FIBA SuproLeague was the FIBA professional club basketball Champions' Cup for the 2000-01 season. Up until that season, there was one cup, the FIBA European Champions' Cup (which is now called the Euroleague), though in this season of 2000-01, the leading European teams split into two competitions: the FIBA SuproLeague and the ULEB's Euroleague 2000-01.
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The Euroleague (or historically called, the European Champions' Cup) was originally established by FIBA, and it operated under its umbrella from 1958 until the summer of 2000, including the 1999-00 season. That was when ULEB, short for the Union of European Leagues of Basketball, was created by the 24 richest European club teams, most of them from Spain, Italy and Greece.
Amazingly, FIBA had never trademarked the Euroleague name and ULEB simply used it without any legal ramifications because FIBA had no legal recourse to do anything about it, so they had to find a new name for their league. Thus, the following 2000-01 season started with 2 separate top European basketball competitions: the FIBA SuproLeague (known previously as the FIBA Euroleague up to that point) and the brand new ULEB Euroleague.
The rift in European club basketball initially showed no signs of letting up. Top clubs were also split between the two leagues: Panathinaikos, Maccabi Tel Aviv, CSKA Moscow and Efes Pilsen stayed with FIBA, while Olympiacos Piraeus, Kinder Bologna, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, TAU Cerámica and Benetton Treviso joined ULEB.
The first phase was a regular season, in which the twenty competing teams were drawn into two groups, each containing ten teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 18 games for each team. The top 8 teams in each group advanced to the Round of 16, and the winners of this round advanced to the Quarter-finals. Both of the rounds were played in a Best-of-three playoff System. The winning teams of the Quarter-finals qualified to the Final Four, which was held in the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris on 10–13 in May 2001.
| Team | Pld | W | L | Diff | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Panathinaikos | 18 | 13 | 5 | 113 |
| 2. | CSKA Moscow | 18 | 12 | 6 | 53 |
| 3. | Osiguranje Split | 18 | 12 | 6 | 28 |
| 4. | Ülkerspor | 18 | 11 | 7 | 62 |
| 5. | ALBA Berlin | 18 | 9 | 9 | 31 |
| 6. | ASVEL Villeurbanne | 18 | 9 | 9 | 13 |
| 7. | Rytas Vilnius | 18 | 7 | 11 | -14 |
| 8. | Śląsk Wrocław | 18 | 7 | 11 | -14 |
| 9. | Montepaschi Mens Sana | 18 | 6 | 12 | -89 |
| 10. | Maccabi Raanana | 18 | 4 | 14 | -183 |
| Team | Pld | W | L | Diff | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 18 | 15 | 3 | 273 |
| 2. | Efes Pilsen | 18 | 13 | 5 | 92 |
| 3. | KK Partizan | 18 | 11 | 7 | -25 |
| 4. | Iraklis BC | 18 | 10 | 8 | -10 |
| 5. | Scavolini Pesaro | 18 | 9 | 9 | 76 |
| 6. | EB Pau-Orthez | 18 | 9 | 9 | 54 |
| 7. | Telindus Oostende | 18 | 8 | 10 | -66 |
| 8. | KK Krka | 18 | 7 | 11 | -86 |
| 9. | Bayer 04 Leverkusen | 18 | 6 | 12 | -65 |
| 10. | Plannja Basket | 18 | 2 | 16 | -243 |
| Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg | 3rd leg* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (B1) Maccabi Tel Aviv | 2 - 0 | Śląsk Wrocław (A8) | 81 - 75 | 85 - 62 | – |
| (A4) Ülkerspor | 1 - 2 | Scavolini Pesaro (B5) | 91 - 81 | 83 - 96 | 85 - 88 |
| (B3) KK Partizan | 1 - 2 | ASVEL Villeurbanne (A6) | 80 - 73 | 76 - 94 | 62 - 73 |
| (A2) CSKA Moscow | 2 - 0 | Telindus Oostende (B7) | 94 - 76 | 77 - 70 | – |
| (B2) Efes Pilsen | 2 - 1 | Rytas Vilnius (A7) | 89 - 78 | 69 - 73 | 86 - 67 |
| (A3) Osiguranje Split | 2 - 0 | EB Pau-Orthez (B6) | 79 - 78 | 85 - 83 | – |
| (B4) Iraklis BC | 1 - 2 | ALBA Berlin (A5) | 78 - 67 | 77 - 88 | 75 - 86 |
| (A1) Panathinaikos | 2 - 0 | KK Krka (B8) | 82 - 65 | 84 - 79 | – |
* if necessary
| Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg | 3rd leg* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (B1) Maccabi Tel Aviv | 2 - 0 | Scavolini Pesaro (B5) | 80 - 69 | 84 - 77 | – |
