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2019–20 King Mindaugas Cup
The 2019–20 King Mindaugas Cup, also known as Citadele Karaliaus Mindaugo taurė for sponsorship purposes, was the fifth edition of the Lithuanian King Mindaugas Cup. Žalgiris won their third cup after defeating defending champions Rytas in the final 80–60. Format All 10 teams from 2019–20 LKL season and 6 teams from 2019–20 NKL season participated in this tournament. Top four teams from 2018–19 LKL season have received bye's to quarterfinals stage, while the rest of the LKL teams and NKL teams will be drawn into pairs, with the two highest ranked pair winners from 2018 to 2019 LKL season advancing straight into Quarterfinals, while the remaining pair winners will advance to the second round, where once again will be drawn into pairs. The second round pair winners will advance to the Quarterfinals. Round 1 5–10 ranked teams from 2018 to 2019 LKL season and 6 2019–20 NKL season teams faced-off each other in a home-and-away format, with the overall cumulative score ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Russian exclave, semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, with a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.89 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities include Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys. Lithuanians who are the titular nation and form the majority of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian. For millennia, the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united for the first time by Mindaugas, who formed the Kingdom of Lithuania on 6 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC Kuršiai
Palangos Kuršiai was a Lithuanian professional basketball club based in Palanga Palanga (; ; ) is a resort town, resort city in western Lithuania, on the shore of the Baltic Sea. Palanga is the busiest and the largest summer resort in Lithuania and has sand, sandy beaches (18 km, 11 miles long and up to 300 metres, 10 .... The team played in the National Basketball League. The club was bought by Gedvydas Vainauskas and Jonas Vainauskas in June 2023, who formed new basketball club BC Olimpas Palanga. History References External links Official website of BC Kuršiai {{DEFAULTSORT:Kursiai Basketball teams in Lithuania Sport in Palanga Basketball teams established in 2018 Basketball teams disestablished in 2023 2018 establishments in Lithuania 2023 disestablishments in Lithuania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zach LeDay
Zachary Vincent LeDay (born May 30, 1994) is an American-born naturalized Azerbaijani professional basketball player player for Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the University of South Florida and Virginia Tech. At a height of 2.02 m (6'7 ") tall, and a weight of 107 kg (235 lbs.), LeDay primarily plays at the power forward position. Early life and college career LeDay attended Skyline High School in Dallas, then transferred for his senior year to The Colony High School in The Colony, Texas. LeDay played two years at South Florida, where he averaged 3.4 points and 2.5 rebounds in his sophomore year. On June 4, 2014, LeDay transferred from South Florida to Virginia Tech, but sat out first season at Virginia Tech per NCAA transfer rules. In his senior year at Virginia Tech, LeDay averaged 16.4 points, 7.3 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game. He under new coach Buzz Williams led Virginia Tech to fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern European Time
Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. The zone uses daylight saving time, so that it uses UTC+03:00 during the summer. A number of African countries use UTC+02:00 all year long, where it is called Central Africa Time (CAT), although Egypt and Libya also use the term ''Eastern European Time''. The most populous city in the Eastern European Time zone is Cairo, with the most populous EET city in Europe being Kyiv. Usage The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use Eastern European Time all year round: * Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia), since 26 October 2014; also used EET in the years 1945 and 1991–2011. See also Kaliningrad Time. * Libya, since 27 October 2013; switched from Central European Time, which was used in 2012. Used year-round EET from 1980 to 1981, 1990–1996 and 1998–2012. The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use Eastern European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC Neptūnas
Basketball Club Neptūnas (), commonly known as Neptūnas or Neptūnas Klaipėda, is a Lithuanian professional basketball club based in Klaipėda, Lithuania. The club participates in the Lithuanian Basketball League. It was founded in 1962 under the name BC Maistas ( English: ''food'') and in 1964, BC Maistas's name was changed to BC Neptūnas. The club carries the name of the Roman sea god Neptune. Neptūnas participated in the 2014–15 EuroLeague season and is only the third Lithuanian club to participate in the premier European basketball league, after Žalgiris and Rytas. History First steps (1962–1993) In 1966 Neptūnas won the Žalgiris friendship championship and next year with the same roster became runners-up. Since 1970 there have been many changes in the team: coaches and players left the team and were replaced with new team members, so the team did not achieve better results. In 1975 Klaipėda's community decided to change the team from its foundations based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bye (sports)
