2011–12 Euroleague

Euroleague 2011–12
League	Turkish Airlines Euroleague
Sport	Basketball
Regular Season
Final Four
Euroleague seasons
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The Turkish Airlines Euroleague 2011–12 will be the 12th season of the modern era of Euroleague Basketball and the second under the title sponsorship of Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this will be the 55th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs. The Final Four will be held at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, on May, 2012

Regular season teams

On June 20, 2011 the teams for this season were announced.^[1]

Country (League)	Teams	Teams^{License type} (ranking in 2010-11 national championship)
Spain (ACB)	5	FC Barcelona Regal ^A (1)	Gescrap Bizkaia ^B (2)	Real Madrid ^A (3)	Caja Laboral Baskonia ^A (4)	Unicaja Málaga ^A (8)
Italy (Lega A)	3	Montepaschi Siena ^A (1)	Bennet Cantù ^B (2)	Emporio Armani Milano ^WC (3)
Turkey (TBL)	3	Fenerbahçe Ülker ^A (1)	Galatasaray Medical Park ^{B QU} (2)	Anadolu Efes İstanbul ^A (4)
Greece (GBL)	2	Panathinaikos BC ^A (1)	Olympiacos BC ^A (2)
Russia (PBL)	2	CSKA Moscow ^A (1)	Unics Kazan ^C (3)
Belgium (BLB)	1	Spirou Basket ^{B QU} (1)
Croatia (A-1 Liga)	1	KK Zagreb ^B (1)
France (LNB Pro A)	1	SLUC Nancy ^B (1)
Germany (BBL)	1	Brose Baskets ^B (1)
Israel (BSL)	1	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv ^A (1)
Lithuania (LKL)	1	Žalgiris Kaunas ^A (1)
Poland (PLK)	1	Asseco Prokom Gdynia ^A^[2] (1)
Serbia (KLS)	1	Partizan mt:s ^B (1)
Slovenia (SKL)	1	Union Olimpija Ljubljana ^B (2)

A new A License was granted to Asseco Prokom Gdynia, making them the 14th club with this distinction. A C License was given to Eurocup 2010–11 winner UNICS Kazan. ULEB suspended the A License of Virtus Roma after they finished in the bottom half of Lega A in 2010–11, awarding a wild card entry to EA Milano.

Spirou Basket and Galatasaray Medical Park has entred the 2011-2012 Euroleague Regular Season via qualification.

Draw

The draws for the 2011–12 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was held on Monday, July 4. The draws determined the qualifying-round matchups and regular-season groups for the Euroleague, as well as the qualifying rounds for the Eurocup and the regular-season for the EuroChallenge.

Teams were seeded into six pots of four teams in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three year period.^[3]

Two teams from the same country cannot coincide in the same Regular Season group, except for Spain that has five teams participating in the competition.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5	Pot 6
FC Barcelona Regal Olympiacos Piraeus Panathinaikos Athens Real Madrid	Montepaschi Siena Caja Laboral Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv CSKA Moscow	Partizan Belgrade UNICS Kazan Unicaja Málaga Fenerbahçe Ülker	Žalgiris Kaunas Asseco Prokom Gdynia Gescrap Bizkaia Anadolu Efes Istanbul	Emporio Armani Milano Union Olimpija Ljubljana Brose Baskets Bamberg Bennet Cantù	SLUC Nancy KK Zagreb Galatasaray Medical Park Spirou Basket

Euroleague qualifying round teams

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 qualifying rounds

The Qualifying Rounds consisted of two Final-Eight tournaments, held in Vilnius and Charleroi. The two winning teams advance to the Euroleague Regular Season

First qualifying round			Second qualifying round			Third qualifying round

1	ASVEL Basket	80
8	BCM Gravelines	72
				ASVEL Basket	83

				Galatasaray	93
4	PAOK	64

5	Galatasaray	77
							Galatasaray	71
							Lietuvos Rytas	63
3	Lietuvos Rytas	83
6	KK Budućnost	64
				Lietuvos Rytas	88

				Cibona Zagreb	71
2	Cibona Zagreb	77

7	Cholet Basket	70

First qualifying round			Second qualifying round			Third qualifying round

1	Alba Berlin	82
8	VEF Rīga	60
				Alba Berlin	63

				Spirou Basket	74
4	Spirou Basket	61

5	BC Donetsk	59
							Spirou Basket	79
							ČEZ Nymburk	53
3	BC Khimki	74
6	PGE Turów	67
				BC Khimki	79

				ČEZ Nymburk	86
2	ČEZ Nymburk	69

7	Banvit	57

Regular season

The Regular Season begins in October 19.

