KMT participants are divided into two baskets / News before the draw ceremony



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The Citadele King Mindaugas Cup (KMT) is gaining momentum. This week, Pasvalys’ Milk Stars, who crossed the Nevėžis-Optibet barrier in Kėdainiai, became the seventh team to reach the quarter-finals of the tournament.

In addition to Pasvalys, the following clubs had already secured their place there: Kaunas “Žalgiris”, Vilnius “Rytas”, Panevėžys “Lietkabelis”, Klaipėda “Neptūnas”, Utena “Juventus” and Prienai “CBet”. The teams of Alytus “Dzūkija” and “Šiauliai”, who will meet in the second stage, are still applying for the last quarter-final ticket. The winners of this pair will be announced on December 14.

Meanwhile, during the long hiatus of the match between Žalgiris and Rytas, which will take place this Sunday (December 6), the lotteries for the quarterfinals of the Citadele KMT will be drawn. All of this will be broadcast live on BTV TV.

Before this ceremony, all the teams, according to the results of last season, divided into two baskets to form the quarterfinal pairs.

First car: “Žalgiris”, “Rytas”, “Lietkabelis”, “Neptūnas”.

Second car: Juventus, CBet, Pieno Žvaigždės, Šiauliai or Dzūkija.

Žalgiris and his opponent will form the first pair of the quarterfinals, Rytas the second, Lietkabelis the third and Neptūnas the fourth. In the semi-finals, the winners of the first pair will meet the winners of the fourth pair and the winners of the second pair will meet the winners of the third.

Two games will be played in the quarterfinals: the first will be played in the local stadiums of the second basketball teams and the second will be played in the teams of the first basketball teams. The team with the best ratio of lost points after two games will enter the Citadele KMT final four tournament.

Last year, the quarterfinals of the tournament looked like this: “Žalgiris” – “Šiauliai”, “Rytas” – “Juventus”, “Neptūnas” – “Dzūkija”, “Lietkabelis” – “Pienovaigždės”. For the Utena and Vilnius clubs, this was the fourth year in a row that both teams met in the quarterfinal stage, and this duel gave basketball fans more than one impressive moment. Perhaps the spells will unite fierce opponents this year as well?

The final four of the Citadele KMT will take place from February 13 to 14.

According to the website “BasketNews.lt”, this season will be held at the Panevėžys “Cido” stadium.



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