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The Muscles tied the score at the end of the game after Will Clyburn’s free throws, but only the hosts scored in the final three minutes of the game.
Anton Astapkovich hit the colon and regained the lead in Nizhny Novgorod, and after many failed attempts by CSKA to score points in the closing seconds, victory was secured by a penalty from Ivan Strebkov and A. Astapkovich.
The decisive match of the third series will be played on Saturday in Moscow.
CSKA runs the risk of not reaching the VTB League semi-finals for the first time in this series. So far, all 11 Muscovites have played the final and only lost it once (2011) against the Chimki club in the Moscow region.
The winners of this pair will play in the semifinals against Zenit St. Petersburg, who beat Parma coached by Kazys Maksvytis 2-0 in the quarter-final series.
“Nizhny Novgorod”: Anton Astapkovich 19, Kasey Shepherd 13, Sergei Toropov 9.
CSKA: Ivan Uchov 12, Will Clyburn 11, Tornikė Šengelija and Nikita Kurbanov (14 sec.) 10 each.
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