If teams are level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

Head-to-head record.
Head-to-head point differential.
Point differential during the Regular Season.
Points scored during the regular season.
Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season match.

Key to colors
	Top four places in each group advanced to Top 16

Group A

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Regular Season Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Tie-break
1.	Fenerbahçe Ülker	10	6	4	785	758	+27	1−1 (+9)
2.	Olympiacos	10	6	4	782	757	+25	1−1 (−9)
3.	Bennet Cantù	10	5	5	724	744	−20	3−1 (+3)
4.	Gescrap Bizkaia	10	5	5	776	755	+21	2−2 (+4)
5.	Caja Laboral	10	5	5	792	755	+37	1−3 (−1)
6.	SLUC Nancy	10	3	7	743	833	−90

Group B

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Regular Season Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Tie-break
1.	CSKA Moscow	10	10	0	870	729	+141
2.	Panathinaikos	10	7	3	834	739	+95
3.	Unicaja	10	4	6	791	808	−17	1−1 (+5)
4.	Žalgiris Kaunas	10	4	6	763	812	−49	1−1 (−5)
5.	Brose Baskets	10	3	7	773	794	−21
6.	KK Zagreb	10	2	8	718	867	−149

Group C

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Regular Season Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Tie-break
1.	Real Madrid	10	8	2	879	773	+106
2.	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv	10	7	3	790	732	+58
3.	Anadolu Efes	10	5	5	721	751	−30
4.	EA7 Emporio Armani	10	4	6	738	734	+4	1–1 (+2)
5.	Partizan Mt:s	10	4	6	739	774	−35	1–1 (–2)
6.	Spirou Basket	10	2	8	729	832	−103

Group D

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Regular Season Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Tie-break
1.	FC Barcelona Regal	10	9	1	793	559	+194
2.	Montepaschi Siena	10	8	2	779	696	+83
3.	UNICS Kazan	10	7	3	702	656	+46
4.	Galatasaray Medical Park	10	4	6	694	736	−42
5.	Asseco Prokom Gdynia	10	1	9	618	743	−125	1−1 (+7)
6.	Union Olimpija Ljubljana	10	1	9	589	745	−156	1−1 (−7)

Top 16

The draw took place in Barcelona, Spain on 28 December 2011 at 13.00 CET.^[4]^[5] The 16 qualified teams were divided into four seeds based on their final standings in the regular season. Teams coming from the same regular season group were kept from coinciding in the same Top 16 group and an effort was made to keep teams from the same country from coinciding as well. Teams from the same city, Olympiacos and Panathinaikos from Athens, or teams playing in the same arena, Anadolu Efes and Fenerbahçe Ülker at the Sinan Erdem Dome, were prevented from playing both at home in the same matchday.^[6]

Group E

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Top 16 Group E

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	0	0	0	0	0	0
2.	Olympiacos	0	0	0	0	0	0
3.	Anadolu Efes	0	0	0	0	0	0
4.	Galatasaray Medical Park	0	0	0	0	0	0

Group F

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Top 16 Group F

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Real Madrid	0	0	0	0	0	0
2.	Montepaschi Siena	0	0	0	0	0	0
3.	Unicaja	0	0	0	0	0	0
4.	Gescrap Bilbao	0	0	0	0	0	0

Group G

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Top 16 Group G

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Fenerbahçe Ülker	0	0	0	0	0	0
2.	Panathinaikos	0	0	0	0	0	0
3.	UNICS Kazan	0	0	0	0	0	0
4.	EA7 Emporio Armani	0	0	0	0	0	0

