The 2013–14 Baltic Basketball League was the 10th anniversary season of the
Baltic Basketball League
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.
This time the format featured 21 teams – 6 from
Lithuania
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, 6 from
Estonia
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, 5 from
Latvia
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Kazakhstan
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and 1 from
Sweden
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and
Finland
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. For the regular season the teams were divided into three groups of seven teams and competed in a round-robin competition system, with each team facing their opponent twice. Top five teams of each group and the best sixth placed team qualified for the eight-finals. All play-off games were played in home-and-away series.
The Finals were a Lithuanian clash as
Šiauliai
Šiauliai (; bat-smg, Šiaulē; german: Schaulen, ) is the fourth largest city in Lithuania, with a population of 107,086. From 1994 to 2010 it was the capital of Šiauliai County.
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took the 2014 title by beating
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140–123 on aggregate score. Estonian team
Tartu Ülikool/Rock
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won their second Baltic League bronze by beating
Tampereen Pyrintö
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of Finland with aggregate score of 149–127.
Teams
Regular season
If teams are level on record at the end of the Regular season, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
# Points.
# Points counting the games between tied teams only.
# Point difference between tied teams.
# League-wide point difference.
The criteria for determination of the best team placed 6th:
– Total number of points in each group.
– Total point average in each group
Group A
Group B
Group C
Play-offs
In the knockout phase rounds will be played in a home-and-away format, with the overall cumulative score determining the winner of a round. Thus, the score of one single game can be tied.
All qualified teams for the BBL Eighth-finals will be classified from 1st place to 16th place according to their win–loss records:
# Place in the group.
# Points.
# Points average.
Travis Leslie
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Šiauliai
Šiauliai (; bat-smg, Šiaulē; german: Schaulen, ) is the fourth largest city in Lithuania, with a population of 107,086. From 1994 to 2010 it was the capital of Šiauliai County.
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BBL 2014 Finals MVP
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Travis Leslie
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Šiauliai
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Top scorer
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Jānis Kaufmanis
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Valmiera
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Gintaras Leonavičius
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Jānis Timma
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Ventspils
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Norrköping Dolphins
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Jēkabpils
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Tauras Jogėla
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Nevėžis
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