2011–12 Euroleague

Euroleague
The Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul hosted the Final Four
Champions	Olympiacos 2nd title
Runners-up	CSKA Moscow
Third place	FC Barcelona
Fourth place	Panathinaikos
Teams	24
Duration	19 October 2011 – 13 May 2012
Awards
MVP	Andrei Kirilenko
Final Four MVP	Vassilis Spanoulis
Coach of the Year	Dusan Ivković
Rising Star	Nikola Mirotić
Best Defender	Andrei Kirilenko
Statistical leaders
PIR	Andrei Kirilenko 24.2
Points	Bo McCalebb 16.9
Rebounds	Andrei Kirilenko 7.5
Assists	Omar Cook 5.7

The 2011–12 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 12th season of the modern era of Euroleague and the second under the title sponsorship of Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 55th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs. The Final Four was held at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, in 11–13 May 2012. It was won by the Piraeus club Olympiacos (2nd title), who defeated CSKA Moscow in the championship game. It was the 5th final involving a Greek club in the last six seasons, and 3rd Greek win in that time.

Regular season teams

On 20 June 2011 the teams for this season were announced.^[1]

Key to colors

	Champion
	Runner-up
	Third place
	Fourth place
	Eliminated in Quarterfinals
	Eliminated in Last 16
	Eliminated in the regular season

Country (League)	Teams	Teams^License type (ranking in 2010–11 national championship)
Spain (ACB)	5	FC Barcelona ^A (1)	Bilbao Bizkaia ^B (2)	Real Madrid ^A (3)	Caja Laboral ^A (4)	Unicaja Málaga ^A (8)
Italy (Lega A)	3	Montepaschi Siena ^A (1)	Bennet Cantù ^B (2)	EA7 Milano ^WC (3)
Turkey (TBL)	3	Fenerbahçe Ülker ^A (1)	Galatasaray ^B QU (2)	Anadolu Efes ^A (4)
Greece (GBL)	3	Panathinaikos ^A (1)	Olympiacos ^A (2)	PAOK ^C (3)
Russia (PBL)	2	CSKA Moscow ^A (1)	UNICS ^C (3)
Belgium (BLB)	1	Spirou Charleroi ^B QU (1)
Croatia (A-1 Liga)	1	Zagreb ^B (1)
France (LNB Pro A)	1	Nancy ^B (1)
Germany (BBL)	1	Brose Bamberg ^B (1)
Israel (BSL)	1	Maccabi Electra ^A (1)
Lithuania (LKL)	1	Žalgiris ^A (1)
Poland (PLK)	1	Asseco Prokom ^A[2] (1)
Serbia (KLS)	1	Partizan ^B (1)
Slovenia (SKL)	1	Union Olimpija ^B (2)

A new A License was granted to Asseco Prokom Gdynia, making them the 14th club with this distinction. A C License was given to Eurocup 2010–11 winner UNICS. Euroleague Basketball suspended the A License of Virtus Roma after they finished in the bottom half of Lega A in 2010–11, awarding a wild card entry to EA7 Milano.

Spirou Charleroi and Galatasaray entered the 2011–2012 Euroleague Regular Season via qualification.

Draw

The draws for the 2011–12 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was held on Monday, 4 July. The draws determined the qualifying-round matchups and regular-season groups for the Euroleague, as well as the qualifying rounds for the Eurocup and the regular-season for the EuroChallenge.

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.^[3]

Two teams from the same country cannot coincide in the same Regular Season group, except for Spain that has five teams participating in the competition.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5	Pot 6
FC Barcelona Olympiacos Panathinaikos Real Madrid	Montepaschi Siena Caja Laboral Maccabi Electra CSKA Moscow	Partizan UNICS Unicaja Málaga Fenerbahçe Ülker	Žalgiris Asseco Prokom Gescrap Bizkaia Anadolu Efes	EA7 Milano Union Olimpija Brose Bamberg Bennet Cantù	Nancy Zagreb Galatasaray Spirou Charleroi

Euroleague qualifying round teams

The Qualifying Rounds consisted of two Final-Eight tournaments, held in Vilnius and Charleroi. The two winning teams advance to the Euroleague Regular Season

	First qualifying round					Second qualifying round					Third qualifying round
	1	ASVEL	80
	8	Gravelines	72
						ASVEL		83
						Galatasaray		93
	5	PAOK	64
	4	Galatasaray	77
											Galatasaray		71
											Lietuvos Rytas		63
	3	Lietuvos Rytas	83
	6	Budućnost	64
						Lietuvos Rytas		88
						Cibona		71
	7	Cibona	77
	2	Cholet	70

	First qualifying round					Second qualifying round					Third qualifying round
	1	Alba Berlin	82
	8	VEF Rīga	60
						Alba Berlin		63
						Spirou Charleroi		74
	5	Spirou Charleroi	61
	4	Donetsk	59
											Spirou Charleroi		79
											ČEZ Nymburk		53
	3	Khimki	74
	6	PGE Turów	67
						Khimki		79
						ČEZ Nymburk		86
	7	ČEZ Nymburk	69
	2	Banvit	57

Regular season

The Regular Season begins on 19 October.

