2017–18 EuroCup Basketball

For the 2017–18 season, the EuroCup went back to the initial format for the 2016–17 season which includes 24 teams playing in four regular season groups, with 16 teams advancing to the Top 16 phase, featuring four groups of four teams each. Eight teams will qualify for best-of-three quarterfinals, which will be followed by best-of-three semifinals and best-of-three finals.[1]

A total of 24 teams from 12 countries participated in the 2017–18 EuroCup Basketball.[1][2]

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:[1][2]

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• WC: Wild card

Regular season
Cedevita (2nd)[Note ABA]	Herbalife Gran Canaria (7th)	ratiopharm Ulm (3rd)	Darüşşafaka (4th)
Partizan NIS (3rd)[Note ABA]	MoraBanc Andorra (8th)[Note ESP]	Bayern Munich (4th)	Galatasaray Odeabank (6th)
Budućnost VOLI (4th)[Note ABA]	RETAbet Bilbao Basket (10th)	Alba Berlin (WC)	Tofaş (WC)
Zenit Saint Petersburg (3rd)	Levallois Metropolitans (3rd)	Dolomiti Energia Trento (2nd)	Lietkabelis (2nd)
Lokomotiv Kuban (4th)	ASVEL (4th)	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia (6th)	Lietuvos rytas (WC)
UNICS (5th)	Limoges CSP (WC)	Fiat Torino (WC)	Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem (1st)

Notes

1. ^
   ABA League (ABA): Cedevita, Partizan NIS and Budućnost VOLI qualified through the ABA League.
2. ^
   Spain (ESP): MoraBanc Andorra is a club based in Andorra (which does not qualify for European competitions), but participate in European competitions through one of the berths for Spain (any coefficient points they earn count toward Spain).

The schedule of the competition is as follows.[4][3]

Draw

The draw was held on 6 July 2017, 13:30 CEST, at the Mediapro Auditorium in Barcelona.[4] The 24 teams were drawn into four groups of six, with the restriction that teams from the same country could not be drawn against each other. For this purpose, Adriatic League worked as only one country. For the draw, the teams were seeded into six pots, in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period and the lowest possible position that any club from that league can occupy in the draw is calculated by adding the results of the worst performing team from each league.[4]

Pot 1 Team Pts Lokomotiv Kuban 133 Herbalife Gran Canaria 125 Galatasaray Odeabank 120 UNICS 113	Pot 2 Team Pts Bayern Munich 96 Zenit Saint Petersburg 90 Darüşşafaka 90 Alba Berlin 86	Pot 3 Team Pts Cedevita 85 Tofaş 80† Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem 71† Lietuvos rytas 65
Pot 4 Team Pts Dolomiti Energia Trento 63† Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia 63† Fiat Torino 63† RETAbet Bilbao Basket 60†	Pot 5 Team Pts MoraBanc Andorra 60† Lietkabelis 54 Limoges CSP 48 ratiopharm Ulm 43†	Pot 6 Team Pts Budućnost VOLI 42 Levallois Metropolitans 35 Partizan NIS 35† ASVEL 25†

Notes

^† Indicates teams with points applying the minimum for the league they play.

Cedevita

ASVEL

Levallois

Limoges

Bayern

Berlin

Ulm

Hapoel

Trento

Torino

Reggio Emilia

Lietkabelis

Lietuvos rytas

Budućnost

Lokomotiv

UNICS

Zenit

Partizan

Andorra

Bilbao

Gran Canaria
(not on map)

Istanbul

Tofaş

Istanbul teams
Darüşşafaka
Galatasaray Odeabank

Location of teams of the 2017–18 EuroCup regular season.
Red: Group A; Green: Group B; Blue: Group C; Yellow: Group D.

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners, runners-up, third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams advanced to the Top 16, while the fifth-placed teams and sixth-placed teams were eliminated. The rounds were on 10–11 October, 17–18 October, 24–25 October, 31 October–1 November, 7–8 November, 14–15 November, 5–6 December, 12–13 December, 19–20 December and 26–27 December 2017.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		DAC	UNK	CED	TOR	AND	LVM
1	Darüşşafaka	10	8	2	805	716	+89	Advance to Top 16		—	78–69	85–83	75–77	85–77	100–67
2	UNICS	10	7	3	794	760	+34			75–79	—	78–61	101–93	89–80	76–68
3	Cedevita	10	5	5	821	785	+36			89–83	94–74	—	83–86	91–73	94–79
4	Fiat Torino	10	5	5	793	842	−49			60–89	72–79	65–87	—	92–86	92–86
5	MoraBanc Andorra	10	3	7	784	810	−26			68–69	68–76	78–71	83–77	—	79–61
6	Levallois Metropolitans	10	2	8	755	839	−84			64–69	67–77	91–81	73–79	99–92	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		BAY	GSO	REG	BUD	LIE	JER
1	Bayern Munich	10	9	1	881	749	+132	Advance to Top 16		—	86–78	83–58	85–82	93–57	111–85
2	Galatasaray Odeabank	10	5	5	795	770	+25			69–86	—	82–72	82–61	73–78	87–68
3	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	10	5	5	739	747	−8			90–82	74–71	—	77–71	82–85	61–63
4	Budućnost VOLI	10	5	5	776	776	0			60–76	87–78	82–74	—	76–62	92–75
5	Lietkabelis	10	4	6	761	812	−51			87–88	77–84	75–82	86–79	—	86–72
6	Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem	10	2	8	767	865	−98			83–91	81–91	66–79	81–86	93–81	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		LOK	LRY	ALB	LIM	RBB	PAR
1	Lokomotiv Kuban	10	10	0	851	710	+141	Advance to Top 16		—	77–68	75–59	81–55	102–86	99–64
2	Lietuvos rytas	10	6	4	855	796	+59			85–93	—	94–73	92–76	83–93	93–75
3	Alba Berlin	10	6	4	847	812	+35			84–89	93–86	—	78–84	86–68	111–85
4	Limoges CSP	10	5	5	787	804	−17			61–63	69–71	65–73	—	86–74	92–83
5	RETAbet Bilbao Basket	10	2	8	821	899	−78			69–91	79–96	86–94	91–98	—	92–96
6	Partizan NIS	10	1	9	811	951	−140			83–93	80–91	80–96	98–101	67–83	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		ASV	TRE	ZEN	HGC	TOF	ULM
1	ASVEL	10	7	3	856	814	+42	Advance to Top 16		—	79–67	88–85	68–84	84–74	108–77
2	Dolomiti Energia Trento	10	6	4	830	797	+33			85–75	—	103–81	79–76	88–91	77–66
3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	10	6	4	862	864	−2			89–92	81–70	—	90–85	84–82	90–78
4	Herbalife Gran Canaria	10	5	5	884	837	+47			128–129	85–76	97–87	—	92–71	97–84
5	Tofaş	10	4	6	826	861	−35			82–81	79–91	76–80	98–94	—	100–84
6	ratiopharm Ulm	10	2	8	830	915	−85			84–94	84–94	93–95	97–87	83–73	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the Playoffs, while the third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams were eliminated. The rounds were on 2–3 January, 9–10 January, 16–17 January, 23–24 January, 30–31 January and 6–7 February 2018.

