Here are some interesting notes about the duel.
Game Notes CSKA Moscow vs. Zenit St Petersburg
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· CSKA is 4-0 against Zenit in the EuroLeague. Last season in Moscow, CSKA beat Zenit 83-65. These four EuroLEague meetings are the only four times that the two Russian squads faced each other outside the domestic competitions.
· CSKA and Zenit faced each other in the finals of the VTB SuperCup in September; CSKA won 81-73 to take the trophy. Will Clyburn scored 18 points in a victory and Billy Baron netted 17 points in defeat.
· Zenit's single-game record for two-pointers made by a player is 10, which Gustavo Ayon set against CSKA in November 2019.
· CSKA guard Alexey Shved was a teammate of Zenit's Sergey Karasev and Jordan Mickey at Khimki Moscow Region last season. Shved and Mickey have also been teammates at Khimki in the 2018-19 season, while Shved and Karasev have also been there in the 2019-20 season.
· Shved and Zenit's Andrey Zubkov were teammates at Khimki for two seasons, from 2017 to 2019.
· Zubkov has been a teammate on the Russian national team with CSKA's Shved, Semen Antonov and Nikita Kurbanov.
· Zenit guard Dmitry Kulagin played for CSKA in the youth categories and professionally from 2015 to 2017. He helped the team win the 2016 EuroLeague title.
· Mindaugas Kuzminskas and Arturas Gudaitis have played together with CSKA guard Marius Grigonis on the Lithuanian national team.
· Kuzminskas and an injured CSKA center Nikola Milutinov were teammates at Olympiacos Piraeus for the first part of the 2019-20 season.
· Mindaugas Kuzminskas posted his career-high in index rating with 30 playing for Unicaja Malaga against CSKA in November 2015.
· The last time these two teams played in the EuroLeague, Johannes Voigtmann posted his career-high in index rating with 31.
· Zenit forward Jordan Mickey posted his career-high with 6 steals playing for Khimki Moscow Region against CSKA in April 2021.
· Zenit guard Jordan Loyd posted his career-high in scoring with 31 points playing for Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade against CSKA last October.
