Today Irkutsk BC Irkut will open its home series with a game against last years Superleague champion and Russian Cup winner Novosibirsk. The game will be at Trud Sports Palace at 7 pm, and tickets will cost 100 rubles. Irkut is sixth, while the opponent is second, so fans can expect a truly key match.
Today, the Irkutsk basketball club “Irkut” will host last year’s Super League champion and Russian Cup winner “Novosibirsk” at home.The match will take place at the Trud Sports Palace at 19:00. Ticket price is 100 rubles.
With this game, the Irkutsk team will open a home series that will continue with matches against “University-Yugra” and “MBA”.
Irkut approaches this game in the upper part of the league standings with 5 points in 4 games, occupying sixth place out of 13. Novosibirsk is second with 7 points, behind the team “Samara-SGEU”.
Reference: the basketball club “Novosibirsk” was created in 2011 after the debt-ridden “Sibirtelecom-Lokomotiv” failed to appear at the Russian Basketball Championship. Financing guarantees were obtained in mid-August 2011, after which the urgent formation of a team began, which entered the Higher League and the Russian Cup. Having taken 3rd place in the final standings, the team earned the right to compete in the Super League the following season. In the 2014—2015 season, the club became the Super League champion and cup winner.