Korać Cup
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The Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA between 1972 and 2002. It was the third competition in European basketball, after the European Champions Cup (later renamed Euroleague) and the Cup Winners Cup (later renamed Saporta Cup).
It was named after the legendary Yugoslav player Radivoj Korać, who was killed in 1969 in a car accident near Sarajevo. The very last Korac Cup season was held during 2001-2002. The competition had two knockout qualifying rounds, then a group stage which consisted of eight groups of four teams each. The two top teams from each group qualified for the playoffs. The final was played in two legs. The winners were SLUC Nancy and the runners-up were Lokomotiv Rostov-on-Don
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- Coach Bogdan Tanjevic made it to 5 Korac Cup finals with four different clubs, and lost all of them. In 1978 his Bosna team lost to Partizan 110-117 in overtime. Then in 1986 he made it to the very end again with Juve Caserta, only to lose to Virtus Rome in a two legged final. Finally, in the '90s, Tanjevic made 3 more finals, this time consecutively: with Pallacanestro Trieste in 1994 (lost to PAOK), and with Olimpia Milano in 1995 and 1996 (lost to ALBA and Efes Pilsen, respectively).
