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2010–11 Baltic Basketball League

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Sport
  
Basketball

TV partner(s)
  
Viasat Sport Baltic

League
  
Baltic Basketball League

Number of teams
  
14 (Elite Division) 10 (Challenge Cup)

Season champions
  
Elite Division: BK VEF Rīga Challenge Cup: BC Juventus

Champions
  
Elite Division: BC Žalgiris Challenge Cup: BC Juventus

The MasterCard Baltic Basketball League 2010–11 was the 7th season of the Baltic Basketball League and the second under the title sponsorship of MasterCard. It was the fourth season of BBL as a two division league.

Contents

The format featured 14 teams in the Elite Division and 10 teams in the Challenge Cup. Elite Division regular season started on September 29, 2010 and ended with the Final Four held in the Kaunas Sports Hall. It was won by BC Žalgiris who defeated BK VEF Rīga in the championship game on April 10, 2011.

Challenge Cup regular season started on October 12, 2010 and ended with two-legged finals between BC Juventus and KK Kaunas. The champions were BC Juventus who won both games.

Teams

Elite Division

† As winner of the 2009–10 Challenge Cup
‡ As runner-up of the 2009–10 Challenge Cup
^ Qualified directly to playoffs

Challenge Cup

Regular season

The Regular season began on October 29, 2010 with BK Ventspils hosting BC Rūdupis.

Playoffs

2009-10 Elite Division finalists BC Žalgiris and BC Lietuvos Rytas qualified directly to quarterfinals where they were joined by the six top teams of the regular season.

Quarterfinals

BC Žalgiris vs. BC Nevėžis

BK Ventspils vs. Tartu Ülikool/Rock

Lietuvos Rytas vs. Šiauliai

BK VEF Rīga vs. BC Rūdupis

Round 1

Group A

Group B

Semifinals

BC Neptūnas vs. BC Juventus

BC Techasas vs. KK Kaunas

Third place games

BC Neptūnas vs. BC Techasas

Finals

BC Juventus vs. KK Kaunas

Relegation Playoffs

TTÜ/Kalev and SK Valmiera from the Elite Division and the Challenge Cup finalists BC Juventus and KK Kaunas participate in a two-legged playoffs for two spots in the BBL Elite Division for 2011–12 season.

Qualification - Pair B

  • BC Juventus and KK Kaunas will play in the BBL Elite Division in the 2011–12 season.
  • SK Valmiera and TTÜ/Kalev will be relegated to the BBL Challenge Cup for the 2011–12 season.
  • Individual Statistics

    Note: Excluded are all players who have played less than 10 games during all stages of the season in their respective division.

    Elite Division season MVP

  • Artsiom Parakhouski (BK VEF Rīga)
  • Elite Division Final Four MVP

  • Tadas Klimavičius (BC Žalgiris)
  • References

    2010–11 Baltic Basketball League Wikipedia