The 2001–02
Euroleague was the second season of the professional
basketball
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competition for elite clubs throughout
Europe
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, organised by
Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 45th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The season started on October 10, 2001, and ended on May 5, 2002.
The
Final Four was hosted in the
PalaMalaguti
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in
Bologna
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,
Italy
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. A number of 32 teams competed for the championship, which was won by
Panathinaikos.
Mirsad Türkcan
Mirsad Türkcan (born Mirsad Jahović, sr-cyr, Мирсад Јаховић; on June 7, 1976) is a Turkish former professional basketball player of Bosniak origin. Standing at a height of , he played at the power forward position. A three-time Al ...
was named
Regular season MVP, while
Dejan Bodiroga was awarded
EuroLeague Top 16 MVP and
EuroLeague Final Four MVP
The EuroLeague Final Four Most Valuable Player Award is presented and awarded to the basketball player who has exhibited the most exceptional play during the EuroLeague Final Four. The award often goes to the best player on the European-wide top ...
.
Competition system
* 41 teams in total with the qualification rounds, and 32 teams at the first group stage (the national domestic league champions from the best leagues, and a variable number of other clubs from the most important national domestic leagues), playing in a
tournament system. The competition culminated in a Final Four.
Team allocation
Distribution
The table below shows the default access list.
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: EuroLeague title holders)
* 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
* WC:
Wild card
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
Second qualifying round
Third qualifying round
Regular season
The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into four groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 4 teams in each group advanced to the next round, The Top 16. The complete list of tiebreakers is provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.
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
Group C
Group D
Top 16
The remaining 16 teams were placed into four groups of four teams each. Each team played every other team in its group twice, once at home and once away. The top teams of each of the four groups advanced to the Final Four.
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Final Four
Awards
Top Scorer
Regular Season MVP
Top 16 MVP
Final Four MVP
Finals Top Scorer
All-Euroleague First Team
All-Euroleague Second Team
Round MVP
Regular season
Top 16
Individual statistics
Rating
Points
Rebounds
Assists
Other statistics
Individual game highs
See also
*
2001–02 FIBA Saporta Cup
*
2001–02 FIBA Korać Cup
The last, 31st edition of the FIBA Korać Cup occurred between September 25, 2001 and April 17, 2002. The tournament was won by Nancy, who beat Lokomotiv Rostov in the final.
The competition was replaced with FIBA Europe Champions Cup in season ...
References
External links
Euroleague 2001/02 ULEB Euroleague 2001/02
Euroleague.net- Official Euroleague homepage.
Eurobasket.com- Popular basketball news site.
TalkBasket.net- Basketball forum.
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EuroLeague seasons