2000–01 FIBA Saporta Cup

The 2000–01 FIBA Saporta Cup was the thirty-fifth edition of FIBA's 2nd-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition. It occurred between October 17, 2000, and April 17, 2001. The final was held at Hala Torwar, Warsaw, Poland.

2000–01 FIBA Saporta Cup
League	FIBA Saporta Cup
Sport	Basketball
Final
Champions	Maroussi
Runners-up	Élan Chalon
Finals MVP	Jimmy Oliver

Competition system

• 24 teams (national domestic cup champions, plus the best qualified teams in the most important European national domestic leagues), entered a preliminary group stage, divided into four groups of six teams each, playing a round-robin. The final standing were based on individual wins and defeats. In case of a tie between two or more teams, after the group stage, the following criteria were used to decide the final classification: 1) number of wins in one-to-one games between the teams; 2) basket average between the teams; 3) general basket average within the group.
• The top four teams from each group qualified for a 1/8 Final Playoff (X-pairings, home and away games), while the winners advanced further to 1/4 Finals and 1/2 Finals.
• The Final was played at a predetermined venue.

Team allocation

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.: League position after eventual Playoffs
• CW: Cup winners

Regular season
Caja San Fernando (5th)	Beşiktaş (4th)	Anwil Włocławek (2nd)	Porto (CW)
Pamesa Valencia (6th)	Pınar Karşıyaka (5th)	Slovakofarma Pezinok (1st)	Arkadia Traiskirchen Lions (1st)
Aris (8th)	UNICS (3rd)	Pivovarna Laško (2nd)	Telindus Racing Antwerpen (1st)
Maroussi (10th)	Lineltex AC Imola (12th)*	Zagreb (4th)	Sakalai (4th)
Paris Racing (6th)	Telekom Baskets Bonn (4th)	Crvena zvezda (3rd)	Namika Lahti (1st)
Élan Chalon (8th)	Hapoel Galil Elyon (4th)	Borac Banja Luka (1st)	Keravnos Keo (1st)

*As a substitute for Olimpia Milano which team withdrew from competition

Regular season

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		VAL	MAR	CHA	HGE	KAR	LAŠ
1	Pamesa Valencia	10	7	3	877	857	+20	17	Advanced to Top 16		—	95–81	77–79	90–86	95–93	89–87
2	Maroussi	10	7	3	875	813	+62	17			82–75	—	70–62	98–82	101–92	112–71
3	Élan Chalon	10	6	4	714	693	+21	16			67–77	75–56	—	72–67	73–57	82–88
4	Hapoel Galil Elyon	10	4	6	860	837	+23	14			94–97	89–83	60–68	—	121–90	83–85
5	Pınar Karşıyaka	10	3	7	854	912	−58	13			105–91	95–99	66–78	87–90	—	89–88
6	Pivovarna Laško	10	3	7	797	865	−68	13			83–91	77–93	75–58	67–88	76–80	—

Source: FIBA Europe

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		UNI	POR	ARI	BEŞ	ARK	ZAG
1	UNICS	10	8	2	709	509	+200	18	Advanced to Top 16		—	97–70	93–61	60–65	93–50	20–0
2	Porto	10	7	3	654	606	+48	17			62–75	—	74–73	72–82	88–81	20–0
3	Aris	10	7	3	719	659	+60	17			75–73	66–81	—	101–98	112–96	20–0
4	Beşiktaş	10	5	5	688	691	−3	15			65–85	57–74	87–101	—	85–84	20–0
5	Arkadia Traiskirchen Lions	10	3	7	658	763	−105	13			61–93	75–93	57–90	114–109	—	20–0
6	Zagreb	10	0	10	0	200	−200	10			0–20	0–20	0–20	0–20	0–20	—

Source: FIBA Europe

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		BONN	KER	CZV	CSF	PAR	SAK
1	Telekom Baskets Bonn	10	8	2	880	801	+79	18	Advanced to Top 16		—	84–52	83–75	97–82	87–83	88–76
2	Keravnos Keo	10	5	5	814	838	−24	15			87–95	—	93–79	92–90	92–83	78–92
3	Crvena zvezda	10	5	5	784	790	−6	15			94–89	95–84	—	80–76	66–68	69–68
4	Caja San Fernando	10	4	6	836	815	+21	14			76–83	70–78	79–81	—	96–84	102–63
5	Paris Racing	10	4	6	789	810	−21	14			87–72	69–82	65–61	78–85	—	79–67
6	Sakalai	10	4	6	802	851	−49	14			89–102	81–76	85–84	79–80	102–93	—

Source: FIBA Europe

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		ANW	ANT	BOR	PEZ	LAH	IMO
1	Anwil Włocławek	10	9	1	814	754	+60	19	Advanced to Top 16		—	90–84	87–83	81–79	91–76	82–51
2	Telindus Racing Antwerpen	10	6	4	804	777	+27	16			67–75	—	102–84	90–73	77–58	79–71
3	Borac Banja Luka	10	5	5	855	802	+53	15			90–74	72–78	—	94–76	111–69	87–70
4	Slovakofarma Pezinok	10	5	5	851	832	+19	15			73–76	79–82	81–68	—	99–86	86–80
5	Namika Lahti	10	3	7	770	863	−93	13			59–60	89–66	85–83	76–102	—	93–69
6	Lineltex AC Imola	10	2	8	803	869	−66	12			92–98	86–79	80–83	99–103	105–79	—

Source: FIBA Europe

Top 16

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Beşiktaş	156–188	Pamesa Valencia	66–81	90–107
Aris	76–108	Maroussi	76–88	0–20*
Élan Chalon	141–120	Porto	80–64	61–56
Hapoel Galil Elyon	153–166	UNICS	83–88	70–78
Slovakofarma Pezinok	179–207	Telekom Baskets Bonn	93–110	86–97
Borac Banja Luka	162–165	Keravnos Keo	89–74	73–91
Crvena zvezda	89–113	Telindus Racing Antwerpen	89–93	0–20**
Caja San Fernando	134–137	Anwil Włocławek	69–67	65–70

* Aris didn't play the second leg because its players were on strike for not getting their salaries and Maroussi received a forfeit (20–0) in this game.

** The original second leg was suspended after several players of Telindus Racing Antwerpen and Crvena zvezda were disqualified. Later, FIBA decided that his game should be replayed a week later behind closed doors to avoid further incidents, but the Yugoslavian team didn't show up for the match and Telindus received a forfeit (20–0).

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Keravnos Keo	122–175	Pamesa Valencia	69–74	53–101
Telindus Racing Antwerpen	125–148	UNICS	62–61	63–87
Maroussi	203–173	Telekom Baskets Bonn	102–82	101–91
Élan Chalon	128–126	Anwil Włocławek	65–54	63–72

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pamesa Valencia	132–138	Élan Chalon	69–72	63–66
UNICS	176–180	Maroussi	95–87	81–93

Final

April 17, Hala Torwar, Warsaw

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Maroussi	74–72	Élan Chalon

2000–01 FIBA Saporta Cup Champions
Maroussi 1st title

Awards

FIBA Saporta Cup Finals MVP

• Jimmy Oliver ( Maroussi)

See also

• 2000–01 Euroleague
• 2000–01 FIBA SuproLeague
• 2000–01 FIBA Korać Cup

External links

• 2000–01 FIBA Saporta Cup @ FIBA Europe.com
• 2000–01 FIBA Saporta Cup at Linguasport