Pre-game breakdown
The Army Men continued their trip in the morning after the win at Barcelona. The team boarded Aeroflot charter and left to Kazan.
Andrey Lopatin and Alexander Khomenko joined their teammates in Tatarstan capitol.
The team practiced at Basket Hall on Sunday night.
CSKA lost twice to UNICS in 2018-19 VTB League regular season.
Word to the coach
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
We face UNICS to finish our road trip. The team from Kazan has quality, and good thing for us that we have time to prepare and to have practice. We are on a good momentum, so we have to continue working on it.
Past matchups
Wins-losses: 76-19
CSKA biggest margin of victory: 102-54 (+48) (1997-98 Russian Championship. Quarterfinal)
UNICS biggest margin of victory: 113-77 (-36) (2000-01 Russian Superleague. Regular season. 2nd stage)
Games of VTB United League 2018-19 Regular Season:
11-Feb-2019. UNICS – CSKA: 71-68 (-3)
01-Apr-2019. CSKA – UNICS: 73-83 (-10)
Short dossier
UNICS Kazan
Founded: 1991
Color: green, black, white
Home court: Basket Hall (7,500)
President: Evgeny Bogachev
Head coach: Dimitrios Priftis
Website: www.unics.ru
Trophy case:
- EuroCup winner (2011),
- FIBA Europe League winner (2004),
- 4-time Russian League runner-up (2001, 2002, 2004, 2007),
- 6-time Russian League bronze winner (2000, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011),
- NEBL champion (2003),
- 3-time Russian Cup winner (2003, 2009, 2014),
- 3-Russian Cup runner-up (2005, 2007, 2010),
- 3-time VTB United League runner-up (2010, 2012, 2016)
