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The 2001–02
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was the second season of the professional
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competition for elite clubs throughout
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, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 45th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The season started on October 10, 2001, and ended on May 5, 2002. The
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was hosted in the PalaMalaguti in
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,
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. A number of 32 teams competed for the championship, which was won by Panathinaikos. Mirsad Türkcan was named Regular season MVP, while Dejan Bodiroga was awarded EuroLeague Top 16 MVP and EuroLeague Final Four MVP.


Euroleague opening tournament

The 2001–02 season was the first run by
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, after
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agreed that it would no longer organise Europe's top competition. Given that the previous season there were two main competitions, the
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and the
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, thus two European champions ( Maccabi Tel Aviv and Kinder Bologna), it was decided that an opening tournament would be played to determine the unofficial champion. The Euroleague opening tournament was hosted in
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by Union Olimpija and was won by Cibona VIP, the only guest of the tournament, beating Maccabi Tel Aviv 78–67 in the final.


Competition system

* 41 teams in total with the qualification rounds, and 32 teams at the first group stage (the national domestic league champions from the best leagues, and a variable number of other clubs from the most important national domestic leagues), playing in a tournament system. The competition culminated in a Final Four.


Team allocation


Distribution

The table below shows the default access list.


Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: EuroLeague title holders) * 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs * WC: Wild card


Qualifying rounds


First qualifying round


Second qualifying round


Third qualifying round


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 were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order: # Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs # Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs # Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs were not in the same group) # Points scored in all group matches # Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match


Group A


Group B


Group C


Group D


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.


Group E


Group F


Group G


Group H


Final Four


Awards


Top Scorer


Regular Season MVP


Top 16 MVP


Final Four MVP


Finals Top Scorer


All-Euroleague First Team


All-Euroleague Second Team


Round MVP


Regular season


Top 16


Individual statistics


Rating


Points


Rebounds


Assists


Other statistics


Individual game highs


See also

* 2001–02 FIBA Saporta Cup *
2001–02 FIBA Korać Cup The last, 31st edition of the Korać Cup, FIBA Korać Cup occurred between 25 September 2001 and 17 April 2002. The tournament was won by SLUC Nancy Basket, Nancy, who beat PBC Lokomotiv-Kuban, Lokomotiv Rostov in the final. The competition was re ...


References


Sources


2001-02 at Eurobasket.com

Awards


External links




Euroleague.net
– official Euroleague homepage {{DEFAULTSORT:2001-02 Euroleague EuroLeague seasons