| (A2) CSKA Moscow | 2 - 0 | ASVEL Villeurbanne (A6) | 78 - 63 | 82 - 76 | – |
| (B2) Efes Pilsen | 2 - 1 | Osiguranje Split (A3) | 95 - 69 | 64 - 72 | 82 - 59 |
| (A1) Panathinaikos | 2 - 0 | ALBA Berlin (A5) | 87 - 77 | 71 - 69 | – |
| Semi-finals | Final | ||||||
| May 11, Bercy | |||||||
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 86 | ||||||
| CSKA Moscow | 80 | ||||||
| May 13, Bercy | |||||||
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 81 | ||||||
| Panathinaikos | 67 | ||||||
| Third place | |||||||
| May 11, Bercy | May 13, Bercy | ||||||
| Panathinaikos | 74 | Efes Pilsen | 91 | ||||
| Efes Pilsen | 66 | CSKA Moscow | 85 | ||||
| May 11 18:00 |
(Report) | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 86–80 | CSKA Moscow | Palais de Bercy, France Attendance: 13,200 |
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| Scoring by quarter: 21-19, 16-24, 23-9, 26-28 | ||||||
| Pts: Huffman 17 Rebs: Parker 9 Asts: Parker 7 |
Pts: Kirilenko 23 Rebs: Kirilenko 11 Asts: Kirilenko 2 |
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| May 11 20:30 |
(Report) | Panathinaikos | 74–66 | Efes Pilsen | Palais de Bercy, France Attendance: 13,200 |
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| Scoring by quarter: 23-10, 15-13, 15-25, 21-18 | ||||||
| Pts: Bodiroga 22 Rebs: Alvertis 6 Asts: Bodiroga 5 |
Pts: Onan 15 Rebs: Besok 8 Asts: Onan 3 |
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| May 13 18:00 |
(Report) | Efes Pilsen | 91–85 | CSKA Moscow | Palais de Bercy, France Attendance: 13,200 |
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| Scoring by quarter: 14-17, 29-31, 17-20, 25-23 | ||||||
| Pts: Drobnjak 25 Rebs: Besok 9 Asts: Mulaomerović 12 |
Pts: Morgunov 16 Rebs: Morgunov 12 Asts: Domani 4 |
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| May 13 20:30 |
(Report) | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 81–67 | Panathinaikos | Palais de Bercy, France Attendance: 13,200 |
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| Scoring by quarter: 15-13, 22-10, 17-25, 27-19 | ||||||
| Pts: McDonald 21 Rebs: Huffman 9 Asts: McDonald 9 |
Pts: Bodiroga 27 Rebs: Fotsis 8 Asts: Koch 3 |
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In May 2001, Europe had two continental champions, Maccabi Tel Aviv of the FIBA SuproLeague and Kinder Bologna of the ULEB Euroleague. The leaders of both organizations realized the need to come up with a new single competition. Negotiating from the position of strength, ULEB dictated proceedings and FIBA essentially had no choice but to agree to their terms. As a result, the Euroleague was fully integrated under ULEB's umbrella and teams that competed in the FIBA SuproLeague during the 2000-01 season joined it as well. It is today officially admitted that European basketball had two champions that year, Maccabi of the FIBA SuproLeague and Kinder Bologna of the ULEB Euroleague.
A year later, ULEB and FIBA decided that ULEB's Euroleague competition would be the main basketball tournament on the continent, to be played between the top level teams of Europe. FIBA Europe would also organize a European league for third tier level teams, known as the FIBA Europe League competition, while ULEB would also organize its own second tier level league, combining FIBA's long-time Korać Cup and Saporta Cup competitions into one new competition, the ULEB Cup. In 2005, ULEB and FIBA decided to cooperate with each other and have been jointly cooperating since then.
In essence, the authority in European professional club basketball was divided over club-country lines. FIBA stayed in charge of national team competitions (like the EuroBasket, the FIBA World Championship, and Summer Olympics Basketball) while ULEB took over the European professional club competitions. From that point on, FIBA's Korać Cup and Saporta Cup competitions lasted only one more season before folding, which was when ULEB launched the ULEB Cup.
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