LJUBLJANA, Slovenia: Jeffery Taylor scored 25 points Saturday to lead Sweden to a stunning 81-62 upset victory over Russia at the EuroBasket European Basketball Championship.

Russia, the Olympic bronze medalist last year and third-place finisher at the Euros two years ago, now looks unlikely to make the second round after three straight defeats. Sweden is 1-2.

Also Saturday, defending champion Spain limited the Czech Republic to two points in the final quarter and ran away with a 60-39 victory despite some poor shooting of its own.

Detroit Pistons forward Jonas Jerebko added 22 points and 13 rebounds for Sweden in the Group D game in Koper as his team pulled away in the final quarter after leading for most of the game.

Aleksey Shved had 15 points for Russia and Semen Antonov added 13.

Spain missed its last seven 3-point attempts and was almost as ineffective as the Czechs in the fourth — Spain had outscored its opponent 4-2 in the quarter with less than three minutes remaining in the game.

Spain only shot 32 percent from the field for the game, but the Czechs were even worse at 24 percent. The Czechs pulled within five late in the third quarter but Spain then clamped down on defense.

In Celje, Rudy Fernandez had 14 points and Ricky Rubio added 10 for Spain. Marc Gasol scored his only basket halfway into the third quarter but pulled down 10 rebounds.

Jan Vesely had seven points and 14 rebounds and Lubos Barton had 12 rebounds and five points for the Czechs, who fell to 1-2. Spain is 2-1 in Group C.

Top three teams from each of the four groups advance to the second round.