2010–11 Euroleague


The Turkish Airlines Euroleague 2010–11 was the 11th season of the modern era of professional Euroleague Basketball, and the first under the title sponsorship of Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 54th season of the premier first-tier competition for European men's clubs.
The format featured 24 teams, beginning with Game 1 of the first qualifying round on September 21, 2010, and culminating at the Final Four in the Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona. It was won by the Athenian club Panathinaikos, who defeated C.|Maccabi Electra] in the championship game of May 8, 2011. Montepaschi Siena, finished 3rd by holding off Real Madrid in the third-place game.
At the individual level, the season was marked by Dimitris Diamantidis of Panathinaikos. Not only did the Greek point guard lift the trophy for the third time in five years and receive the Euroleague Final Four MVP award, but he also became the first player ever to win three end-of-season awards: Euroleague MVP, Euroleague Best Defender, and All-Euroleague First Team.

Teams

Champion
Runner-up
Third place
Fourth place
Eliminated in Quarterfinals
Eliminated in Last 16
Eliminated in the regular season

†As winner of the ULEB Eurocup 2009–10

Draw

The draws for the 2010–11 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was held on Thursday, July 8 at Barcelona, Spain. The draws began at 11:15 local time and determined the qualifying-round matchups and regular-season groups for the Euroleague, as well as the qualifying rounds for the Eurocup and the regular-season for the EuroChallenge.
Teams were organised into six pots of four teams.
Two teams from the same country cannot coincide in the same Regular Season group, except for Spain that has five teams participating in the competition.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4Pot 5Pot 6

CSKA Moscow

FC Barcelona

Olympiacos

Caja Laboral
Montepaschi Siena

Panathinaikos

Maccabi Electra

Real Madrid
Partizan

Power Electronics Valencia

Unicaja Málaga

Lietuvos Rytas
Fenerbahçe Ülker

Asseco Prokom

Efes Pilsen

Lottomatica Roma
Žalgiris

Cibona

Armani Jeans Milano

Brose Bamberg
Union Olimpija

Cholet

Spirou Charleroi

Khimki

Qualifying rounds

The Qualifying Rounds consisted of three rounds, QR1, QR2 and QR3. The rounds were played in home and away series.

Regular season

The Regular Season began on 18 October 2010 with Olympiacos hosting Real Madrid and ended on 23 December 2010.
If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
  1. Head-to-head record.
  2. Head-to-head point differential.
  3. Point differential during the Regular Season.
  4. Points scored during the regular season.
  5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season match.
Top four places in each group advanced to Top 16

Group A

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Maccabi Electra1091799700+99
2. Caja Laboral1055809784+25
3. Žalgiris1055762765−3
4. Partizan1055658717−59
5. Khimki1046764753+11
6. Asseco Prokom1028689762−73

Group B

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Olympiacos1073805730+75
2. Real Madrid1064734662+72
3. Unicaja Málaga1055749759−10
4. Lottomatica Roma1055733770−37
5. Brose Bamberg1046714739−25
6. Spirou Charleroi1037691766−75

Group C

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Montepaschi Siena1082787661+126
2. Fenerbahçe Ülker1073795723+72
3. Regal FC Barcelona1073766709+57
4. Lietuvos Rytas1046779784−5
5. Cholet1046705774−69
6. Cibona10010677858−181

Group D

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Panathinaikos1073802703+99
2. Union Olimpija1064789783+6
3. Efes Pilsen1055756768−12
4. Power Electronics Valencia1055689695−6
5. Armani Jeans Milano1046737766−29
6. CSKA Moscow1037683741−58

Top 16

The 16 qualified teams were drawn into four groups with four teams. The matches were played between January 19 and March 3, the top two teams of every group advanced to the playoffs. The draw took place on 4 January 2011 at Barcelona at 13:00 CET, and was streamed live on the Euroleague's official website.
Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals

Group E

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Caja Laboral642468437+31
2. Panathinaikos642452395+57
3. Lietuvos Rytas633445473−28
4. Unicaja Málaga615414474−60

Group F

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Regal FC Barcelona660471402+69
2. Maccabi Electra633511442+69
3. Lottomatica Roma624411462−51
4. Union Olimpija615394481−87

Group G

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Real Madrid651460423+37
2. Montepaschi Siena642452423+29
3. Efes Pilsen624426455−29
4. Partizan615389426−37

Group H

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Olympiacos651461418+43
2. Power Electronics Valencia633449438+11
3. Fenerbahçe Ülker633456462−6
4. Žalgiris615418466−48

Quarterfinals

Team 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary.
Team 1Agg.Team 21st leg2nd leg3rd leg4th leg5th leg
Caja Laboral 1–3 Maccabi Electra76–7081–8360–8177–99-
Regal FC Barcelona 1–3 Panathinaikos83–8271–7574–7667–78-
Real Madrid 3–2 Power Electronics Valencia71–6575–8175–6672–8166–58
Olympiacos 1–3 Montepaschi Siena89–4165–8272–8176–88-

Final four

Individual statistics

Rating

Points

Rebounds

Assists

Other Stats

Game highs

Awards

Euroleague 2010–11 MVP

PositionAll-Euroleague First TeamClub TeamAll-Euroleague Second TeamClub Team
PG
 Dimitris Diamantidis Panathinaikos Jeremy Pargo Maccabi Electra
SG/SF
 Juan Carlos Navarro FC Barcelona Vassilis Spanoulis Olympiacos
SG/SF
 Fernando San Emeterio Caja Laboral Sergio Llull Real Madrid
PF/C
 Mike Batiste Panathinaikos Duško Savanović Power Electronics Valencia
PF/C
 Sofoklis Schortsanitis Maccabi Electra Kšyštof Lavrinovič Montepaschi Siena

Top Scorer ([Alphonso Ford Trophy])

Regular season

Top 16

Quarterfinals

MVP of Month

MonthPlayerTeam
October 2010 Goran Jagodnik Union Olimpija
November 2010 Chuck Eidson Maccabi Electra
December 2010 Dimitris Diamantidis Panathinaikos
January 2011 Juan Carlos Navarro FC Barcelona
February 2011 Radoslav Nesterović Olympiacos
March 2011 Jeremy Pargo Maccabi Electra