2011–12 Euroleague

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 4th Greek win in that time.

Euroleague
The Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul hosted the Final Four
Season	2011–12
Duration	19 October 2011 – 13 May 2012
Teams	24
Regular season
Season MVP	Andrei Kirilenko
Finals
Champions	Olympiacos (2nd title)
Runners-up	CSKA Moscow
Third place	FC Barcelona Regal
Fourth place	Panathinaikos
Final Four MVP	Vassilis Spanoulis
Statistical leaders
Points Bo McCalebb 16.9 Rebounds Andrei Kirilenko 7.5 Assists Omar Cook 5.7 Index Rating Andrei Kirilenko 24.2
← 2010–11 2012–13 → All statistics correct as of 7 September 2014.

Teams

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

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: Euroleague title holders):

• A: Qualified through an A–licence
• 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• QR: Qualifying rounds
• WC: Wild card
• EC: Champion of the 2010–11 Eurocup

Regular season
FC Barcelona Regal (A)	Montepaschi Siena (A)	CSKA Moscow (A)	Asseco Prokom Gdynia (A)
Gescrap Bizkaia Bilbao (2nd)	Bennet Cantù (2nd)	UNICS (EC)	Partizan (1st)
Unicaja (A)	EA7 Milano (WC)[Note EA7]	Panathinaikos (A)	Maccabi Electra (A)
Real Madrid (A)	Fenerbahçe Ülker (A)	Olympiacos (A)	Union Olimpija (2nd)
Caja Laboral (A)	Anadolu Efes (A)	Zagreb (1st)
SLUC Nancy (1st)	Žalgiris (A)	Brose Baskets (1st)
Qualifying rounds
Cholet (2nd)	Galatasaray (2nd)	ČEZ Nymburk (1st)	PAOK (3rd)
BCM Gravelines (3rd)	Banvit (3rd)	Cibona (WC)	Alba Berlin (WC)
ASVEL (WC)	VEF Rīga (1st)	Lietuvos rytas (2nd)	Budućnost (1st)
Belgacom Spirou (1st)	PGE Turów (WC)	Donetsk (WC)	Khimki (2nd)

1. ^
   Vacant A-licence (EA7): Euroleague Basketball suspended the A-license of Virtus Roma after Roma finished in 9th position in the 2010–11 Lega Basket Serie A, awarding a wild card entry to EA7 Milano instead.

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.^[2]

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 Belgacom Spirou

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 2011–12 Euroleague qualifying rounds

A total number of sixteen teams participated in the qualifying rounds. The qualifying rounds consisted of two final eight knock-out tournaments. The two winning teams advance to the regular season.

Bracket A

Games in Bracket A were played at the Siemens Arena in Vilnius, Lithuania.

	First qualifying round 29–30 September					Second qualifying round 1 October					Third qualifying round 2 October
	ASVEL		80
	Gravelines		72
						ASVEL		83
						Galatasaray		93
	PAOK		64
	Galatasaray		77
											Galatasaray		71
											Lietuvos rytas		63
	Lietuvos rytas		83
	Budućnost		64
						Lietuvos rytas		88
						Cibona		71
	Cibona		77
	Cholet		70

Bracket B

Games in Bracket B were played at the Spiroudome in Charleroi, Belgium.

	First qualifying round 29–30 September					Second qualifying round 1 October					Third qualifying round 2 October
	Alba Berlin		82
	VEF Rīga		60
						Alba Berlin		63
						Belgacom Spirou		74
	Belgacom Spirou		61
	Donetsk		59
											Belgacom Spirou		79
											ČEZ Nymburk		53
	Khimki		74
	PGE Turów		67
						Khimki		79
						ČEZ Nymburk		86
	ČEZ Nymburk		69
	Banvit		57

Regular season

The regular season began on 19 October 2011. 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.