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.

Key to colors

Top four places in each group advanced to Top 16

Group A Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Fenerbahçe Ülker 10 6 4 785 758 +27 2. Olympiacos 10 6 4 782 757 +25 3. Bennet Cantù 10 5 5 724 744 −20 4. Gescrap Bizkaia 10 5 5 776 755 +21 5. Caja Laboral 10 5 5 792 755 +37 6. Nancy 10 3 7 743 833 −90

Group B Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. CSKA Moscow 10 10 0 870 729 +141 2. Panathinaikos 10 7 3 834 739 +95 3. Unicaja Málaga 10 4 6 791 808 −17 4. Žalgiris 10 4 6 763 812 −49 5. Brose Bamberg 10 3 7 773 794 −21 6. Zagreb 10 2 8 718 867 −149

Group C Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Real Madrid 10 8 2 879 773 +106 2. Maccabi Electra 10 7 3 790 732 +58 3. Anadolu Efes 10 5 5 721 751 −30 4. EA7 Milano 10 4 6 738 734 +4 5. Partizan 10 4 6 739 774 −35 6. Belgacom Spirou 10 2 8 729 832 −103

Group D Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. FC Barcelona 10 9 1 793 559 +194 2. Montepaschi Siena 10 8 2 779 696 +83 3. UNICS 10 7 3 702 656 +46 4. Galatasaray 10 4 6 694 736 −42 5. Asseco Prokom 10 1 9 618 743 −125 6. Union Olimpija 10 1 9 589 745 −156

Top 16

The draw took place in Barcelona, Spain on 28 December 2011 at 13.00 CET.^[4][5] The 16 qualified teams were divided into four seeds based on their final standings in the regular season. Teams coming from the same regular season group were kept from coinciding in the same Top 16 group and an effort was made to keep teams from the same country from coinciding as well. Teams from the same city, Anadolu Efes, Fenerbahçe Ülker and Galatasaray Medical Park from Istanbul; Olympiacos and Panathinaikos from Greater Athens, or teams playing in the same arena were prevented from playing both at home in the same matchday.^[6]

Key to colors

Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals

Group E Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. CSKA Moscow 6 5 1 509 413 +96 2. Olympiacos 6 3 3 457 471 −14 3. Galatasaray 6 3 3 423 438 −15 4. Anadolu Efes 6 1 5 387 454 −67

Group F Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Montepaschi Siena 6 4 2 493 435 +58 2. Gescrap Bizkaia 6 4 2 437 423 +14 3. Real Madrid 6 4 2 496 489 +7 4. Unicaja Málaga 6 0 6 407 486 −79

Group G Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Panathinaikos 6 4 2 436 394 +42 2. UNICS 6 3 3 432 423 +9 3. EA7 Milano 6 3 3 379 390 −11 4. Fenerbahçe Ülker 6 2 4 420 460 −40

Group H Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. FC Barcelona 6 6 0 430 384 +46 2. Maccabi Electra 6 3 3 427 425 +2 3. Bennet Cantù 6 3 3 420 426 −6 4. Žalgiris 6 0 6 429 471 −42

Quarterfinals

Team 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg	5th leg
CSKA Moscow	3–1	Gescrap Bizkaia	98–71	79–60	81–94	73–71
Montepaschi Siena	1–3	Olympiacos	75–82	81–80	55–75	69–76
Panathinaikos	3–2	Maccabi Electra	93–73	92–94	62–65	78–69	86–85
FC Barcelona	3–0	UNICS	78–66	66–63	67–56

Final Four

The Final Four is the last phase of each Euroleague season, and is held over a weekend. The semifinal games are played on Friday evening. Sunday starts with the third-place game, followed by the championship final.

Semifinals

May 11, Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul

Team 1	Score	Team 2
CSKA Moscow	66–64	Panathinaikos
Olympiacos	68–64	FC Barcelona

3rd place game

May 13, Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Panathinaikos	69–74	FC Barcelona

Final

May 13, Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul

Team 1	Score	Team 2
CSKA Moscow	61–62	Olympiacos

2011–12 Euroleague Champions
Olympiacos 2nd Title

Final standings

	Team
	Olympiacos
	CSKA Moscow
	FC Barcelona
	Panathinaikos

Final Four 2012 MVP

Vassilis Spanoulis (Olympiacos)

Individual statistics

Rating

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PIR
1.	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow	17	411	24.18
2.	Nenad Krstić	CSKA Moscow	22	405	18.41
3.	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena	17	294	17.29

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1.	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena	17	287	16.88
2.	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	21	350	16.67
3.	Sonny Weems	Žalgiris	15	233	15.53

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rebounds	RPG
1.	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow	17	127	7.47
2.	Joel Freeland	Unicaja Málaga	14	95	6.79
3.	Ioannis Bourousis	EA7 Milano	15	96	6.40

