The 2004–05 Euroleague was the fifth season of the professional
basketball
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competition for elite clubs throughout
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...
, organised by
Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 48th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The 2004–05 season featured 24 competing teams, from 13 countries. The
final of the competition was held in
Olimpiisky Arena, Moscow, Russia, with the defending champions,
Maccabi Tel Aviv, defeating
Tau Cerámica by a score of 90-78.
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 two top teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers were identical to those used in the Regular 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,
Climamio Bologna,
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv,
Efes Pilsen
Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams
*
FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...
,
Panathinaikos,
Benetton Treviso,
Cibona
Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams
*
Žalgiris,
Ülker,
Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional Football club (association football), football club based in Madrid. The club competes in La Liga, th ...
,
AEK
Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team
*
Tau Cerámica,
Montepaschi Siena
Mens Sana Basketball Siena, also known as simply Mens Sana, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Siena. It is a section of the sports club Polisportiva Mens Sana, founded in 1871.
Under the name Montepaschi Siena, derived from spon ...
,
Prokom Trefl Sopot,
Scavolini Pesaro
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 was a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) would receive priority.
Quarterfinals
Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three series between a first-place team in the Top 16 and a second-place team from a different group, with the first-place team receiving home advantage.
Final four
Individual statistics
Rating
Points
Rebounds
Assists
Other Stats
Awards
Euroleague MVP
*
Anthony Parker (
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
Final Four MVP
*
Šarūnas Jasikevičius (
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
Finals Top Scorer
*
Šarūnas Jasikevičius (
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
All-Euroleague First Team
*
Šarūnas Jasikevičius (
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
*
Arvydas Macijauskas
Arvydas Macijauskas (born 19 January 1980) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. Standing at tall, he played at the shooting guard position. Widely considered one of the greatest Lithuanian players of the 2000s, he won numerous ...
(
Tau Cerámica)
*
Anthony Parker (
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
*
David Andersen (
CSKA Moscow)
*
Nikola Vujčić (
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
All-Euroleague Second Team
*
Jaka Lakovič (
Panathinaikos)
*
Marcus Brown (
CSKA Moscow)
*
Charles Smith (
Scavolini Pesaro)
*
Luis Scola
Luis Alberto Scola Balvoa (born 30 April 1980) is an Argentine former basketball player and the chief executive officer for the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) team Pallacanestro Varese. A three-time All-EuroLeague Team, All-EuroLeague selecti ...
(
Tau Cerámica)
*
Tanoka Beard (
Žalgiris)
Rising Star
*
Erazem Lorbek (
Climamio Bologna)
Best Defender
*
Dimitris Diamantidis (
Panathinaikos)
Alphonso Ford Top Scorer
*
Charles Smith (
Scavolini Pesaro)
Alexander Gomelsky Coach of the Year
*
Pini Gershon (
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
Club Executive of the Year
*
Jose Antonio Querejeta (
Tau Cerámica)
References and notes
Euroleague Competition Format
External links
Euroleague.net- Official Euroleague homepage.
Eurobasket.com- Popular basketball news site.
TalkBasket.net- Basketball forum.
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