2002–03 Euroleague

Main article: Euroleague Basketball

Euroleague 2002-03
League	Euroleague
Sport	Basketball
Season
Season MVP	Joseph Blair (Fenerbahce) (Regular Season) Mirsad Türkcan (Montepaschi) (Top 16)
Top scorer	Miloš Vujanić (Partizan)
Final Four
Final Four champions	Barcelona
Runners-up	Treviso
Final Four Finals MVP	Dejan Bodiroga (Barcelona)
Euroleague seasons
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The Euroleague is an international professional 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.

Euroleague Cup 2003, currently at the FC Barcelona museum

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 format

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

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

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

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

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

Top 16

Key to colors

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

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

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

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

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

Final Four

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

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

Semifinal 2

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

Third Place

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

Final

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

Euroleague 2003 Champions
FC Barcelona First title

Awards

Regular Season MVP

• Joseph Blair ( Ülkerspor)

Top 16 MVP

• Mirsad Türkcan ( Montepaschi Siena )

Final Four MVP

• Dejan Bodiroga ( FC Barcelona )

Best Young Player (22 and under)

• Antonis Fotsis ( Panathinaikos )

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 )

All-Euroleague Second Team 2002–2003

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

External links

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