2000–01 Euroleague

The inaugural Euroleague season 2000-01 under the new ULEB authority started on October 16, 2000 with a 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. This Euroleague season did not feature all the best European teams as some of them opted to compete in the FIBA SuproLeague after the row erupted between the previous Euroleague governing body FIBA, and the newly established ULEB.

The total of 24 teams competed for the ULEB Euroleague title, which was in the end won by Kinder Bologna. Dejan Tomašević was the regular season MVP and Emanuel Ginóbili was the Euroleague Final Four MVP.

Contents

Format

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.

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.

Finals

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

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:

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 4 866 816 +50
4. Estudiantes 10 4 6 820 821 -1
5. Lugano 10 3 7 777 914 -137
6. Zadar 10 2 8 840 859 -19

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Awards

Regular Season MVP

Final Four MVP

All-Euroleague First Team 2000-2001

All-Euroleague Second Team 2000-2001

Notes

  1. ^ EL.net interview: Eduardo Portela

External links

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