Euroleague 2002-03

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.

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.

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|USA Joseph Blair (flagicon|TUR Fenerbahçe Ülker)

Top 16 MVP

*flagicon|TUR Mirsad Türkcan ( flagicon|ITA Montepaschi Siena )

Final Four MVP

*flagicon|SCG Dejan Bodiroga ( flagicon|ESP FC Barcelona )

Best Young Player (Under 22)

*flagicon|Greece Antonis Fotsis ( flagicon|Greece Panathinaikos )

All Euroleague First Team 2002-2003

*flagicon|USA Tyus Edney ( flagicon|ITA Benetton Treviso )
*flagicon|USA Alphonso Ford ( flagicon|ITA Montepaschi Siena )
*flagicon|SCG Dejan Bodiroga ( flagicon|ESP FC Barcelona )
*flagicon|ESP Jorge Garbajosa ( flagicon|ITA Benetton Treviso )
*flagicon|USA Victor Alexander ( flagicon|RUS CSKA Moscow )

All Euroleague Second Team 2002-2003

*flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro Miloš Vujanić ( flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro Partizan Belgrade )
*flagicon|USA Marcus Brown ( flagicon|Turkey Efes Pilsen )
*flagicon|Argentina Andres Nocioni ( flagicon|Spain TAU Vitoria )
*flagicon|Turkey Mirsad Türkcan ( flagicon|Italy Montepaschi Siena )
*flagicon|Croatia Nikola Vujčić ( flagicon|Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv )

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.