2009–10 Eurocup Basketball
Eurocup 2009–10 | |
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League | Eurocup |
Sport | Basketball |
Duration | October 20, 2009 – April 18, 2010 |
Season MVP |
Marko Banić (Bizkaia Bilbao) |
Top scorer |
Darius Washington (Galatasaray Café Crown) |
Finals | |
Champions | Power Electronics Valencia |
Runners-up | Alba Berlin |
Finals MVP |
Matt Nielsen (Power Electronics Valencia) |
2009–10 Eurocup Basketball was the eighth edition of Europe's second-tier level transnational competition for men's professional basketball clubs, the EuroCup. The EuroCup is the European-wide league level that is one tier below the EuroLeague level. It began with qualifying round matches on October 20, 2009, and ended with the Eurocup Finals on April 17 and 18, 2010, at Fernando Buesa Arena in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain. The competition was won by Spanish club Power Electronics Valencia, who won their second EuroCup title, and also secured a place in the 2010–11 edition of the EuroCup's parent competition, the EuroLeague.
For the first time, the EuroCup conducted a four-team final round, as in the EuroLeague. To accommodate this change, a quarterfinal round was introduced. As in the EuroLeague, where the top two teams from each of the four groups in its Top 16 phase advanced to the quarterfinals, the top two teams from each group in the analogous Last 16 phase advanced to the quarterfinals. However, the structure of the EuroCup quarterfinals was very different from that of the EuroLeague — instead of a best-of-5 series, as in the EuroLeague, each EuroCup quarterfinal was a two-legged tie, with the winner determined on aggregate score. Unlike virtually all other basketball competitions, the quarterfinals did not use overtime, unless necessary to break an aggregate tie.[1]
Teams of the 2009–2010 Eurocup
Qualifying round
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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MyGuide Amsterdam | 112–141 | Dynamo Moscow | 64–63 | 48–78 |
Dexia Mons-Hainaut | 139–142 | Power Electronics Valencia | 78–63 | 61–79 |
Kraftwerk Wels | 155–169 | Beşiktaş Cola Turka | 74–69 | 81–100 |
VEF Rīga | 158–168 | Panellinios | 79–94 | 79–74 |
Brose Baskets | 129–128 | Budućnost | 64–61 | 65–67 |
Donetsk | 150–153 | Bizkaia Bilbao | 71–63 | 79–90 |
APOEL | 139–140 | Bancatercas Teramo | 77–63 | 62–77 |
Chorale Roanne | 162–169 | Hapoel Migdal | 83–81 | 79–88 |
Regular season
Top two places in each group advance to Top 16 |
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Group E
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Group F
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Group G
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Group H
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Top 16
Top two places in each group advance to Quarterfinals |
Group I
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Group J
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Group K
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Group L
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Quarterfinals
The quarterfinals were two-legged ties determined on aggregate score. The first leg of the Bilbao–Nymburk tie was played on March 23, with all other first legs played on March 24. All return legs were played on March 31. The group winner in each tie, listed as "Team #1", hosted the second leg.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Alba Berlin | 133–126 | Hapoel Migdal | 61–67 | 72–59 |
Power Electronics Valencia | 156–131 | Aris | 71–64 | 85–67 |
Bizkaia Bilbao | 105–99 | ČEZ Nymburk | 59–47 | 46–52 |
Gran Canaria 2014 | 145–149 | Panellinios | 70–81 | 75–68 |
Final four
The first-ever "final four" in the history of the competition, officially called the Eurocup Finals, was held at Fernando Buesa Arena in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Euroleague Basketball Company was initially noncommital on whether it would schedule a third-place game, but ultimately decided to do so.
