Venezia 76-80. Gianluca Basile twice knotted the score with triples in the closing minutes and after Szymon Szewczyk connected from downtown for Venezia, Basile added free throws before Maarten Leunen put Cantu ahead 76-77 with a minute left. Leunen sank 3 more free throws in the final minute to ice the win. Basile paced the winners with 19 points and Vladimir Micov and Marko Scekic netted 12 each for Cantu. Timmy Bowers scored 20 for Venezia. EA7 Emporio Armani Milano bounced back from last week’s loss to take care of Canadian Solar Bologna 79-64. The Milano defense held the visitors in check all night and a 29-point third-quarter outburst put the hosts up 21 with 10 minutes to go. Antonis Fotsis scored 15, Malik Hairston 13 and Ioannis Bourousis 12, while Omar Cook ran the attack with 9 assists. Petteri Koponen scored 14 for Bologna. Taquan Dean scored 26 points to lead Sidigas Avellino past Benetton Treviso 83-75. After Vlad Moldoveanu put Benetton ahead 62-63 late in the third quarter, Linton Johnson and Dean responded with 10 straight points for Avellino and Benetton never got closer than 5 after that. Johnson finished with 16 points and 14 rebounds for the winners. Brian Scalabrine led Benetton with 18 points and Jeff Adrien tallied 15 points and 13 boards. Cimberio Varese, Vanoli Braga Cremona, Virtus Roma and Angelico Biella also won to improve to 2-1.

LAST GAME GAME 3 October 22-23, 2011
Day	Match	Result
Oct. 23	Montepaschi vs. Pepsi Caserta	65-69
Oct. 23	Emporio Armani vs. Can. Solar	79-64
Oct. 22	Sidigas A. vs.Benetton Treviso	83-75
Oct. 23	Cimberio Varese vs. Novipiù	72-64
Oct. 23	Vanoli-Braga vs. B. Sardegna	89-92
Oct. 23	Fabi Shoes vs. Virtus Roma	67-76
Oct. 23	Angelico B. vs. Banca Tercas	69-67
Oct. 23	Umana Ve.vs. Bennet Cantù	76-80

NEXT GAME GAME 4 October 29-30, 2011
Day	Match
Oct. 29	Bennet Cantù vs. Scavolini
Oct. 30	B. Sard. vs. Emporio Armani
Oct. 30	Canadian Solar vs. Vanoli-B.
Oct. 30	Virtus Roma vs. Cimberio Va.
Oct. 30	Pepsi Caserta vs. Novipiù
Oct. 30	Angelico Biella vs. Sidigas
Oct. 30	B. Tercas vs. Sidigas Avellino
Oct. 30	Umana Venezia vs. Fabi Sh.

	STANDINGS	TG	W	L	P+	P-
1	Bennet Cantù	3	3	0	223	194
2	EA7 Emporio Armani Milano	3	2	1	234	208
3	Virtus Roma	3	2	1	245	230
4	Pepsi Caserta	2	2	0	154	149
5	Banco di Sardegna Sassari	3	2	1	228	218
6	Sidigas Avellino	3	2	1	255	250
7	Montepaschi Siena	3	2	1	226	212
8	Angelico Biella	3	2	1	215	210
9	Cimberio Varese	3	2	1	248	241
10	Benetton Treviso	3	1	2	236	243
11	Scavolini Siviglia Pesaro	2	1	1	134	142
12	Fabi Shoes Montegranaro	3	1	2	240	253
13	Vanoli Braga Cremona	3	1	2	223	237
14	Canadian Solar Bologna	3	1	2	247	266
15	Banca Tercas Teramo	3	0	3	209	221
16	Umana Venezia	2	0	2	152	166
17	Novipiù Casale Monferrato	3	0	3	195	224