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1.	Omar Cook	EA7 Milano	16	91	5.69
2.	Sergio Rodríguez	Real Madrid	16	86	5.38
3.	Miloš Teodosić	CSKA Moscow	22	110	5.00

Other Stats

Category	Name	Team	Games	Stat
Steals per game	Jamon Gordon	Galatasaray	16	1.81
Blocks per game	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow	17	1.94
Turnovers per game	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	21	3.67
Fouls drawn per game	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	21	5.95
Minutes per game	Henry Domercant	UNICS	19	31:56
2FG%	Sasha Kaun	CSKA Moscow	21	0.711
3FG%	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena	17	0.526
	Tomas Ress		20
FT%	Jorge Garbajosa	Unicaja	14	1.000

Game highs

Category	Name	Team	Stat
Rating	Lynn Greer	UNICS	43
Points	Lynn Greer	UNICS	33
Rebounds	Donatas Motiejūnas	Asseco Prokom	21
Assists	John Linehan	Nancy	15
Steals	3 occasions		6
Blocks	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow	5
	Serge Ibaka	Real Madrid
Turnovers	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	9
	Nicolas Batum	Nancy
Fouls Drawn	3 occasions		12

Awards

Euroleague 2011–12 MVP

• Andrei Kirilenko ( CSKA Moscow)

Euroleague 2011–12 Final Four MVP

• Vassilis Spanoulis ( Olympiacos)

All-Euroleague Team 2011–12

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All-Euroleague First Team	Club Team	All-Euroleague Second Team	Club Team
Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos	Miloš Teodosić	CSKA Moscow
Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena
Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow	Juan Carlos Navarro	FC Barcelona
Erazem Lorbek	FC Barcelona	Henry Domercant	UNICS
Nenad Krstić	CSKA Moscow	Mike Batiste	Panathinaikos

Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

• Bo McCalebb ( Montepaschi Siena)^[8]

Best Defender

• Andrei Kirilenko ( CSKA Moscow)^[9]

Rising Star

• Nikola Mirotić ( Real Madrid)^[10]

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

• Dusan Ivković ( Olympiacos)^[11]

MVP Weekly

Regular season

Game	Player	Team	PIR
1	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow	37
2	Nicolas Batum	Nancy	36
3	Jordan Farmar	Maccabi Electra	35
4	Nicolas Batum (2)	Nancy	35
5	Andrei Kirilenko (2)	CSKA Moscow	39
6	Fernando San Emeterio	Caja Laboral	36
7	Erazem Lorbek	FC Barcelona	25
	Milan Mačvan	Partizan	25
8	Nikola Mirotić	Real Madrid	33
9	Nenad Krstić	CSKA Moscow	31
10	Pietro Aradori	Montepaschi Siena	33

Top 16

Game	Player	Team	PIR
1	Vladimir Veremeenko	UNICS	32
2	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena	36
3	Nenad Krstić (2)	CSKA Moscow	31
4	Aaron Jackson	Gescrap Bizkaia	28
5	Omar Cook	EA7 Milano	22
6	Manuchar Markoishvili	Bennet Cantù	35

Quarterfinals

Game	Player	Team	PIR
1	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos	31
2	Andrei Kirilenko (3)	CSKA Moscow	31
3	Kostas Vasileiadis	Gescrap Bizkaia	21
4	Andrei Kirilenko (4)	CSKA Moscow	29
5	Dimitris Diamantidis (2)	Panathinaikos	34

MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team
October 2011	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow
November 2011	Nenad Krstić	CSKA Moscow
December 2011	Nikola Mirotić	Real Madrid
January 2012	Henry Domercant	UNICS
February 2012	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos
March 2012	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos

See also

• FIBA European Champions Cup and EuroLeague history
• Rosters of Top Teams in the European Club Competitions
• EuroLeague Finals
• European Cup and EuroLeague records and statistics
• EuroLeague Final Four
• EuroLeague Awards
• 2011–12 Eurocup Basketball

References

1. 2011–12 Turkish Airlines Euroleague teams Euroleague.net 20 June 2011
2. Euroleague assembly meets before 2011–12 draw Euroleague.net 7 July 2011
3. Turkish Airlines Euroleague Draw seeds Euroleague.net – 4 July 2011
4. Top 16 Draw set for 28 December in Barcelona, euroleague.net
5. Turkish Airlines Euroleague Top 16 Draw results, euroleague.net
6. Top 16 Draw, Criteria and Procedure, euroleague.net
7. 2011–12 All-Euroleague First, Second teams announced. Euroleague.net. Retrieved on 2012-05-14.
8. Montepaschi Siena's Bo McCalebb wins the Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy. Euroleague.net (17 April 2012). Retrieved on 2012-05-14.
9. Head coaches vote CSKA's Kirilenko best defender!. Euroleague.net (19 April 2012). Retrieved on 2012-05-14.
10. Real Madrid's Mirotic becomes first two-time Rising Star winner. Euroleague.net (18 April 2012). Retrieved on 2012-05-14.

External links

• Official website