The 2013–14 Baltic Basketball League was the 10th anniversary season of the
Baltic Basketball League
Baltic Basketball League (BBL) was the Baltic states basketball league founded in 2004. The league mainly focused on teams from the Baltic states, but teams from Sweden, Russia, Kazakhstan, Finland, and Belarus
Belarus, officially the Rep ...
.
This time the format featured 21 teams – 6 from
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...
, 6 from
Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...
, 5 from
Latvia
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to t ...
, 2 from
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
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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 ( ; ) is a city in northern Lithuania, the List of cities in Lithuania, country's fourth largest city and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, sixth largest city in the Baltic States, with a population of 112 581 in 202 ...
took the 2014 title by beating TonyBet 140–123 on aggregate score. Estonian team
Tartu Ülikool/Rock
Tartu Ülikooli korvpallimeeskond ( English: University of Tartu men's basketball team), also known as Tartu Ülikool Maks & Moorits for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Tartu, Estonia. They are a part of the Univer ...
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.
Šiauliai
Šiauliai ( ; ) is a city in northern Lithuania, the List of cities in Lithuania, country's fourth largest city and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, sixth largest city in the Baltic States, with a population of 112 581 in 202 ...
Šiauliai
Šiauliai ( ; ) is a city in northern Lithuania, the List of cities in Lithuania, country's fourth largest city and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, sixth largest city in the Baltic States, with a population of 112 581 in 202 ...
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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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Joakim Kjellbom
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Norrköping Dolphins
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Jēkabpils
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