"Spartak-Primorye" meets "New York": the meeting promises to be hot

March 12 "Spartak-Primorye" will playoff for access to the "Final Four" of the Russian Cup with BC "Nizhny Novgorod". Kick in the UK "Olympian" at 18:45 Vladivostok time (11:45 MSK).

Tickets on sale in the UK box office "Olympian" (street, battery, 2). Phone: (423) 273-41-41. Reim of banks: March 11 - from 14:00 to 19:00 March 12 - 15:00 to 20:00.

Introducing the opponent. BC "Nizhny Novgorod"

The first quarterfinal match of the Russian Cup was won by "Nizhny Novgorod" with a score of 72:66 and now to return to the "Final Four" "Spartak-Primorye" to beat the Nizhny Novgorod on your dance floor with a difference of at least 7 points.

Blind draw for the second year in a row brought "Nizhny Novgorod" and "Spartak-Primorye" in the quarterfinals of the Russian Cup. And this is the only pair consisting entirely of representatives of clubs PBL. In the 2011/12 season on the way to the "Final Four" "Spartak-Primorye" won two games quarterfinal (80:73 and 77:74), and for the first time in its history, semifinals and won a silver medal as a result of the Russian Cup.

BC "Nizhny Novgorod", as well as other clubs PBL started to go in the Cup this season, with the 1/8 finals. In the two-legged series of Nizhny Novgorod were Super League club "Severstal" from Cherepovets, scoring two wins with a total difference of 69 points.

At the moment, "HH" is a 6 spot in the championship standings Russia PBL: 14 games, 5 wins, 9 defeats. VTB United League in Nizhny Novgorod slightly better position (5th), and most importantly - a positive win-loss ratio - 10/7 and is almost guaranteed a place in the play-offs. On the eve of BC "HH" scored a sensational victory: the home arena in the end he was beaten CSKA (70:68). 2 points for the victory went to the set-off and PBL, and ate VTB.

Last season the club from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia completed the championship at the penultimate ninth place in the Cup of Russia was eliminated in the quarterfinal stage in Eurochallenge not come out of the second group stage, and in the VTB United League made it to the playoffs, but lost in the 1/8 finals in a series of up to two victories Lithuanian "Lietuvos Rytas".

By the completion of the transfer window "Nizhny Novgorod" posted in the "Ryazan" defender Dramira Zibirova , And he is filled with young pupil Belgorod basketball leader suburban "Sparta & K", serving in the Super League, Denis Zakharov . Also in the team after a nearly two-month absence, associated with the recovery, the main center-back "HH" Primoz Brezets.