The 2003–04 Euroleague was the fourth season of the professional
basketball
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competition for elite clubs throughout
Europe
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, organised by
Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 47th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The 2003–04 season featured 24 competing teams from 13 countries. The
final of the competition was held in
Nokia Arena,
Tel Aviv
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,
Israel
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, with hosts
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv,
[The venue for each year's Final Four is determined before the previous year's Final Four, before it can possibly be known who will advance.] defeating
Skipper Bologna, by a score of 118-74.
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
Regular season
The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into three 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 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advanced to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers was 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 C
Top 16
The surviving teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a
round robin system was adopted resulting in 6 games each, with the top team advancing to the Final Four. Tiebreakers were identical to those used in the Regular Season.
This was the last season in which teams advanced directly from the Top 16 to the Final Four. A quarterfinal round was introduced in the
2004–05 season.
The draw was held in accordance with Euroleague rules.
The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:
Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team
*
CSKA Moscow
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,
FC Barcelona
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,
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv,
Efes Pilsen
Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams
*
Skipper Bologna,
Pamesa Valencia,
Benetton Treviso,
Cibona
Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams
*
Union Olimpija,
Ülker,
Montepaschi Siena
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Under the name Montepaschi Siena, derived from spon ...
,
Tau Cerámica
Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team
*
Pau-Orthez,
Panathinaikos,
Olympiacos
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,
Žalgiris
Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions:
#No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
#No more than two teams from the same country could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
#If there is a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) would receive priority.
Another draw was held to determine the order of fixtures. In the case of two teams from the same city in the Top 16 (Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, Efes Pilsen and Ülker) they were scheduled so that every week only one team would be at home.
Final four
Semifinals
April 29,
Nokia Arena,
Tel Aviv
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3rd place game
May 1,
Nokia Arena,
Tel Aviv
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Final
May 1,
Nokia Arena,
Tel Aviv
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Final standings
Awards
Top Scorer
*
Lynn Greer
Lynn Terence Greer Jr. (born October 23, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player. He played at the point guard and shooting guard positions. He was an All-EuroLeague Team, All-EuroLeague Second Team selection in 2003–04 Eur ...
(
Śląsk Wrocław
Wrocławski Klub Sportowy Śląsk Wrocław Spółka Akcyjna, commonly known as WKS Śląsk Wrocław (), is a Polish professional Association football, football club based in Wrocław that plays in , the second level of the Polish football leagu ...
)
Regular Season MVP
*
Arvydas Sabonis (
Žalgiris)
Top 16 MVP
*
Arvydas Sabonis (
Žalgiris)
Final Four MVP
*
Anthony Parker (
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
Finals Top Scorer
*
Anthony Parker (
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv) &
Miloš Vujanić (
Skipper Bologna)
All-Euroleague First Team
*
Šarūnas Jasikevičius (
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
*
Marcus Brown (
CSKA Moscow
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)
*
Dejan Bodiroga (
FC Barcelona
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)
*
Mirsad Türkcan (
CSKA Moscow
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)
*
Arvydas Sabonis (
Žalgiris)
All-Euroleague Second Team
*
Miloš Vujanić (
Skipper Bologna)
*
Lynn Greer
Lynn Terence Greer Jr. (born October 23, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player. He played at the point guard and shooting guard positions. He was an All-EuroLeague Team, All-EuroLeague Second Team selection in 2003–04 Eur ...
(
Śląsk Wrocław
Wrocławski Klub Sportowy Śląsk Wrocław Spółka Akcyjna, commonly known as WKS Śląsk Wrocław (), is a Polish professional Association football, football club based in Wrocław that plays in , the second level of the Polish football leagu ...
)
*
David Vanterpool (
Montepaschi Siena
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Under the name Montepaschi Siena, derived from spon ...
)
*
Andrés Nocioni (
Tau Cerámica)
*
Nikola Vujčić (
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
References and notes
External links
Euroleague.net- Official Euroleague homepage.
Eurobasket.com- Popular basketball news site.
TalkBasket.net- Basketball forum.
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