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1992–93 FIBA European League

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Sport
  
Basketball

Runners-up
  
Benetton Treviso

Finals champion
  
Limoges CSP

Champions
  
Limoges

Champion
  
Limoges CSP

Final Four MVP
  
Toni Kukoč (Benetton Treviso)

Top scorer
  
Zdravko Radulović (KK Cibona)

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The 1992–93 FIBA European League was the 36th season of the top club competition for European basketball clubs (now called EuroLeague). It featured 42 competing teams from 33 different countries. The final of the competition was held on April 15, 1993, at the Peace and Friendship Stadium in Piraeus, Greece, with Limoges defeating Benetton Treviso 59–55. Title holder Partizan was not allowed in the competition because of United Nations Security Council Resolution 757, imposing sanctions against Yugoslavia.

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Competition system

  • 42 teams (the cup title holder, national domestic league champions, and a variable number of other clubs from the most important national domestic leagues) played knock-out rounds on a home and away basis. The aggregate score of both games decided the winner.
  • The sixteen remaining teams after the knock-out rounds entered the Regular Season Group Stage, divided into two groups of eight teams, playing a round-robin. The final standing was based on individual wins and defeats. In the case of a tie between two or more teams after the group stage, the following criteria was used to decide the final classification: 1) number of wins in one-to-one games between the teams; 2) basket average between the teams; 3) general basket average within the group.
  • The top four teams from each group after the Regular Season Group Stage qualified for a Quarterfinal Playoff (X-pairings, best of 3 games).
  • The four winners of the Quarterfinal Playoff qualified for the Final Stage (Final Four), which was played at a predetermined venue.

    • Second round

    Automatically qualified to the group stage
  • Partizan (title holder)**
  • Joventut Marbella
  • Benetton Treviso

    • *Crvena zvezda was drawn for the competition but was not allowed to compete due to UN embargo on FR Yugoslavia. PAOK went through with a walkover.

    **Partizan was drawn for the competition but was not allowed to compete due to UN embargo on FR Yugoslavia. FIBA decided not to replace Partizan with another team for the Regular Season Group Stage, so the 15 qualified clubs had to be unevenly distributed in this round (a group of 8 teams and another of only 7).

    Regular season

    If one or more clubs are level on won-lost record, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

    1. Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
    2. Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
    3. Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs are not in the same group)
    4. Points scored in all group matches
    5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

    Quarterfinals

    Seeded teams played games 2 and 3 at home.

    Semifinals

    April 13, Peace and Friendship Stadium, Piraeus

    3rd place game

    April 15, Peace and Friendship Stadium, Piraeus

    Final

    April 15, Peace and Friendship Stadium, Piraeus

    Final Four 1993 MVP

    Toni Kukoč (Benetton Treviso)

    References

    1992–93 FIBA European League Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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