New Year’s Eve matinee in Belgrade – Mega MIS vs. Cedevita Olimpija

2023/24 AdmiralBet ABA League Round 14, Sunday, 31 December 2023:

MEGA MIS - CEDEVITA OLIMPIJA

Where? Ranko Žeravica Sports Hall, Belgrade

When? 12:00

Story of the game: In the last AdmiralBet ABA League game in 2023, Mega MIS will host Cedevita Olimpija this Sunday at 12:00.

Mega MIS stayed without their best player Nikola Topić over the last week as the young point guard has returned to Crvena zvezda Meridianbet, so it will be now interesting to see how will this new Topić-less Mega MIS look like in the rest of the season. The Pink troops added former Split player Lovre Gnjidić to the roster to replace Topić and Lovre might make his debut already in the match against Cedevita Olimpija.

Mega MIS are currently just outside the Top 8, but if they win the upcoming match they will enter the new year as one of the teams from the Playoffs zone.

On the other side, Cedevita Olimpija are currently sitting all alone at the 2nd place on the standings, which is a very good result for the Dragons. The Ljubljana side finished the first part of the season with the overall score of 10-3 and they now want to start the 2nd part with an important road win that would keep them in the close race for the top spot.

Cedevita Olimpija have a quite good head-to-head score against Mega MIS as the Dragons have won 8 out of 9 games against the Pink troops in the regional league.

Match-up in focus: Nikola Đurišić (Mega MIS) vs. Jaka Blažič (Cedevita Olimpija).

Đurišić is considered as one of the best young players in the league and now when Topić is gone he is Mega MIS’ 2^nd best scorer in the ongoing season with 11.5 points per game.

Blažič is already an AdmiralBet ABA League legend and one of the best scorers in the history of the competition, while in this season he tops Cedevita Olimpija's top scorers list with 16.9 points per game.

Head-to-head score in the regional league: In total 1:8; At Mega MIS home court 1:3.