Zenit children's youth teams: results of the CYBL round

The Blue-White-Sky Blues Basketball Academy teams — Zenit U19, Zenit-2009, and Zenit-2010 — have completed their performances in the second round of the preliminary stage of the Russian U19 Championship. The matches were held from December 13 to 20 in Saint Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Nizhny Tagil.

Here is a more detailed look at the results of the Children's Youth Basketball League games and the final standings of the teams.

The current CYBL champion Zenit U19 navigated the stage almost undefeated. Dmitry Nikolaev's squad played in Group B1 from December 15 to 20, with matches taking place at the FOK Meshchersky court in Nizhny Novgorod. The Blue-White-Sky Blues secured four victories over teams PARMA-CYBL (70:65), Nizhny Novgorod — FOK Meshchersky (87:66), SSOR Lokomotiv Kuban-CYBL (67:55), and SSOR CSKA (83:61), but lost to MBA-CYBL (69:89). Based on the round's results, the Zenit team finished in second place.

Zenit-2009, which played from December 13 to 18 at the SSOR Kupchinsky Olimp venue in Saint Petersburg under the guidance of Vladislav Shumkov, won its first match against UNICS-CYBL with a score of 76:72. However, the team couldn't replicate this success in the remaining games and finished in last place in Group A1.

The third Blue-White-Sky Blues team, Zenit-2010 led by Vadim Dodeus, competed in a tournament in Nizhny Tagil during the same period. The team failed to secure a single victory and also ended up in last place in Group G1.