The first place Nizhny Novgorod moves to the Last 32 with a road win, after beating PAOK Thessaloniki 52-60 on Wednesday. PAOK learned before the tip-off it has lost mathematical chances to advance, and has finished the season in the fourth place of Group F with 5-5 record. Nizhny Novgorod, which previously secured the first place, finishes the regular season with 8-2 record. The visitors took control of the game by holding the hosts to only 3 points in the second quarter for 24-29 halftime lead, and then used a 2-15 run bridging the third and fourth quarter to pull away. Primoz Brezec paced the winners with 16 points and 7 rebounds, while Semen Antonov amassed 14 points plus 11 rebounds for Nizhny. Georgios Dedas netted 11, and Michalis Tsairelis had 10 points in defeat.

Tsairelis and Kostas Charalampidis hit triples for the starting 10-6 lead, and after Brezec strung together 6 points for the visitors, D.J Cooper and Tsairelis fueled a 9-1 spurt, capped with a three-pointer from Leonidas Kaselakis for 21-13. Nizhny opened the second quarter with a 0-8 run as Evgeny Baburin nailed a pair of three-pointers and the hosts were without a basket for almost 5 minutes until Charalampidis hit a triple. But Dmitriy Khvostov and Brandon Paul hit more from downtown for the visitors, and Paul added a fastbreak layup for 24-29 at halftime. Brezec scored 8 points, and Antonov made a pair of layups to open 31-41 lead midway through the third, but the hosts cut it to 39-41 with back-to-back triples from Dedas. But three-pointers from Antonov late in the third and early in the fourth helped Nizhny back to a double-digit lead, and Baburin hit from downtown as margin reached 41-56. Dedas hit a three-pointer for PAOK, but Antonov and Vladimir Ivlev kept the visitors with a double-digit margin before Evangelos Margaritis rounded out the scoring with a triple with a minute to go.