In sport, a bye is the preferential status of a player or team that is automatically advanced to the next round of a tournament without having to play an opponent in an early round. In knockout (elimination) tournaments, byes may be assigned either to reward the highest ranked participant(s), or randomly, to make a working bracket if the number of participants is not a power of two (e.g. 16 or 32). In round-robin tournaments, usually one competitor gets a bye in each round when there are an odd number of competitors, as it is impossible for all competitors to play in the same round. However, over the whole tournament, each plays the same number of games as well as sitting out for the same number of rounds. The "Berger Tables" used by FIDE for chess tournaments, provide pairings for even numbered pools and simply state that "Where there is an odd number of players, the highest number counts as a bye." Similar to the round-robin context, in league sports with weekly regular-seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC Ežerūnas
BC Ežerūnas-Atletas was a Lithuanian professional basketball club based in Molėtai, Lithuania. Founded in 2009, the club from 2011 to 2021 competed in National Basketball League, since 2021 to 2024 competed in Regional Basketball League. In August 2024, the club ceased all operations. Club achievements * 2011-2012 season: NKL 13th place * 2012-2013 season: NKL 15th place * 2013-2014 season: NKL 3rd place * 2014-2015 season: NKL 2nd place * 2015-2016 season: NKL 13th place * 2016-2017 season: NKL 13th place * 2017-2018 season: NKL 7th place * 2018-2019 season: NKL 11th place Notable players and coaches * Gintautas Matulis * Saulius Kuzminskas * Andrius Šležas * Kęstutis Šeštokas Kęstutis Šeštokas (born April 15, 1976) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player, who plays at the Power forward (basketball), power forward position. He last played for Molėtai Ežerūnas-Karys basketball team. He is the only player wh ... * Evaldas Baniulis * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC Nevėžis
BC Nevėžis (), commonly known as Nevėžis Kėdainiai, also known as Nevėžis-OPTIBET due to sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Kėdainiai, Lithuania. The club currently competes in the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). History BC Nevėžis was founded in 1992 by Stasys Mickevičius. In 1993 BC Nevėžis was renamed to KK Notra because of the club supporters UAB Notra. In 1999 because of the supporters changes, BC Notra was renamed to BC Nevėžis again until now. Club name came from the Nevėžis River, flowing through Kėdainiai city. Nevėžis first played in the second division LKAL (now - National Basketball League (Lithuania)), winning the title in 2002 and qualifying to the Lithuanian Basketball League. Nevėžis became a constant playoff contender, with the highest achievements being reaching the semifinals of the LKL in 2006, even taking future champion BC Lietuvos rytas to the limit, losing the series 1:2. They also reached the Baltic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC Tauragė
BC Tauragė () is a professional basketball team based in Tauragė, Lithuania and currently competes in Regional Basketball League. Club achievements * 2016-2017 season: RKL 1st place Team roster References Tauragė Tauragė (; see #Names and etymology, other names) is an industrial city in Lithuania, and the capital of Tauragė County. In 2020, its population was 20,956. Tauragė is situated on the Jūra, Jūra River, close to the border with the Kaliningr ... Tauragė Basketball teams established in 2010 2010 establishments in Lithuania National Basketball League (Lithuania) teams {{Lithuania-sport-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC Dzūkija
BC Dzūkija () was a professional basketball club located in Alytus, Lithuania. It was founded in 2012 and participated in the Lietuvos krepšinio lyga (LKL). It was the newest basketball club based in Alytus after BC Alita and BC Alytus were dissolved. The club was bought by Lithuanian businessman Gediminas Žiemelis in June 2022, who formed BC Wolves soon after. History In 2019, the club changed its name to Sintek-Dzūkija for sponsorship reasons. It dissolved in 2022 after businessman Gediminas Žiemelis bought the club. The team’s last appearance was game 4 of the 2021-22 LKL playoffs, where they lost to Rytas Vilnius and lost the series 1-3. Notable players * Adam Lapeta (2013-2016, 2021–2022) * Giedrius Gustas (2014-2016) * Artūras Jomantas (2014–2015, 2018–2022) * Tadas Rinkūnas (2015-2016, 2020–2022) * Julius Jucikas (2016) * Katin Reinhardt (2017-2018) * Perry Petty (2018) * Egidijus Dimša (2018–2020) * Ken Brown (2018) * Steponas Babrausk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sūduva-Mantinga
BC Sūduva (; ) known as Sūduva-Mantinga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Marijampolė, Lithuania. Sūduva formerly participated in the Lithuanian Basketball League, LKL. On 16 September 2010 Sūduva basketball club was removed from the Lithuanian Basketball League, LKL because of financial problems. The club currently competes in the second-tier National Basketball League (Lithuania), NKL. The club was named after Suvalkija, an ethnographic region of Lithuania, of which Marijampolė is considered capital. History Marijampolė basketball club "Mantinga" was founded in 2007. The club aims to develop and promote basketball in Marijampolė, promote the formation of wellness and physical development, unite members for physical activity, healthy lifestyles, physical culture, enable Marijampolė residents to systematically engage in basketball, promote social employment, mutual communication, and cooperation, promote a healthy and active lifestyle, repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
