2011–12 Eurocup Basketball


The 2011–12 Eurocup Basketball season was the tenth edition of Europe's second-tier level transnational competition for men's professional basketball clubs, the EuroCup. The EuroCup is the European-wide league level that is one level below the EuroLeague. It ran from September 27, 2011, until April 15, 2012. The winner of this competition earned a place at the group stage of the next season's EuroLeague.

Teams allocation

Distribution

32 teams participated in the Eurocup Regular Season:
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round :
The eight winners of the qualifying round joined the regular season. The eight losers transferred to the EuroChallenge regular season.

Regular season

The Regular Season ran from November 15, 2011, to December 20, 2011.
If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers were 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 two places in each group advance to Last 16

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Last 16

Group I

Group J

Group K

Group L

Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals were two-legged ties determined on aggregate score. The first legs were played on March 20. The return legs were played on March 27. The group winners in each tie, listed as Team 1, hosted the second leg.
Team 1Agg.Team 21st leg2nd leg
Valencia 156–138 Budućnost VOLI71–7585–63
Donetsk 145–154 Lietuvos rytas65–7680–78
Spartak St. Petersburg 154–135 ČEZ Nymburk68–6486–71
Lokomotiv Kuban 153–158 Khimki72–8181–77

Final four

announced that the 2011–12 Eurocup season would culminate with the Eurocup Finals in Khimki, Russia, on April 14 and 15.

Individual statistics

Rating

Points

Rebounds

Assists

Awards

MVP Weekly

Regular season

Top 16

Quarterfinals

Eurocup MVP

PositionAll-Eurocup First TeamClub TeamAll-Eurocup Second TeamClub Team
PG
Patrick Beverley Spartak St. Petersburg Yotam Halperin Spartak St. Petersburg
SG/SF
Zoran Planinić Khimki Ramel Curry Donetsk
SG/SF
Renaldas Seibutis Lietuvos Rytas Pavel Pumprla ČEZ Nymburk
PF/C
Nik Caner-Medley Valencia Jeremiah Massey Lokomotiv Kuban
PF/C
Jonas Valančiūnas Lietuvos Rytas Bojan Dubljević Budućnost

Coach of the Year