2009–10 Eurocup Basketball was the eighth edition of Europe's second-tier level transnational competition for men's professional

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clubs, the EuroCup. The EuroCup is the European-wide league level that is one tier below the

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level. It began with qualifying round matches on October 20, 2009, and ended with the Eurocup Finals on April 17 and 18, 2010, at

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, Basque Country,

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. The competition was won by

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club Power Electronics Valencia, who won their second EuroCup title, and also secured a place in the 2010–11 edition of the EuroCup's parent competition, the

. For the first time, the EuroCup conducted a four-team final round, as in the EuroLeague. To accommodate this change, a quarterfinal round was introduced. As in the EuroLeague, where the top two teams from each of the four groups in its Top 16 phase advanced to the quarterfinals, the top two teams from each group in the analogous Last 16 phase advanced to the quarterfinals. However, the structure of the EuroCup quarterfinals was very different from that of the EuroLeague — instead of a best-of-5 series, as in the EuroLeague, each EuroCup quarterfinal was a two-legged tie, with the winner determined on

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. Unlike virtually all other basketball competitions, the quarterfinals did not use

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, unless necessary to break an aggregate tie.

Teams of the 2009–2010 Eurocup

Qualifying round

Regular season

Top 16

Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals were two-legged ties determined on aggregate score. The first leg of the Bilbao–Nymburk tie was played on March 23, with all other first legs played on March 24. All return legs were played on March 31. The group winner in each tie, listed as "Team #1", hosted the second leg.

Final four

The first-ever "final four" in the history of the competition, officially called the Eurocup Finals, was held at

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was initially noncommital on whether it would schedule a third-place game, but ultimately decided to do so.

Semifinals

April 17,

3rd place game

April 18,

Final

April 19,

Final standings

Awards

MVP Weekly

Regular season

Top 16

Quarterfinals

Eurocup MVP

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( Bizkaia Bilbao Basket)

Eurocup Finals MVP

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( Power Electronics Valencia)

All-Eurocup Team

Coach of the Year

* Ilias Zouros (

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)

Rising Star

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Individual statistics

Points

Rebounds

Assists

Notes and references

External links

EuroCup Official Website

European Basketball Website
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