EuroBasket 2001

Infobox FIBA tourney
continent = Europe
year = 2001

size =
caption =
host = Turkey
dates = August 31 – September 9
teams = 16
federations = ?
venues = 3
cities = 3
champions = FR Yugoslavia
title_number = 8
mvp = flagicon|FR Yugoslavia Predrag Stojaković
ppg_p = flagicon|Germany Nowitzki (28.7)
ppg_t = bk|FR Yugoslavia (91.5)
rpg_p = flagicon|Spain Gasol (9.7)
rpg_t = bk|Croatia (36.3)
apg_p = flagicon|Latvia Miglinieks (7.3)
apg_t = bk|FR Yugoslavia (17.2)
website = [http://www.eurobasket2001.org.tr/ EuroBasket 2001]

The EuroBasket 2001 (common short name for the 32nd edition of FIBA's European Basketball Championship) was held in Turkey between August 31 and September 9, 2001. Yugoslavia won the gold medal, hosts Turkey won the silver while Spain won the bronze. Yugoslavia's Predrag Stojaković was named the tournament MVP.The all-tournament team included Yugoslavia's Marko Jaric and Predrag Stojaković, Russia's Andrei Kirilenko, Germany's Dirk Nowitzki and Spain's Pau Gasol.

In the final game of the tournament, Yugoslavia defeated Turkey 78-69. Vlado Scepanovic scored 19, Dejan Bodiroga had 18 and Stojaković had 15 points while Ibrahim Kutluay scored 19 for Turkey.

Final Round

Preliminaries

Group A – ASKI Sport Hall, Ankara

Group D – Anfas Expo Center, Antalya

Knockout stage - Abdi İpekçi Arena, Istanbul

Round8-with third

September 5, 2001 - 19:00|bk|TUR|87|bk|CRO|85
September 5, 2001 - 21:15|bk|FRA|77|bk|GER|81
September 6, 2001 - 19:00|bk|FR Yugoslavia|114|bk|LAT|78
September 6, 2001 - 21:15|bk|RUS|55|bk|ESP|62
September 8, 2001 - 19:00|bk|GER|78|bk|TUR|79
September 8, 2001 - 21:15|bk|ESP|65|bk|FR Yugoslavia|78
September 9, 2001 - 21:15|bk|TUR|69|bk|FR Yugoslavia|78
September 9, 2001 - 19:00|bk|GER|90|bk|ESP|99

5th to 8th place

Round4-with third|RD1=Classification round|RD2=Fifth place|Consol=Seventh place
September 7, 2001 - 19:00|bk|FRA|90|bk|CRO|79
September 7, 2001 - 21:15|bk|LAT|81|bk|RUS|99
September 9, 2001 - 16:45|bk|FRA|73|bk|RUS|78
September 9, 2001 - 14:30|bk|CRO|93|bk|LAT|91

Awards

All-Tournament Team

* Dirk Nowitzki (Germany)
* Pau Gasol (Spain)
* Predrag Stojakovic (Yugoslavia)
* Ibrahim Kutluay (Turkey)
* Marko Jaric (Yugoslavia)

Top scorers (ppg)

# Dirk Nowitzki (Germany) 28.7
# Predrag Stojaković (Yugoslavia) 23
# Ibrahim Kutluay (Turkey) 21.6
# Andrei Kirilenko (Russia) 19.1
# Kaspars Kambala (Latvia) 19
# Pau Gasol (Spain) 17.2
# Ainars Bagatskis (Latvia) 17.1
# Sergei Chikalkin (Russia) 17
# Damir Mulaomerovic (Croatia) 16.7
# Fragiskos Alvertis (Greece) 16
# Gordan Giricek (Croatia) 15.8
# Hidayet Türkoğlu (Turkey) 15.5

Conclusion

Final standings

Team Rosters

1.Yugoslavia: Predrag Stojaković, Dejan Bodiroga, Marko Jarić, Dejan Tomašević, Dragan Tarlać, Milan Gurović, Predrag Drobnjak, Igor Rakočević, Saša Obradović, Vlado Šćepanović, Dejan Milojević, Veselin Petrović (Coach: Svetislav Pešić)

2.Turkey: Hidayet Türkoğlu, Mehmet Okur, İbrahim Kutluay, Mirsad Türkcan, Hüseyin Beşok, Harun Erdenay, Orhun Ene, Haluk Yildirim, Kaya Peker, Kerem Tunçeri, Ömer Onan, Asim Pars (Coach: Aydin Ors)

3.Spain: Pau Gasol, Jorge Garbajosa, Carlos Jiménez, Juan Carlos Navarro, Charles Kornegay, Ignacio Rodríguez, Raül López, José Antonio Paraíso, Felipe Reyes, Alfonso Reyes, Francisco Vázquez, Lucio Angulo (Coach: Javier Imbroda)

4.Germany: Dirk Nowitzki, Shawn Bradley, Patrick Femerling, Ademola Okulaja, Drazan Tomic, Robert Garrett, Marko Pesic, Stipo Papic, Mithat Demirel, Stefano Garris, Marvin Willoughby, Stephen Arigbabu (Coach: Henrik Dettmann)

External links

* [http://www.eurobasket2001.org.tr/eurobasket2001/eurobasket2001web.nsf?open Official Site]