2001–02 North European Basketball League

2000–01 NEBL was the third complete season of the North European Basketball League. There were 31 teams, from 19 countries participating in the 2001–02 season's tournament. Apart from clubs from Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, clubs from Southern Europe (Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia), Israel and Turkey participated for the first time in this competition.

North European Basketball League
Season2001-2002
Number of teams31

Lietuvos rytas won the tournament by defeating Ural Great in the final.

Regular season edit

Group A edit

Team Pld W L PF PA Pts
1.   Ventspils 8 7 1 717 631 15
2.   Go Pass Pepinster 8 5 3 563 527 13
3.   Pertemps Bullets 8 5 3 693 678 13
4.   Kyiv 8 5 3 685 664 13
5.   Magic Great Danes 8 4 4 595 589 12
6.   Samara 8 4 4 611 586 12
7.   Šiauliai 8 3 5 447 480 11
8.   Mitteldeutscher 8 2 6 568 649 10
9.   08 Stockholm Human Rights 8 1 7 664 757 9

Source: ural-great.ru [1]

Results[2]
  SHR   MIT   ŠIA   SAM   MGD   KYI   BUL   PEP
  Ventspils 102-84 80-73 92-77 79-83 76-61 104-89 91-86 93-78
  Go Pass Pepinster 79-80 68-57 75-81 20-0 74-63 89-83 80-70
  Pertemps Bullets 99-96 80-64 88-80 94-87 88-97 88-83
  Kyiv 104-101 74-65 81-71 91-79 80-67
  Magic Great Danes 88-74 82-62 59-65 78-70
  Samara 92-79 116-75 84-70
  Šiauliai 103-75 74-82
  Mitteldeutscher 90-75

Group B edit

Team Pld W L PF PA Pts
1.   Polonia Warbud 8 7 1 645 587 15
2.   RheinEnergy Köln 8 6 2 646 590 14
3.   Odesa 8 5 3 668 621 13
4.   Skonto 8 5 3 704 693 13
5.   Kalev 8 4 4 660 671 12
6.   Honka Playboys 8 3 5 630 624 11
7.   XRAYS S.Oliver 8 3 5 663 663 11
8.   Alita 8 2 6 602 640 10
9.   Grodno-93 8 1 7 539 670 9

Source: ural-great.ru [1]

Results[2]
  GRO   ALI   OLI   HON   KAL   SKO   ODE   KÖL
  Polonia Warbud 77-70 82-67 80-77 84-78 89-66 73-85 83-70 77-74
  RheinEnergy Köln 88-70 87-84 86-75 72-69 79-80 90-85 70-50
  Odesa 106-70 101-73 77-79 79-70 85-83 100-93
  Skonto 81-67 70-93 109-100 86-82 95-88
  Kalev 85-71 75-72 100-87 83-93
  Honka Playboys 78-73 70-73 90-74
  XRAYS S.Oliver 88-46 83-73
  Alita 67-72

Group S edit

Team Pld W L PF PA Pts
1.   Rabotnički 8 6 2 622 604 14
2.   NIS Vojvodina 8 6 2 658 600 14
3.   Yambolgaz 8 5 3 698 663 13
4.   Fenerbahçe 8 5 3 616 587 13
5.   Hapoel Tel Aviv 8 5 3 646 568 13
6.   Levski 8 4 4 677 710 12
7.   Kumanovo 8 2 6 525 528 10
8.   Lukoil Academic 8 2 6 524 567 10
9.   West Petrom Arad 8 0 8 595 734 8

Source: ural-great.ru [1]

Results[2]
  WPA   LUK   KUM   LEV   HTA   FEN   YAM   VOJ
  Rabotnički 82-73 80-72 82-72 82-71 58-78 85-80 73-82 80-76
  NIS Vojvodina 110-80 69-64 69-65 70-73 80-72 90-86 94-80
  Yambolgaz 82-78 82-89 84-67 105-111 92-80 91-71
  Fenerbahçe 85-60 73-66 77-71 78-59 66-65
  Hapoel Tel Aviv 82-56 87-73 81-60 101-83
  Levski 112-105 93-76 75-93
  Kumanovo 97-60 87-74
  Lukoil Academic 84-83

Second round edit

Key to colors
     Top team in each group advance to Final Four.

Group C

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Qualification   URA   KYI   VOJ   KÖL
1   Ural Great 6 4 2 477 446 +31 Advance to Final Four 108–100 111–83 20–0
2   Kyiv 6 3 3 542 510 +32 81–95 110–77 73–74
3   NIS Vojvodina 6 3 3 496 542 −46 88–78 81–95 87–81
4   RheinEnergy Köln 6 2 4 401 418 −17 94–75 75–83 77–80
Source: sport.niv.ru

Group D

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff Pts
1.   Lietuvos rytas 6 5 1 571 496 +75 11
2.   Skonto 6 4 2 524 510 +14 10
3.   Go Pass Pepinster 6 2 4 506 511 –5 8
4.   Rabotnički 6 1 5 448 532 –84 7

Group E

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff Pts
1.   Ventspils 6 5 1 566 511 +55 11
2.   CSKA Moscow 6 3 3 562 531 +31 9
3.   Odesa 6 2 4 479 525 –46 8
4.   Fenerbahçe 6 2 4 526 566 –40 8

Group F

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff Pts
1.   Polonia Warbud 6 4 2 512 480 +32 10
2.   Yambolgaz 6 3 3 521 499 +22 9
3.   Kinder London Towers 6 3 3 551 558 –7 9
4.   Pertemps Bullets 6 2 4 525 572 –47 8

Source: ural-great.ru [3]

Final Four edit

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
 
 
 
  Ural Great107
 
 
 
  Polonia Warbud82
 
  Ural Great74
 
 
 
  Lietuvos rytas79
 
  Lietuvos rytas87
 
 
  Ventspils75
 
Third place
 
 
 
 
 
  Polonia Warbud63
 
 
  Ventspils81

Source: ural-great.ru [4]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "NEBL 2001/2002 Standing". Archived from the original on 2016-09-20.
  2. ^ a b c "Баскетбол. Северная лига (NEBL)". Archived from the original on 2006-10-22.
  3. ^ "NEBL 2001/2002 Standings". Archived from the original on 2021-05-02.
  4. ^ "NEBL Open 2001/2002 Final Four". Archived from the original on 2011-04-26.