2017 Liga Sudamericana de Básquetbol

Liga Sudamericana de Básquetbol

Competition details
Season	2017
Teams	16
Games played	40
Dates	3 October – 15 December 2017
Final positions
Champions	Guaros de Lara (1st title)
Runners-up	Estudiantes Concordia
Awards
MVP	Heissler Guillént
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The 2017 Liga Sudamericana de Básquetbol was the 22nd edition of the second-tier level intercontinental professional club basketball competition in the Americas, the FIBA Americas League. Sixteen teams from across the Americas competed over three rounds, to determine the champion.

Team allocation

Teams

Group phase
San Martín de Corrientes (3rd)	Pinheiros (3rd)	Hebraica Macabi (1st)	HR Portoviejo (1st)
Quilmes (4th)	Vitória (4th)	Aguada (2nd)	Olimpia (1st)
Estudiantes Concordia (5th)	Flamengo (5th)	Malvín (CW)	Guaros de Lara (2nd)
Osorno (2nd)	Cimarrones (1st)	Calero (1st)	Regatas Lima (1st)

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: Americas League title holders):

• LC: Qualified through a licensed club with a long-term licence
• 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• CW: Cup winner

Group phase

Sixteen teams participated in the group phase, in which each team faced the other teams in the group once. Each group tournament was held at the arena of a host team. The two highest-placed teams in each group advance to the semifinal phase. Games were played from 3 to 26 October 2017.

Group A

Venue: Quibdó, Colombia

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	San Martín de Corrientes	3	3	0	247	202	+45	6	Advance to semifinal phase
2	Cimmarones (H)	3	2	1	229	228	+1	5
3	Soles de Mexicali	3	1	2	225	220	+5	4
4	Hebraica Macabi	3	0	3	192	243	−51	3

Source: FIBA
(H) Host.

Group B

Venue: Montevideo, Uruguay

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pinheiros	3	2	1	262	227	+35	5	Advance to semifinal phase
2	Quilmes	3	2	1	262	235	+27	5
3	Aguada (H)	3	2	1	264	224	+40	5
4	Osorno	3	0	3	213	315	−102	3

Source: FIBA
(H) Host.

Group C

Venue: Salvador, Brazil

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Guaros de Lara	3	3	0	245	204	+41	6	Advance to semifinal phase
2	Estudiantes Concordia	3	2	1	218	204	+14	5
3	Universo/Vitória (H)	3	1	2	205	237	−32	4
4	Malvín	3	0	3	194	217	−23	3

Source: FIBA
(H) Host.

Group D

Venue:

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Olimpia	3	3	0	266	205	+61	6	Advance to semifinal phase
2	Regatas Lima	3	2	1	221	219	+2	5
3	Deportivo Calero	3	1	2	245	251	−6	4
4	HR Portoviejo	3	0	3	226	284	−58	3

Source: FIBA

Semifinal phase

The eight teams which advance from the group phase, played in this stage in which each team faced the other teams in the group once. Each group tournament was held at the arena of a host team. The highest-placed teams in each group advance to the finals. Games were played from 7 to 16 November 2017.

Group E

Venue: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Estudiantes Concordia	3	2	1	218	223	−5	5	Advance to Finals
2	Pinheiros	3	2	1	254	215	+39	5
3	Olimpia	3	1	2	214	254	−40	4
4	Flamengo (H)	3	1	2	239	233	+6	4

Source: FIBA
(H) Host.

Group F

Venue: Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Guaros de Lara (H)	3	3	0	251	233	+18	6	Advance to Finals
2	Quilmes	3	1	2	249	238	+11	4
3	Cimarrones	3	1	2	277	275	+2	4
4	Aguada	3	1	2	228	259	−31	4

Source: FIBA
(H) Host.

Finals

The finals were decided in a best-of-five playoff format. Games were played on 6, 7, 13 and 14 December 2017.^[1] The team with the higher record in the LSB thusfar would play Games 1, 2 and 5 (if necessary) at home.

Team 1	Series	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg
Guaros de Lara	3–1	Estudiantes Concordia	77–74	88–83	68–74	82–79

References