Champions Valencia3rd title Teams 41 + 8 Rising Star Bojan Dubljević Dates 15 Oct 2013 – 7 May 2014 Location Europe | Champion Valencia BC | |
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Duration October 15, 2013 – May 7, 2014 Similar |
The 2013–14 Eurocup Basketball season was the 12th edition of Europe's second-tier level transnational competition for men's professional basketball clubs, the Eurocup. The Eurocup is the league level that is one level below the Euroleague. Valencia BC, the winner of this competition earned a place at the group stage of the next season's Euroleague. Valencia beat Unics Kazan in two legs. It was the first time since the 2002–03 season the Finals were played over two games.
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Competition format changes
The competition increases from 32 to 48 teams in the Regular Season phase. The size of the groups will grow to six teams, where the first three qualified teams will join the Last 32 stage. Another innovation this season will see clubs divided into two regional conferences for the Regular Season phase.
Euroleague clubs that do not qualify for the Euroleague Top 16 will join the remaining 24 Eurocup teams for the Last 32 phase.
Teams
48 teams will participate in Eurocup Regular Season. 41 of them will qualify directly to this stage with the seven losers of the Euroleague Qualifying Rounds. For the Last 32, eight teams who didn't make the Top 16 in the 2013–14 Euroleague would enter.
Draw
The draws for the 2013–14 Eurocup were held on Saturday, 5 October, after the Euroleague Qualifying Rounds were played.
Teams were divided into two geographical conferences with 24 teams and 4 groups each. For the each conference teams were seeded into six pots of four teams in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period.
Two teams from the same country could not be drawn together in the same Regular Season group if possible. Liga ABA teams (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina) are considered as same country teams.
Regular season
The Regular Season began on Tuesday, October 15.
If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
- Head-to-head record.
- Head-to-head point differential.
- Point differential during the Regular Season.
- Points scored during the regular season.
- Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season match.
Last 32 phase
The Last 32 runs from January 7 to February 19, 2014
If teams were level on record at the end of the Last 32 phase, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
- Head-to-head record.
- Head-to-head point differential.
- Point differential during the Last 32 phase.
- Points scored during the Last 32 phase.
- Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Last 32 phase match.
Knockout phase
In the knockout phase rounds will be played in a home-and-away format, with the overall cumulative score determining the winner of a round. Thus, the score of one single game can be tied.