CSKA sweep Red Star to reach Euroleague Final Four

By Zoran Milosavljevic BELGRADE (Reuters) - Former six-times Euroleague winners CSKA Moscow became the first team to reach this season’s Final Four after a 78-71 win at Red Star Belgrade completed a 3-0 sweep of the Serbian champions in their best-of-five quarter-finals on Monday. CSKA, who won their last title in 2008, reached the showpiece event for the fifth time in a row after a mature performance in front of 18,000 fervent Serbian fans in Belgrade’s Kombank Arena. The Russian side nailed eight of their 11 three-pointers in the second half and five in the third quarter, as French guard Nando De Colo led the charge with a game-high 20 points.

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