2003–04 Euroleague

Main article: Euroleague Basketball

Euroleague 2003-04
League	Euroleague
Sport	Basketball
Season
Season MVP	Arvydas Sabonis (Zalgiris) (Regular Season) Arvydas Sabonis (Zalgiris) (Top 16)
Top scorer	Lynn Greer (Slask)
Final Four
Final Four champions	Maccabi
Runners-up	Bologna
Final Four Finals MVP	Anthony Parker (Maccabi)
Euroleague seasons
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The Euroleague is an international professional 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^[1] 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 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.

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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.	FC Barcelona	14	12	2	1086	937	149
2.	Cibona Zagreb	14	8	6	1122	1101	21
3.	Ülkerspor	14	8	6	1023	1050	-27
4.	Olimpija Ljubljana	14	6	8	1093	1123	-30
5.	Pau-Orthez	14	6	8	1141	1130	11
6.	AEK Athens	14	6	8	1066	1099	-33
7.	Partizan Belgrade	14	6	8	1081	1078	3
8.	Lottomatica Roma	14	4	10	997	1091	-94

Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	14	11	3	1118	984	134
2.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	14	11	3	1261	1169	92
3.	Skipper Bologna	14	8	6	1206	1173	33
4.	Montepaschi Siena	14	7	7	1083	1068	15
5.	Panathinaikos	14	7	7	1141	1113	28
6.	Žalgiris Kaunas	14	6	8	1142	1142	0
7.	Unicaja Málaga	14	4	10	1051	1111	-60
8.	Krka Novo mesto	14	2	12	947	1189	-242

Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Efes Pilsen	14	10	4	1066	1002	64
2.	Benetton Treviso	14	10	4	1185	1067	118
3.	Pamesa Valencia	14	9	5	1149	1089	60
4.	TAU Cerámica	14	9	5	1183	1127	56
5.	Olympiacos	14	7	7	1109	1108	1
6.	Idea Śląsk Wrocław	14	6	8	1110	1163	-53
7.	ALBA Berlin	14	3	11	1075	1170	-95
8.	ASVEL Villeurbanne	14	2	12	982	1133	-151

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Top 16

The draw was held in accordance with Euroleague rules.

The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:

Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team
- CSKA, Barcelona, Maccabi, Efes Pilsen
Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams
- Skipper, Valencia,Benetton, Cibona
Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams
- Olimpija, Ülker, Montepaschi Siena,TAU Cerámica
Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team
- Pau Orthez, Panathinaikos, Olimpiacos, Zalgiris

Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions:

No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group can be placed in the same Top 16 group.
No more than two teams from the same country can be placed in the same Top 16 group.
If there is a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) will receive priority.

Another draw was held to determine the order of fixtures. In cases of two teams from the same city in the Top 16 (Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, Efes Pilsen and Ülker) they were scheduled so that every week only one team would be at home.

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	477	436	+41
2.	TAU Cerámica	6	4	2	505	477	+28
3.	Cibona Zagreb	6	2	4	422	449	-27
4.	Olympiacos	6	1	5	436	477	-41

Group E

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Skipper Bologna	6	5	1	484	457	+27
2.	Efes Pilsen	6	4	2	427	390	+37
3.	Pau-Orthez	6	2	4	452	486	−34
4.	Olimpija Ljubljana	6	1	5	438	468	−30

Group F

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Montepaschi Siena	6	4	2	498	461	+37
2.	Benetton Treviso	6	4	2	510	494	+16
3.	FC Barcelona	6	2	4	445	452	−7
4.	Panathinaikos	6	2	4	460	506	−46

Group G

Main article: Euroleague 2003-04 Top 16 Group G

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	4	2	452	406	+46
2.	Pamesa Valencia	6	4	2	418	421	-3
3.	Žalgiris Kaunas	6	3	3	520	507	+13
4.	Ülkerspor	6	1	5	449	505	−56

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Final Four

Semifinals

Semifinal 1


	Skipper Bologna	103 – 102 (OT)	Montepaschi Siena	Yad Eliyahu Arena, Tel Aviv	April 29, 2004

Semifinal 2


	Maccabi Tel Aviv	93 – 85	CSKA Moscow	Yad Eliyahu Arena, Tel Aviv	April 29, 2004

Third Place


	CSKA Moscow	97 – 94	Montepaschi Siena	Yad Eliyahu Arena, Tel Aviv	May 1, 2004

Final


	Maccabi Tel Aviv	118 – 74	Skipper Bologna	Yad Eliyahu Arena, Tel Aviv	May 1, 2004

Euroleague 2004 Champions
Maccabi Tel Aviv Fourth title

v t e Maccabi Tel Aviv BC 2003–04 Euroleague Champions

4 Ben-Chimol 5 Baston 6 Sharp 7 Vujčić 8 Parker (Final4 MVP) 9 Shelef 10 Burstein 11 Halperin 13 Jasikevičius 14 Šundov 15 Thomas 33 Bluthenthal Saffar Coach Gershon

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Awards

References and notes

^ 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.

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External links

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

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2003–04 Euroleague

Format

Regular Season

Top 16

Final Four format

Regular Season

Group A

Group B

Group C

Top 16

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Final Four

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Third Place

Final

Awards

Regular Season MVP

Top 16 MVP

Final Four MVP

All-Euroleague First Team 2003–2004

All-Euroleague Second Team 2003–2004

References and notes

External links

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