2001–02 Euroleague

Main article: Euroleague
2001–02 Euroleague
League Euroleague
Sport Basketball
Season
Season MVP Turkey Mirsad Türkcan (CSKA Moscow) (Regular Season)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dejan Bodiroga (Panathinaikos) (Top 16)
Top scorer United States Alphonso Ford (Olympiacos)
Final Four
Champions Greece Panathinaikos
  Runners-up Italy Kinder Bologna
Final Four MVP Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dejan Bodiroga (Panathinaikos)

The Euroleague is an international professional basketball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe. The Euroleague season 2001–02 started on October 10, 2001, and ended with the championship final game on May 5, 2002, in PalaMalaguti, Bologna, Italy. 32 teams competed for the championship, which was won by Panathinaikos. Mirsad Türkcan was the regular season MVP, and Dejan Bodiroga was the Top 16 and Euroleague Final Four MVP.

First Qualifying Round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Darüşşafaka Turkey 135–171 Germany Telekom Bonn 81–94 54–77
Lietuvos Rytas Lithuania 158–159 Croatia Croatia Osiguranje Split 87–71 71–88
Alvik Sweden –* Slovenia Krka

*Alvik withdrew.

Second Qualifying Round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Portugal Telekom Lisbon Portugal 150–198 Belgium Spirou Charleroi 77–92 73–106
Telekom Bonn Germany 166–159 Croatia Croatia Osiguranje Split 76–73 90–86
Krka Slovenia –* Switzerland Lugano Snakes
Le Mans France –** Israel Hapoel Jerusalem

*Lugano Snakes withdrew.

**Le Mans withdrew.

Third Qualifying Round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Spirou Charleroi Belgium 162–141 Israel Hapoel Jerusalem 84–70 78–71
Krka Slovenia 162–153 Germany Telekom Bonn 89–82 73–71

Regular season

The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into four groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 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.

If one or more clubs are level on won-lost record, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

  1. Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
  2. Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
  3. Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs are not in the same group)
  4. Points scored in all group matches
  5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match
Key to colors
     Top four places in each group advance to Top 16

Group A

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Italy Benetton Treviso 14 11 3 1206 1142 +64
2. Israel Maccabi Elite 14 10 4 1101 1021 +80
3. Greece Olympiacos 14 10 4 1205 1098 +107
4. Turkey Efes Pilsen 14 9 5 1059 1032 +27
5. Spain Unicaja Málaga 14 6 8 1054 1052 +2
6. Poland Śląsk Wrocław 14 4 10 1001 1061 -60
7. Germany Alba Berlin 14 3 11 1065 1153 -88
8. Belgium Spirou Charleroi 14 3 11 1049 1181 -132

Group B

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Italy Kinder Bologna 14 12 2 1163 969 +194
2. Spain FC Barcelona 14 10 4 1211 1050 +161
3. Turkey Ülker 14 9 5 1104 1051 +53
4. Slovenia Union Olimpija 14 9 5 1085 971 +114
5. Germany Opel Skyliners 14 8 6 1037 1060 -23
6. Lithuania Žalgiris 14 5 9 1054 1097 -43
7. Greece Peristeri 14 3 11 1058 1158 -100
8. United Kingdom London Towers 14 0 14 910 1266 -356

Group C

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Greece Panathinaikos 14 12 2 1176 1073 +103
2. Spain Real Madrid 14 9 5 1211 1123 +88
3. Italy Skipper Bologna 14 8 6 1193 1151 +42
4. Russia CSKA Moscow 14 8 6 1221 1189 +32
5. Slovenia Krka 14 7 7 1245 1222 +23
6. France Pau-Orthez 14 7 7 1126 1114 +12
7. Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Budućnost 14 3 11 1108 1257 -149
8. Croatia Zadar 14 2 12 1156 1307 -151

Group D

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Spain Tau Cerámica 14 9 5 1219 1057 +162
2. Greece AEK 14 9 5 1152 1102 +50
3. Russia Ural Great 14 8 6 1266 1260 +6
4. Italy Scavolini Pesaro 14 8 6 1124 1137 -13
5. France ASVEL 14 8 6 1147 1135 +12
6. Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Partizan 14 6 8 1138 1191 -53
7. Croatia Cibona 14 5 9 1110 1165 -55
8. Belgium Telindus Oostende 14 3 11 1138 1247 -109

Top 16

The remaining 16 teams were placed into four groups of four teams each. Each team played every other team in its group twice, once at home and once away. The top teams of each of the four groups advanced to the Final Four.

Key to colors
     Top place in each group advance to Final four

Group E

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Italy Benetton Treviso 6 4 2 538 481 +57
2. Spain FC Barcelona 6 4 2 499 483 +16
3. Italy Skipper Bologna 6 2 4 482 509 -27
4. Italy Scavolini Pesaro 6 2 4 487 514 -27

Group F

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Italy Kinder Bologna 6 4 2 460 432 +28
2. Turkey Efes Pilsen 6 3 3 506 481 +25
3. Spain Real Madrid 6 3 3 500 528 -28
4. Russia Ural Great 6 2 4 516 541 -25

Group G

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Greece Panathinaikos 6 5 1 496 467 +29
2. Greece Olympiacos 6 4 2 480 452 +28
3. Greece AEK 6 2 4 474 475 -1
4. Slovenia Union Olimpija 6 1 5 450 506 -56

Group H

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Israel Maccabi Elite 6 4 2 410 370 +40
2. Spain Tau Cerámica 6 4 2 496 472 +24
3. Russia CSKA Moscow 6 3 3 486 485 +1
4. Turkey Ülker 6 1 5 395 460 -65

Final Four

Semifinals

May 3, PalaMalaguti, Bologna

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Benetton Treviso Italy 82–90 Italy Kinder Bologna
Panathinaikos Greece 83–75 Israel Maccabi Elite

Final

May 5, PalaMalaguti, Bologna

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Kinder Bologna Italy 83–89 Greece Panathinaikos
2001–02 Euroleague
Champions
Greece
Panathinaikos
3rd Title

Final standings

Team
Greece Panathinaikos
Italy Kinder Bologna
Italy Benetton Treviso
Israel Maccabi Elite

Final Four 2002 MVP

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dejan Bodiroga (Panathinaikos)


Awards

Regular Season MVP

Top 16 MVP

Final Four MVP

All-Euroleague First Team 2001-2002

All-Euroleague Second Team 2001-2002

References and notes

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