The 2017–18

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season was the 26th season of the top-tier

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competition in

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was the defending champion, but was eliminated in the semifinals. Levickí Patrioti won their second league.

Competition format

Ten teams joined the regular season, consisted in playing against each other four times home-and-away in double a round-robin format. The eight first qualified teams advance to the playoffs.

Teams

Lučenec Lučenec (; german: Lizenz; hu, Losonc; yi, לאשאנץ; la, Lutetia HungarorumLelkes György (1992), Magyar helységnév-azonosító szótár, Balassi Kiadó, Budapest, 508 p.) is a town in the Banská Bystrica Region of south-central Slovaki ...

and SPU Nitra did not continue in the Extraliga.

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, champion of the 1.Liga, replaced them.

Regular season

Playoffs

Seeded teams played games 1, 3, 5 and 7 at home. Quarterfinals were played in a best-of-five games format while semifinals and final with a best-of-seven one.

Slovak clubs in Regional competitions

References

External links

Slovak Extraliga official website
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Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

Slovak Extraliga (basketball)