Group A

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Regular Season Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Fenerbahçe Ülker	10	6	4	785	758	+27	Advance to Top 16
2	Olympiacos	10	6	4	782	757	+25
3	Bennet Cantù	10	5	5	724	744	−20
4	Gescrap Bizkaia Bilbao	10	5	5	776	755	+21
5	Caja Laboral	10	5	5	792	755	+37
6	SLUC Nancy	10	3	7	743	833	−90

Source: Euroleague

Group B

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Regular Season Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	CSKA Moscow	10	10	0	870	729	+141	Advance to Top 16
2	Panathinaikos	10	7	3	834	739	+95
3	Unicaja	10	4	6	791	808	−17
4	Žalgiris	10	4	6	763	812	−49
5	Brose Baskets	10	3	7	773	794	−21
6	Zagreb	10	2	8	718	867	−149

Source: Euroleague

Group C

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Regular Season Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Real Madrid	10	8	2	879	773	+106	Advance to Top 16
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

Source: Euroleague

Group D

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Regular Season Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	FC Barcelona Regal	10	9	1	793	599	+194	Advance to Top 16
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 Gdynia	10	1	9	618	743	−125
6	Union Olimpija	10	1	9	589	745	−156

Source: Euroleague

Top 16

The draw took place in Barcelona, Spain on 28 December 2011 at 13:00 CET.^[3][4] The sixteen 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.^[5]

Group E

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Top 16 Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	CSKA Moscow	6	5	1	509	413	+96	Advance to quarterfinals
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

Source: Euroleague

Group F

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Top 16 Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Montepaschi Siena	6	4	2	493	435	+58	Advance to quarterfinals
2	Gescrap Bizkaia Bilbao	6	4	2	437	423	+14
3	Real Madrid	6	4	2	496	489	+7
4	Unicaja	6	0	6	407	486	−79

Source: Euroleague

Group G

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Top 16 Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Panathinaikos	6	4	2	436	394	+42	Advance to quarterfinals
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

Source: Euroleague

Group H

Main article: Euroleague 2011–12 Top 16 Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	FC Barcelona Regal	6	6	0	430	384	+46	Advance to quarterfinals
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

Source: Euroleague

Quarterfinals

Main article: 2011–12 Euroleague 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 Bilbao	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 Regal	3–0	UNICS	78–66	66–63	67–56

Final four

Main article: 2012 Euroleague Final Four

	Semifinals May 11				Championship game May 13
	CSKA Moscow	66
	Panathinaikos	64
					CSKA Moscow	61
					Olympiacos	62
	Olympiacos	68
	FC Barcelona Regal	64
					Third place game
					Panathinaikos	69
					FC Barcelona Regal	74

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

^[6]

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)^[7]

Best Defender

• Andrei Kirilenko ( CSKA Moscow)^[8]

Rising Star

• Nikola Mirotić ( Real Madrid)^[9]

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

• Dusan Ivković ( Olympiacos)^[10]

MVP Weekly

Main article: EuroLeague Weekly MVP Award

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

Main article: EuroLeague Monthly MVP Award

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 Archived 15 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine Euroleague.net 20 June 2011
2. Turkish Airlines Euroleague Draw seeds Archived 31 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine Euroleague.net – 4 July 2011
3. Top 16 Draw set for 28 December in Barcelona Archived 14 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, euroleague.net
4. Turkish Airlines Euroleague Top 16 Draw results Archived 7 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine, euroleague.net
5. Top 16 Draw, Criteria and Procedure Archived 10 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine, euroleague.net
6. 2011–12 All-Euroleague First, Second teams announced Archived 15 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Euroleague.net. Retrieved 2012-05-14.
7. Montepaschi Siena's Bo McCalebb wins the Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy Archived 12 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Euroleague.net (17 April 2012). Retrieved 2012-05-14.
8. Head coaches vote CSKA's Kirilenko best defender! Archived 2 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Euroleague.net (19 April 2012). Retrieved 2012-05-14.
9. Real Madrid's Mirotic becomes first two-time Rising Star winner Archived 2 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Euroleague.net (18 April 2012). Retrieved 2012-05-14.
10. "2011-12 Alexander Gomelskiy Trophy: Dusan Ivkovic, Olympiacos Piraeus". Euroleague. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2014..

External links

• Official website