Runners-up Kinder Bologna Regular Season MVP Mirsad Türkcan Champion Panathinaikos B.C. Third place Pallacanestro Treviso | Fourth place Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv Dates 10 Oct 2001 – 12 May 2002 Location Europe | |
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Champions Panathinaikos (3rd title) Teams 32 (regular season)
41 (total) Duration 10 October 2001 – 12 May 2002 Similar 2002–03 Euroleague, 2003–04 Euroleague, 2006–07 Euroleague, 2009–10 Euroleague | ||
The 2001–02 Euroleague was the second season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 45th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The season started on October 10, 2001, and ended with the championship final game on May 5, 2002, in PalaMalaguti, Bologna, Italy. 32 teams competed for the championship, which was won by Panathinaikos. Mirsad Türkcan was the EuroLeague Regular Season MVP, and Dejan Bodiroga was the Euroleague Top 16 MVP and Euroleague Final Four MVP.
Contents
First qualifying round
*Alvik withdrew.
Second qualifying round
*Lugano Snakes withdrew.
**Le Mans withdrew.
Regular season
The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into four groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 4 teams in each group advanced to the next round, The Top 16. The complete list of tiebreakers is provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.
If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
- 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 were not in the same group)
- Points scored in all group matches
- Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match
Top 16
The remaining 16 teams were placed into four groups of four teams each. Each team played every other team in its group twice, once at home and once away. The top teams of each of the four groups advanced to the Final Four.
Semifinals
May 3, PalaMalaguti, Bologna
Final
May 5, PalaMalaguti, Bologna
Final Four 2002 MVP
Dejan Bodiroga (Panathinaikos)