The second stage of a phenomenal Turkish Airlines EuroLeague season is set! On the final night of the regular season, the playoffs bracket was completed with three more pairings to give fans a tantalizing quartet of best-of-five series starting on Tuesday, April 25. Here are the matchups and schedule through the first four games of each series.
Olympiacos Piraeus (1) vs. Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul (8)
In a rematch of their 2018 championship game, regular-season winner Olympiacos will have home-court advantage against Fenerbahce in the playoffs. The Reds ride a nine-game home-court winning streak into the series and enter the playoffs for the second year running after missing back-to-back seasons. Last season Coach Bartzokas's team edged AS Monaco in a thrilling five-game series. Olympiacos had reached the playoffs for 10 successive years from 2006 through 2015. Fenerbahce returns to the playoffs after missing last season. Before that, it had been to the postseason in six straight seasons and gone to five Final Fours. Historically, Fenerbahce is one of only two teams with a winning record on the road in the playoffs (7-5). The Reds swept Fenerbahce this season, winning 94-67 at home in Round 13 and 74-93 in Istanbul in late January.