Group H

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Top 16 Group H

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	FC Barcelona Regal	0	0	0	0	0	0
2.	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv	0	0	0	0	0	0
3.	Bennet Cantù	0	0	0	0	0	0
4.	Žalgiris Kaunas	0	0	0	0	0	0

Individual statistics

Ranking

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Ranking	RPG
1.	Nicolas Batum	SLUC Nancy	6	139	23.17
2.	Nenad Krstić	CSKA Moscow	10	217	21.70
3.	Mirza Teletović	Caja Laboral	10	207	20.70
4.	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	9	184	20.44
5.	Milan Mačvan	Partizan	10	198	19.80

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1.	Mirza Teletović	Caja Laboral	10	217	21.70
2.	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	9	178	19.78
3.	Demond Mallet	Spirou Basket	9	170	18.89
4.	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena	7	125	17.86
5.	Sonny Weems	Žalgiris Kaunas	10	175	17.50

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rebounds	RPG
1.	Milan Mačvan	Partizan	10	82	8.20
2.	Donatas Motiejūnas	Asseco Prokom	10	79	7.90
3.	Marcus Slaughter	Brose Baskets	10	72	7.20
4.	Nenad Krstić	CSKA Moscow	10	71	7.10
5.	Akin Akingbala	SLUC Nancy	8	55	6.88

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1.	Miloš Teodosić	CSKA Moscow	10	59	5.90
2.	Sergio Rodríguez	Real Madrid	10	55	5.50
3.	Nicolas Batum	SLUC Nancy	6	31	5.17
4.	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos	10	50	5.00
5.	Marcelinho Huertas	Barcelona Regal	10	50	5.00

Awards

MVP Weekly

Main article: Euroleague Weekly MVP Award

Regular Season

Game	Player	Team	Ranking
1	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow	37
2	Nicolas Batum	SLUC Nancy	36
3	Jordan Farmar	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv	35
4	Nicolas Batum	SLUC Nancy	35
5	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow	39
6	Fernando San Emeterio	Caja Laboral	36
7	Erazem Lorbek Milan Mačvan	FC Barcelona Regal Partizan	25
8	Nikola Mirotić	Real Madrid	33
9	Nenad Krstić	CSKA Moscow	31
10	Pietro Aradori	Montepaschi Siena	33

MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team
October 2011	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow
November 2011	Nenad Krstić	CSKA Moscow
December 2011	Nikola Mirotić	Real Madrid

References

^ 2011-12 Turkish Airlines Euroleague teams Euroleague.net June 20, 2011
^ Euroleague assembly meets before 2011-12 draw Euroleague.net July 7, 2011
^ Turkish Airlines Euroleague Draw seeds Euroleague.net - July 4, 2011
^ Top 16 Draw set for December 28 in Barcelona, euroleague.net
^ Turkish Airlines Euroleague Top 16 Draw results, euroleague.net
^ Top 16 Draw, Criteria and Procedure, euroleague.net

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Still in competition	Group E · Group F · Group G · Group H Anadolu Efes · Bennet Cantù · CSKA Moscow · EA7 Emporio Armani · FC Barcelona Regal · Fenerbahçe Ülker · Galatasaray Medical Park · Gescrap Bizkaia · Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv · Montepaschi Siena · Olympiacos · Panathinaikos · Real Madrid · Unicaja · UNICS Kazan · Žalgiris Kaunas

Eliminated in Regular Season	Group A · Group B · Group C · Group D Asseco Prokom Gdynia · Brose Baskets · Caja Laboral · KK Zagreb · Partizan Mt:s Belgrade · SLUC Nancy · Spirou Basket · Union Olimpija Ljubljana

Eliminated in Third Qualifying Round	ČEZ Nymburk · Lietuvos Rytas

Eliminated in Second Qualifying Round	Alba Berlin · ASVEL Basket · BC Khimki · Cibona Zagreb

Eliminated in First Qualifying Round	Banvit · BC Donetsk · BCM Gravelines · Cholet Basket · KK Budućnost · P.A.O.K. · PGE Turów · VEF Rīga

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