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		DAC	HGC	ALB	GSO
1	Darüşşafaka	6	5	1	480	412	+68	Advance to quarterfinals		—	88–70	82–70	77–63
2	Herbalife Gran Canaria	6	4	2	507	484	+23			78–70	—	100–81	76–87
3	Alba Berlin	6	2	4	469	483	−14			66–79	72–75	—	95–62
4	Galatasaray Odeabank	6	1	5	448	525	−77			65–84	86–108	92–97	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) will not be counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		BAY	ZEN	TOR	LRY
1	Bayern Munich	6	5	1	526	480	+46	Advance to quarterfinals		—	95–78	107–81	81–68
2	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	4	2	549	528	+21			78–80	—	95–84	113–100
3	Fiat Torino	6	2	4	479	543	−64			90–76	73–87	—	83–77
4	Lietuvos rytas	6	1	5	527	530	−3			85–87	96–98	101–68	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) will not be counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		LOK	BUD	TRE	CED
1	Lokomotiv Kuban	6	6	0	470	392	+78	Advance to quarterfinals		—	77–66	97–69	69–64
2	Budućnost VOLI	6	4	2	451	420	+31			62–68	—	79–66	84–52
3	Dolomiti Energia Trento	6	2	4	452	481	−29			71–74	105–106	—	83–72
4	Cedevita	6	0	6	400	480	−80			60–85	75–78	77–81	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) will not be counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		REG	UNK	ASV	LIM
1	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	6	4	2	444	414	+30	Advance to quarterfinals		—	76–75	75–68	87–54
2	UNICS	6	4	2	447	437	+10			69–71	—	88–84	88–78
3	ASVEL	6	3	3	461	424	+37			68–64	77–83	—	92–78
4	Limoges CSP	6	1	5	417	494	−77			80–71	66–69	61–87	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) will not be counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

In the playoffs, teams played against each other must win two games to win the series. Thus, if one team wins two games before all three games have been played, the game that remains is omitted. The team that finished in the higher Top 16 place will play the first and the third (if it is necessary) legs of the series at home. The playoffs involves the eight teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the four groups in the Top 16.

Bracket

	Quarterfinals						Semifinals						Finals
	Lokomotiv Kuban		79	80
	Herbalife Gran Canaria		74	58
							Lokomotiv Kuban		82	79
							Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia		65	69
	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	75	77	105
	Zenit Saint Petersburg	61	91	99
													Lokomotiv Kuban		78	59
													Darüşşafaka		81	67
	Darüşşafaka		57	78
	Budućnost VOLI		54	71
							Darüşşafaka		76	87
							Bayern Munich		74	83
	Bayern Munich	83	73	91
	UNICS	75	80	81

Quarterfinals

The first legs were played on 6 March, the second legs were played on 9 March and the third legs, if necessary, were played on 14 March 2018.

Team 1	Series	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Darüşşafaka	2–0	Budućnost VOLI	57–54	78–71	0
Bayern Munich	2–1	UNICS	83–75	73–80	91–81
Lokomotiv Kuban	2–0	Herbalife Gran Canaria	79–74	80–58	0
Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	2–1	Zenit Saint Petersburg	75–61	77–91	105–99

Semifinals

The first legs were played on 20 March, the second legs were played on 23 March, and the third legs were scheduled for 28 March 2018.

Team 1	Series	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Darüşşafaka	2–0	Bayern Munich	76–74	87–83	0
Lokomotiv Kuban	2–0	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	82–65	79–69	0

Finals

Main article: 2018 EuroCup Finals

The first leg will be played on 10 April, the second leg will be played on 13 April, and the third leg was scheduled to 16 April 2018, if necessary.

Team 1	Series	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Lokomotiv Kuban	0–2	Darüşşafaka	78–81	59–67	0

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