Euroleague 2002-03

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The Euroleague is an international basketball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe. The 2002-2003 season featured 24 competing teams from 13 different countries. The final of the competition was held in Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain, with hosts FC Barcelona defeating Benetton Treviso 76-65.

Contents 1 Format 1.1 Regular season 1.2 Top 16 1.3 Final Four 2 Regular Season 2.1 Group A 2.2 Group B 2.3 Group C 3 Top 16 3.1 Group D 3.2 Group E 3.3 Group F 3.4 Group G 4 Final Four 4.1 Semifinals 4.1.1 Semifinal 1 4.1.2 Semifinal 2 4.2 Third Place 4.3 Final 5 Awards 5.1 Regular Season MVP 5.2 Top 16 MVP 5.3 Final Four MVP 5.4 Best Young Player (Under 22) 5.5 All Euroleague First Team 2002-2003 5.6 All Euroleague Second Team 2002-2003 6 External links

[edit] Format

[edit] Regular season

The first phase is a regular season, in which the competing teams are drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team plays 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 advance to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers is provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

[edit] Top 16

The surviving teams are divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system is adopted resulting in 6 games each, with the top team advancing to the Final Four. Tiebreakers are identical to those used in the Regular Season.

[edit] Final Four

The culminating stage of the Euroleague in which the four remaining teams play a semifinal match and the winners of those advance to the final. The losers play in a third-place playoff. The team which is victorious in the Final will be Euroleague champion.

[edit] Regular Season

Key to colors

	Top five places in each group, plus highest-ranked sixth-place team, advance to Top 16
	Eliminated

Tiebreakers:

• 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 are not in the same group)
• Points scored in all group matches
• Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

[edit] Group A

Main article: Euroleague 2002-03 Regular Season Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Benetton Treviso	14	11	3	1253	1108	+147
2.	FC Barcelona	14	11	3	1137	1048	+89
3.	Efes Pilsen	14	8	6	1072	998	+74
4.	Skipper Bologna	14	8	6	1085	1087	-2
5.	Cibona Zagreb	14	7	7	1066	1118	-52
6.	Pau-Orthez	14	6	8	1076	1124	-48
7.	ALBA Berlin	14	4	10	1064	1172	-108
8.	AEK Athens	14	1	13	1000	1098	-98

[edit] Group B

Main article: Euroleague 2002-03 Regular Season Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Panathinaikos	14	11	3	1103	1039	+64
2.	Tau Vitoria	14	9	5	1126	1090	+36
3.	Olimpija Ljubljana	14	9	5	1105	1052	+53
4.	Unicaja Málaga	14	7	7	1060	1058	+2
5.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	14	7	7	1129	1081	+48
6.	Montepaschi Siena	14	6	8	1132	1092	+40
7.	Žalgiris Kaunas	14	5	9	1141	1195	-54
8.	Budućnost Podgorica	14	2	12	1108	1297	-189

[edit] Group C

Main article: Euroleague 2002-03 Regular Season Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	14	12	2	1148	1004	+144
2.	Ülkerspor	14	10	4	1115	1064	+51
3.	Olympiacos	14	7	7	1066	1041	+25
4.	Virtus Bologna	14	6	8	1102	1119	-17
5.	ASVEL Villeurbanne	14	6	8	1114	1138	-24
6.	Real Madrid	14	6	8	1094	1113	-19
7.	Idea Śląsk Wrocław	14	5	9	1039	1125	-86
8.	Partizan Belgrade	14	4	10	1109	1183	-72

[edit] Top 16

Key to colors

	First place in each group advance to the Final Four
	Eliminated from contention

[edit] Group D

Main article: Euroleague 2002-03 Top 16 Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	6	5	1	499	399	+100
2.	Efes Pilsen	6	4	2	425	431	-6
3.	Cibona Zagreb	6	2	4	447	499	-52
4.	CB Málaga	6	1	5	474	516	-42

[edit] Group E

Main article: Euroleague 2002-03 Top 16 Group E

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Montepaschi Siena	6	4	2	510	484	+26
2.	Skipper Bologna	6	3	3	450	448	+2
3.	Panathinaikos	6	3	3	482	506	−24
4.	Ülkerspor	6	2	4	480	484	−4

[edit] Group F

Main article: Euroleague 2002-03 Top 16 Group F

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Benetton Treviso	6	6	0	522	452	+70
2.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	4	2	537	477	+60
3.	Tau Vitoria	6	2	4	502	516	−14
4.	Virtus Bologna	6	0	6	448	564	−116

[edit] Group G

Main article: Euroleague 2002-03 Top 16 Group G

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	FC Barcelona	6	5	1	448	424	+24
2.	Olympiacos	6	3	3	427	419	+8
3.	Olimpija Ljubljana	6	3	3	445	438	+7
4.	ASVEL Villeurbanne	6	1	5	436	475	−39

[edit] Final Four

[edit] Semifinals

[edit] Semifinal 1

	Montepaschi Siena	62 – 65	Benetton Treviso	Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona	May 9, 2003

[edit] Semifinal 2

	FC Barcelona	76 – 71	CSKA Moscow	Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona	May 9, 2003

[edit] Third Place

	CSKA Moscow	79 – 78	Montepaschi Siena	Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona	May 11, 2003

[edit] Final

	FC Barcelona	76 – 65	Benetton Treviso	Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona	May 11, 2003

Euroleague 2003 Champions
FC Barcelona First title

v • d • e FC Barcelona Bàsquet 2002-03 Euroleague Champions 5 Nacho | 6 Alzamora | 7 Fučka | 8 Femerling | 9 Bravo | 10 Bodiroga (Final4 MVP) | 11 Navarro | 12 Dueñas | 13 Jasikevičius | 14 de la Fuente | 16 Varejão | 18 van de Hare | Coach Pešić

[edit] Awards

[edit] Regular Season MVP

• Joseph Blair ( Fenerbahçe Ülker)

[edit] Top 16 MVP

• Mirsad Türkcan ( Montepaschi Siena )

[edit] Final Four MVP

• Dejan Bodiroga ( FC Barcelona )

[edit] Best Young Player (Under 22)

• Antonis Fotsis ( Panathinaikos )

[edit] All Euroleague First Team 2002-2003

• Tyus Edney ( Benetton Treviso )
• Alphonso Ford ( Montepaschi Siena )
• Dejan Bodiroga ( FC Barcelona )
• Jorge Garbajosa ( Benetton Treviso )
• Victor Alexander ( CSKA Moscow )

[edit] All Euroleague Second Team 2002-2003

• Miloš Vujanić ( Partizan Belgrade )
• Marcus Brown ( Efes Pilsen )
• Andres Nocioni ( TAU Vitoria )
• Mirsad Türkcan ( Montepaschi Siena )
• Nikola Vujčić ( Maccabi Tel Aviv )

[edit] External links

• Euroleague.net - Official Euroleague homepage.
• Eurobasket.com - Popular basketball news site.
• TalkBasket.net - Basketball forum.

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