Euroleague 2003-04

The Euroleague is an international basketball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe. The 2003-2004 season featured 24 competing teams from 13 different countries. The final of the competition was held in Yad Eliyahu Sports Hall, Tel Aviv, Israel, with hosts Maccabi 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 118-74.

Format

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.

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.

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.

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.

Regular Season

Group C

Group E

Final Four

emifinals

emifinal 1

Final

Awards

Regular Season MVP

*flagicon|LTU Arvydas Sabonis ( flagicon|LTU Žalgiris Kaunas )

Top 16 MVP

*flagicon|LTU Arvydas Sabonis ( flagicon|LTU Žalgiris Kaunas )

Final Four MVP

*flagicon|USA Anthony Parker ( flagicon|ISR Maccabi Tel Aviv )

All Euroleague First Team 2003-2004

*flagicon|LTU Šarūnas Jasikevičius ( flagicon|ISR Maccabi Tel Aviv )
*flagicon|USA Marcus Brown ( flagicon|RUS CSKA Moscow )
*flagicon|SCG Dejan Bodiroga ( flagicon|ESP FC Barcelona )
*flagicon|TUR Mirsad Türkcan ( flagicon|RUS CSKA Moscow )
*flagicon|LTU Arvydas Sabonis ( flagicon|LTU Žalgiris Kaunas )

All Euroleague Second Team 2003-2004

*flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro Miloš Vujanić ( flagicon|Italy Skipper Bologna )
*flagicon|USA Lynn Greer ( flagicon|Poland Idea Slask )
*flagicon|Belgium David Vanterpool ( flagicon|Italy Montepaschi Siena )
*flagicon|Argentina Andres Nocioni ( flagicon|Spain TAU Ceramica )
*flagicon|Croatia Nikola Vujčić ( flagicon|Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv )

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.euroleague.net/ Euroleague.net] - Official Euroleague homepage.
* [http://www.eurobasket.com/ Eurobasket.com] - Popular basketball news site.
* [http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/ TalkBasket.net] - Basketball forum.