Game Center, Qualifying Round 2, Game 2
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| Maroussi, Orleans take qualifying road to Euroleague! |
 The Qualifying Rounds are over and the Euroleague is complete with two teams that earned their way into the regular season over the weekend. Appropriately enough, those teams were the next-in-line after last season's domestic results in two of Europe's biggest basketball countries - France and Greece. And in both cases, the teams won first-game wins in Qualifying Round 2 on Tuesday and then held on for series victories on aggregate points in Game 2. The team that had to survive its second game on the road was Maroussi Costa Coffee, which lost 75-70 at Alba Berlin on Sunday but won their series by 4 points anyway thanks to a bigger Game 1 victory. Maroussi joins the Euroleague in regular season Group C to play CSKA Moscow, Caja Laboral, Maccabi Electra, Lottomatica Roma and Union Olimpija. Alba pressured until the end, going ahead by 7 points in the game - a basket shy of tying the series - in the next-to-last minute, but Marios Batis emerged a hero for Maroussi. His free throw and fourth three-point shot of the game in the final minute lifte Maroussi to safety and to the Euroleague regular season. Billy Keys led Maroussi with 17 points, while Batis scored 10 of his 15 in the last quarter. Two nights earlier, it was much the same scenario as Etente Orleanaise lost to visiting Benetton Basket 80-82, but won their series by 7 points thanks to a 9-point win in Game 1. It was a roller coaster of a game that was decided by young Adrien Moerman, who was scoreless through three quarters, before coming alive with 3 three-pointers and 15 points in the last 10 minutes to lead Orleans, which will make its Euroleague debut. Orleans joins in regular season Group B, which also has Olympiacos, Partizan, Unicaja, Efes Pilsen and Lietuvos Rytas. The regular season starts for both teams on Wednesday, October 21!
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| QUALIFYING ROUND 2, GAME 2 |
| Tuesday, October 9-11, 2009 |
STATS
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REPORT
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QUOTES
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PREVIEW
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WATCH
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| Entente Orleanaise vs. Benetton |
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| Alba Berlin vs. Maroussi BC |
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STANDINGS, REGULAR SEASON, GAME 1
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| GROUP A |
W-L
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PTS
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| Asvel Basket |
0-0
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+0
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| Montepaschi Siena |
0-0
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+0
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| Regal Barcelona |
0-0
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+0
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| Cibona |
0-0
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+0
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| Zalgiris |
0-0
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+0
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| Fenerbahce Ulker |
0-0
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+0
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| GROUP B |
W-L
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PTS
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| Unicaja |
0-0
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+0
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| Efes Pilsen |
0-0
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+0
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| Entente Orleanaise |
0-0
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+0
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| Lietuvos Rytas |
0-0
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+0
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| Partizan |
0-0
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+0
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| Olympiacos |
0-0
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+0
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| GROUP C |
W-L
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PTS
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| Union Olimpija |
0-0
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+0
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| Caja Laboral |
0-0
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+0
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| CSKA Moscow |
0-0
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+0
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| Virtus Roma |
0-0
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+0
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| Maccabi Electra |
0-0
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+0
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| Maroussi BC |
0-0
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+0
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| GROUP D |
W-L
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PTS
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| Real Madrid |
0-0
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+0
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| Panathinaikos |
0-0
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+0
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| EWE Oldenburg |
0-0
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+0
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| AJ Milano |
0-0
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+0
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| BC Khimki |
0-0
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+0
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| Asseco Prokom |
0-0
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+0
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Thursday, October 08, 2009
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