Semifinals
April 17, Fernando Buesa Arena, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Alba Berlin | 77–70 | Bizkaia Bilbao |
Power Electronics Valencia | 92–80 | Panellinios |
3rd place game
April 18, Fernando Buesa Arena, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Bizkaia Bilbao | 76–67 | Panellinios |
Final
April 19, Fernando Buesa Arena, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Alba Berlin | 44–67 | Power Electronics Valencia |
2009–10 Eurocup Champions |
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Power Electronics Valencia 2nd Title |
Final standings
Team | |
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Power Electronics Valencia | |
Alba Berlin | |
Bizkaia Bilbao | |
Panellinios |
Awards
MVP Weekly
Regular Season
Week | Player | Team | Performance Index Rating |
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1. | Radoslav Rančík | Galatasaray Café Crown | 41 |
2. | Mire Chatman | Beşiktaş Cola Turka | 42 |
3. | Mindaugas Kuzminskas | Šiauliai | 34 |
4. | Darius Washington | Galatasaray Café Crown | 45 |
5. | Brandon Hunter | Hapoel Jerusalem | 33 |
6. | Mike Taylor | Crvena zvezda | 35 |
Top 16
Week | Player | Team | Performance Index Rating |
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1. | Marko Popović Julius Jenkins | UNICS Kazan Alba Berlin | 26 |
2. | Philip Ricci | ČEZ Nymburk | 34 |
3. | Matt Nielsen | Valencia | 29 |
4. | Víctor Claver Devin Smith | Valencia Panellinios | 26 |
5. | Casey Jacobsen | Brose Baskets | 31 |
6. | Marc Salyers | Le Mans | 33 |
Quarterfinals
Game | Player | Team | Performance Index Rating |
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1. | Brandon Hunter | Hapoel Jerusalem | 32 |
2. | Matt Nielsen | Valencia | 25 |
Eurocup MVP
Eurocup Finals MVP
All-Eurocup Team
Position | All-Eurocup First Team | Club Team | All-Eurocup Second Team | Club Team |
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Nando De Colo | Valencia | Arthur Lee | ČEZ Nymburk | |
Immanuel McElroy | ALBA Berlin | Kostas Charalampidis | Panellinios | |
Devin Smith | Panellinios | Dijon Thompson | Hapoel Jerusalem | |
Marko Banić | Bilbao | James Augustine | Gran Canaria | |
Matt Nielsen | Valencia | Blagota Sekulić | ALBA Berlin |
Coach of the Year
Rising Star
Individual statistics
Points
Rank | Name | Team | Games | Points | PPG |
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1. | Darius Washington | Galatasaray Café Crown | 11 | 238 | 21.64 |
2. | Gary Neal | Benetton Basket | 11 | 212 | 19.27 |
3. | Radoslav Rančík | Galatasaray Café Crown | 12 | 226 | 18.83 |
4. | Marko Popović | UNICS Kazan | 12 | 219 | 18.25 |
5. | Dewarick Spencer | Le Mans | 12 | 211 | 17.58 |
Rebounds
Rank | Name | Team | Games | Rebounds | RPG |
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1. | James Augustine | Gran Canaria 2014 | 14 | 104 | 7.43 |
2. | Radoslav Rančík | Galatasaray Café Crown | 12 | 83 | 6.92 |
3 | Mike Wilkinson | Galatasaray Café Crown | 12 | 78 | 6.50 |
4. | Simas Jasaitis | Galatasaray Café Crown | 12 | 76 | 6.33 |
5. | Erwin Dudley | Türk Telekom | 11 | 69 | 6.27 |
Assists
Rank | Name | Team | Games | Assists | APG |
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1. | Marko Popović | UNICS Kazan | 12 | 57 | 4.75 |
2. | Kristaps Valters | DKV Joventut | 12 | 56 | 4.67 |
3. | Darius Washington | Galatasaray Café Crown | 11 | 50 | 4.55 |
4. | Tutku Açık | Türk Telekom | 12 | 53 | 4.42 |
5. | Yuval Naimy | Hapoel Jerusalem | 14 | 60 | 4.29 |
Notes and references
- ↑ "Eurocup 2009–10 Competition System". ULEB. Archived from the original on 8 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-10.
- ↑ 2009-10 Eurocup MVP: Marko Banic, Bizkaia Bilbao Basket
- ↑ Matt Nielsen, MVP
- ↑ Eurocup Official Web
- ↑ 2009-10 Eurocup Coach of the Year: Ilias Zouros, Panellinios BC
- ↑ 2009-10 Eurocup Rising Star Trophy Victor Claver, Power Electronics Valencia