Euroleague 2000-01

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The Euroleague is an international basketball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe. The inaugural Euroleague season 2000-01 started in October 16, 2000 in regular season game between hosts Real Madrid and Olympiacos at the Raimundo Saporta Pavilion in Madrid, Spain^[1], and ended with the championship finals game on May 10, 2001, at the PalaMalaguti arena in Bologna, Italy. 24 teams competed for the championship, which was won by Kinder Bologna. Dejan Tomasevic was the regular season MVP and Manu Ginobili was the Finals MVP.

Contents 1 Format 1.1 Regular Season 1.2 Playoffs 1.3 Finals 2 Regular Season 2.1 Group A 2.2 Group B 2.3 Group C 2.4 Group D 3 Round Of 16 4 Quarter Finals 4.1 Semi-finals 4.2 Finals 5 Awards 5.1 Regular Season MVP 5.2 Finals MVP 5.3 All Euroleague First Team 2000-2001 5.4 All Euroleague Second Team 2000-2001 6 Notes 7 External links

[edit] Format

[edit] Regular Season

The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into four groups, each containing six teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 10 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.

[edit] Playoffs

In a "Best of Three" series the remaining 16 teams were placed against each other. The games were held between the 31st of January and the 14th of February, 2001, with the top 8 teams advancing to the Top 8.

In a "Best of Three" series the remaining 8 teams were placed against each other. The games were held between the 21st of February and the 7th of March, 2001, with the top 4 teams advancing to the Semi finals, to play each other in a best of five series.

[edit] Finals

The culminating stage of the Euroleague season, the two remaining teams that won the semi final series played a each other in a best of five series.

[edit] Regular Season

The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into four groups, each containing six teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 10 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.

Key to colors

	Top four places in each group, advance to Top 16
	Eliminated

Tiebreakers:

• 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 are not in the same group).
• Points scored in all group matches.
• Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match.

[edit] Group A

Main article: Euroleague 2000-01 Regular Season Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Fortitudo Bologna	10	8	2	812	760	+52
2.	Peristeri Athens	10	7	3	841	786	+55
3.	Zalgiris	10	6	4	1072	998	+74
4.	Estudiantes	10	3	7	1059	1032	+27
5.	Lugano	10	3	7	777	914	-137
6.	Zadar	10	2	8	840	859	-19

[edit] Group B

Main article: Euroleague 2000-01 Regular Season Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Kinder Bologna	10	9	1	835	734	+101
2.	AEK Athens	10	8	2	805	746	+59
3.	TAU Ceramica	10	6	4	749	700	+49
4.	Cibona Zagreb	10	3	7	773	832	-59
5.	Saint Petersburg Lions	10	2	8	778	840	-62
6.	W Wallone	10	2	8	769	857	-88

[edit] Group C

Main article: Euroleague 2000-01 Regular Season Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Olympiacos Piraeus	10	7	3	861	738	+123
2.	Real Madrid	10	7	3	859	789	+70
3.	Olimpija Ljubljana	10	7	3	823	752	+71
4.	Benetton Treviso	10	6	4	847	777	+70
5.	Hapoel Jerusalem	10	3	7	784	881	-97
6.	Ovarense	10	0	10	746	983	-237

[edit] Group D

Main article: Euroleague 2000-01 Regular Season Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	FC Barcelona	10	8	2	856	757	+99
2.	PAOK Thessaloniki	10	7	3	846	773	+73
3.	Budućnost Podgorica	10	7	3	844	819	+25
4.	Muller Verona	10	6	4	920	854	+66
5.	London Towers	10	1	9	775	878	-103
6.	Opel Skyliners	10	1	9	696	856	-160

[edit] Round Of 16

In a "Best of Three" series the remaining 16 teams were placed against each other. The games were held between the 31st of January and the 14th of February, 2001, with the top 8 teams advancing to the Playoffs.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Fortitudo Bologna	2 - 0	Cibona Zagreb	76 - 64	75 - 74	unnecessary
Real Madrid	2 - 0	Budućnost Podgorica	91 - 63	76 - 62	unnecessary
Kinder Bologna	2 - 0	Estudiantes	113 - 70	85 - 80	unnecessary
PAOK Thessaloniki	1 - 2	Olimpija Ljubljana	75 - 64	77 - 85	69 - 73
Olympiacos Piraeus	2 - 0	Verona	94 - 92	96 - 84	unnecessary
Peristeri Athens	0 - 2	TAU Ceramica	79 - 81	68 - 81	unnecessary
FC Barcelona	0 - 2	Benetton Treviso	85 - 86	82 - 99	unnecessary
AEK Athens	2 - 0	Zalgiris	69 - 60	73 - 71	unnecessary

[edit] Quarter Finals

In a "Best of Three" series the remaining 8 teams were placed against each other. The games were held between the 21st of February and the 7th of March, 2001, with the top 4 teams advancing to the Semi finals.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Fortitudo Bologna	2 - 1	Real Madrid	74 - 68	57 - 88	88 - 70
Kinder Bologna	2 - 0	Olimpija Ljubljana	80 - 79	81 - 79	unnecessary
Olympiacos Piraeus	0 - 2	TAU Ceramica	72 - 78	76 - 98	unnecessary
AEK Athens	2 - 1	Benetton Treviso	97 - 89	74 - 90	71 - 56

[edit] Semi-finals

In a "Best of Five" series the remaining 4 teams were placed against each other. The games were held between the 27th of March and the 7th of April, 2001.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Kinder Bologna	3 - 0	Fortitudo Bologna	103 - 76	92 - 84	74 - 70
AEK Athens	0 - 3	TAU Ceramica	65 - 90	67 - 70	62 - 76

[edit] Finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg	5th leg
Kinder Bologna	3 - 2	TAU Ceramica	65 - 78	94 - 73	80 - 60	79 - 96	82 - 74

[edit] Awards

[edit] Regular Season MVP

• Dejan Tomasevic ( Budućnost Podgorica )

[edit] Finals MVP

• Emanuel Ginobili ( Kinder Bologna )

[edit] All Euroleague First Team 2000-2001

• Louis Bullock ( Muller Verona )
• Alphonso Ford ( Peristeri Athens )
• Derrick Hamilton ( Saint Petersburg Lions )
• Gregor Fucka ( Fortitudo Bologna )
• Dejan Tomasevic ( Budućnost Podgorica )

[edit] All Euroleague Second Team 2000-2001

• Jemeil Rich ( Lugano )
• Panagiotis Liadelis ( PAOK Thessaloniki )
• Pau Gasol ( FC Barcelona )
• Ioannis Giannoulis ( PAOK Thessaloniki )
• Rashard Griffith ( Kinder Bologna )

[edit] Notes

1. ^ EL.net interview: Eduardo Portela

[edit] External links

• Euroleague.net - Official Euroleague homepage.
• Eurobasket.com - Popular basketball news site.
• TalkBasket.net - Basketball forum.

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