One of the biggest winners at the 2009 Eurocup Final Eight in Turin was Marius Petravicius of Lietuvos Rytas. Petravicius was severely injured less than four years ago when he played for Oostende and briefly played in Kuwait before joining L. Rytas in the summer of 2006. He completed his improbable run from little known to star by leading L. Rytas to its second Eurocup title, earning Final Eight MVP honors in the process and qualifying his team directly to the 2009-10 Euroleague regular season. L. Rytas has now made it to the Euroleague through the Eurocup in each of its last three appearances in the competition: 2005, 2007 and 2009. Petravicius will never forget the title game against Khimki, in which his team rallied from a double-digit deficit in the final 14 minutes to wind up lifting the trophy. "We had done that before in the Lithuanian Cup final against Zalgiris. We were losing by like 16 points and came back in the fourth quarter. It was not a huge experience to us, because we had been in a similar position before," Petravicius told Eurocupbasketball.com. "We kind of learned this year not to give up. Even if you are down, the game is not over until the final buzzer and we proved it in the final."