Olympiakos (Scoonie Penn) & AZS Koszalin (George Reese) Win National Cups!!

(Olympiakos: 2010 Greek Cup Champions)

(From Left to Right: Buckeye & European basketball great Scoonie Penn, Greek Legend Theo Papaloukas, rising star Milos Teodosic, another rising star in Euro ball, Josh Childress, & Halperin.)

(AZS Koszalin: 2010 Polish Cup Champions)

Weekend of Champions - Every year national basketball federations across Europe hold annual National Mini-Cup style tournaments with the best squads, these games are separate from normal National league play.

2-20-2010 - Olympiakos 68 Panathinaikos 64 (2010 Greek Cup Final)

Perhaps the best way to describe the rivalry between Olympiakos & Panathinaikos is to call this clash the Ohio State vs Michigan of Greece. This club rivalry, which stretches across different sports is home to intense banter with usually nothing out of bounds for fodder.

Panathinaikos or PAO has dominated the Greek scene in recent years, winning the last 5 Greek Cups. But a solid Olympiakos club stopped their rivals in a 68-64 defensive final on Feb. 20th. The victory gave Olympiakos their 8th Cup Title of all time, and first since 2002. Former Buckeye great Scoonie Penn helped out with a huge 3 in the 2nd half to hold Panathinaikos at bay. Olympiakos has now defeated PAO twice, once in the Greek League, and now in the Cup Final.

-Video of Olympiakos' celebration which includes Scoonie getting his medal. Well done Scoonie!



-Video of one of the Aggelopoulos brothers (hot shot Olympiakos owners). Scoonie makes a impromptu cameo starting at 0:34 :)



2-21-2010 - AZS Kozsalin 80 PGE Turow 75 (Polish Cup Final)


First AZS Koszalin slayed the previously unbeaten Polish champions Prokom in the Cup semi-finals. Now the feisty club has captured the Cup Crown after defeating PGE Turow 80-75 in the finals on Feb. 21st.

Americans Dante Swanson & George Reese led AZS Koszalin with 20 & 17 points each. AZS led 22-19 after the first quarter & never looked back, leading by up to 18 points at one point before the forth quarter.

-Video of AZS's semifinal win over Polish Power Prokom.