The 2000–01 FIBA SuproLeague was the

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Champions' Cup for the 2000–01 season. Up until that season, there was one cup, the FIBA European Champions' Cup (which is now called the EuroLeague), though in this season of 2000–01, the leading European teams split into two competitions: the FIBA SuproLeague and

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's Euroleague 2000–01. The season started on 18 October 2000, and ended on 13 May 2001. The competition's Final Four took place at

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European Champions' Cup teams divided

The European Champions' Cup was originally established by

and it operated under its umbrella from 1958 until the summer of 2000, concluding with the 1999–2000 season. Euroleague Basketball was created on 1 July 2000. FIBA had never trademarked the "EuroLeague" name and had no

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on the usage of that name. Therefore, FIBA had to find a new name for their league and chose "''SuproLeague''". The 2000–01 season started with two top European professional club basketball competitions: the FIBA SuproLeague (renamed from the FIBA EuroLeague) and the brand new Euroleague. Top clubs were split between the two leagues: Panathinaikos,

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, and Efes Pilsen stayed with FIBA, while Olympiacos, Kinder Bologna, Real Madrid,

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, Tau Cerámica, and Benetton Treviso joined Euroleague Basketball.

Competition system and format

*20 teams (national domestic league champions, and runners-up from various national domestic leagues), playing in a tournament system. The first phase was a regular season, in which the twenty competing teams were drawn into two groups, each containing ten teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 18 games for each team. The top 8 teams in each group advanced to the Round of 16, and the winners of this round advanced to the Quarterfinals. Both of the rounds were played in a Best-of-three playoff system. The winning teams of the Quarterfinals qualified to the SuproLeague Final Four, which was held in the

, in

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, on 10–13 May 2001.

Teams

Regular season

If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order: #Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs #Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs #Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs were not in the same group) #Points scored in all group matches #Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

Group A

Group B

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Final four

Bracket

Semifinals

11 May,

3rd place game

13 May,

Final

13 May,

Final standings

Awards

; FIBA SuproLeague Top Scorer * Miroslav Berić ( Partizan) ; FIBA SuproLeague Player of the Year *

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(Maccabi Tel Aviv) ; FIBA SuproLeague Finals Top Scorer *

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( Panathinaikos) ; FIBA SuproLeague All-Final Four Team *

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(Maccabi Tel Aviv)

Two continental champions

In May 2001, Europe had two continental champions,

of the FIBA SuproLeague and Kinder Bologna of

's EuroLeague. The leaders of both organizations realized the need to come up with a new single competition. Negotiating from the position of strength, Euroleague Basketball Company dictated proceedings and FIBA essentially had no choice but to agree to their terms. As a result, the EuroLeague was fully integrated under Euroleague Basketball Company's umbrella, and teams that competed in the FIBA SuproLeague during the 2000–01 season joined it as well. It is today officially admitted that European basketball had two champions that year, Maccabi of the FIBA SuproLeague and Kinder Bologna of the Euroleague Basketball Company's EuroLeague.

Formation of the Euroleague

A year later,

and FIBA decided that Euroleague Basketball's EuroLeague competition would be the main basketball tournament on the continent, to be played between the top-level teams of Europe. FIBA Europe would also organize a European league for third-tier level teams, known as the FIBA Europe League competition, while Euroleague Basketball would also organize its own second-tier level league, combining FIBA's long-time

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and

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competitions into one new competition, the EuroCup. In 2005, Euroleague Basketball and FIBA decided to cooperate with each other and did so until 2016. In essence, the authority in European professional basketball was divided over club-country lines. FIBA stayed in charge of national team competitions (like the

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, the FIBA World Cup, and the Summer Olympics), while Euroleague Basketball took over the European professional club competitions. From that point on,

and

competitions lasted only one more season before folding, which was when Euroleague Basketball launched the EuroCup.

References

External links

2000–01 FIBA SuproLeagueEurobasket.com 2000–01 FIBA SuproLeague
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