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2015–16 EuroLeague Women

The 2015–16 EuroLeague Women season is the 20th edition of EuroLeague Women under its current name.

EuroLeague Women
Season2015–16
Duration14 October 2015 — 17 April 2016
Number of games125
Number of teams16 (Regular Season)
Finals
ChampionsRussia UMMC Ekaterinburg
  Runners-upRussia Nadezhda Orenburg
Third placeTurkey Fenerbahçe
Fourth placeCzech Republic ZVVZ USK Praha
Finals MVPDiana Taurasi

Teams edit

Teams and seedings were unveiled by FIBA Europe on 3 July 2015.[1]

Regular season
  UMMC Ekaterinburg (1st)   AGÜ Spor (2nd)   ZVVZ USK Praha (1st)   Good Angels Košice (1st)
  Nadezhda Orenburg (2nd)   Fenerbahçe (3rd)   Wisła Can-Pack Kraków (1st)   Famila Schio (1st)
  Dynamo Kursk (3rd)   Tango Bourges Basket (1st)   Uniqa Sopron (1st)   Mithra Castors Braine (1st)
  Galatasaray Odeabank (1st)   Villeneuve-d'Ascq (2nd)   Spar CityLift Girona (1st)
Qualification round
  CB Avenida (2nd)   BK Zabiny Brno (2nd)

Draw edit

17 teams registered for EuroLeague Women 2015–16,[2] resulting in 15 direct qualifiers, and one preliminary round to be played between BK Brno and CB Avenida.[3] However, on August 6, BK Brno announced its withdrawal from European competitions due to financial reasons, automatically qualifying Perfumerías Avenida to the Regular Season[4]

Seed Regular Season
1   UMMC Ekaterinburg   Fenerbahçe
2   Galatasaray   ZVVZ USK Praha
3   Tango Bourges Basket   Dynamo Kursk
4   Good Angels Košice   Nadezhda Orenburg
5   AGÜ Spor   Famila Schio
6   Wisła Can-Pack Kraków   Villeneuve-d'Ascq
7   Uniqa Sopron   Mithra Castors Braine
8   Spar CityLift Girona QR Winner

Regular season edit

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Location of teams of the 2015–16 Euroleague Women regular season.
  Green: Group A;   Red: Group B.

Regular season will start on October 14 and will finish on February 10, 2016.

The four top teams of each group will qualify to the quarterfinals.

If teams are level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers are 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 game.

Group A edit

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification FEN FAM KUR GAL KOŠ VIL AVE SOP
1   Fenerbahçe 14 12 2 927 834 +93 26 Advance to quarterfinals — 60 – 66 66 – 56 57 – 56 62 – 45 77 – 54 64 – 59 86 – 69
2   Famila Schio 14 10 4 1022 892 +130 24 62 – 64 — 79 – 72 64 – 70 89 – 63 75 – 57 88 – 70 97 – 61
3   Dynamo Kursk 14 10 4 1012 855 +157 24 72 – 40 63 – 58 — 75 – 60 70 – 49 66 – 49 77 – 64 98 – 63
4   Galatasaray Odeabank 14 9 5 889 829 +60 23 60 – 71 58 – 75 62 – 55 — 69 – 57 59 – 35 61 – 59 81 – 56
5   Good Angels Košice 14 5 9 869 893 −24 19 Transfer to EuroCup Women 58 – 67 56 – 69 53 – 64 54 – 49 — 55 – 60 66 – 47 81 – 53
6   Villeneuve-d'Ascq 14 5 9 842 920 −78 19 55 – 69 70 – 73 78 – 70 62 – 66 48 – 78 — 78 – 66 78 – 44
7   Perfumerías Avenida 14 4 10 902 945 −43 18 Eliminated 70 – 75 63 – 52 66 – 72 49 – 62 76 – 68 72 – 49 — 74 – 60
8   Uniqa Sopron 14 1 13 844 1139 −295 15 52 – 69 65 – 75 68 – 102 60 – 76 70 – 86 50 – 69 73 – 67 —
Updated to match(es) played on 10 February 2016. Source: FibaEurope.com

Group B edit

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification EKA NAD USK WIS BOU AGÜ BRA GIR
1   UMMC Ekaterinburg 14 12 2 1050 854 +196 26 Advance to quarterfinals — 74 – 84 76 – 73 89 – 48 69 – 63 93 – 48 75 – 70 80 – 61
2   Nadezhda Orenburg 14 9 5 907 844 +63 23 54 – 64 — 58 – 54 67 – 70 66 – 58 68 – 61 63 – 70 65 – 41
3   ZVVZ USK Praha 14 8 6 937 826 +111 22 52 – 69 67 – 59 — 64 – 40 63 – 49 68 – 72 75 – 58 68 – 43
4   Wisła Can-Pack Kraków 14 7 7 824 945 −121 21 52 – 88 54 – 51 57 – 78 — 66 – 64 67 – 66 69 – 76 54 – 46
5   Tango Bourges Basket 14 6 8 842 841 +1 20 Transfer to EuroCup Women 58 – 65 61 – 71 65 – 75 63 – 45 — 63 – 57 57 – 52 68 – 47
6   AGÜ Spor 14 5 9 902 958 −56 19 68 – 54 67 – 75 77 – 75 66 – 68 55 – 62 — 60 – 56 79 – 69
7   Mithra Castors Braine 14 5 9 868 946 −78 19 Eliminated 52 – 78 47 – 67 49 – 73 65 – 74 63 – 55 68 – 64 — 73 – 60
8   Spar CityLift Girona 14 4 10 805 921 −116 18 71 – 76 56 – 59 54 – 52 62 – 60 47 – 56 72 – 62 76 – 69 —
Updated to match(es) played on 10 February 2016. Source: [citation needed]

Quarter-finals edit

Quarter-finals will be played on March 8, 11 and 16, 2016.

Team #1 Agg. Team #2 1st 2nd 3rd
Fenerbahçe   2–0   Wisła Can-Pack Kraków 79–70 79–63
Famila Schio   0–2   ZVVZ USK Praha 56–68 53–86
UMMC Ekaterinburg   2–1   Galatasaray Odeabank 72–56 57–66 86–66
Nadezhda Orenburg   2–0   Dynamo Kursk 78–68 73–70

Final Four edit

The Final Four will be played on April 15 and 17, 2016.

 
Semi-finals
15 April		Final
17 April
 
      
 
 
 
 
   Fenerbahçe 68
 
 
 
   Nadezhda Orenburg 74
 
   Nadezhda Orenburg 69
 
 
 
   UMMC Ekaterinburg 72
 
   ZVVZ USK Praha 72
 
 
   UMMC Ekaterinburg 78
 
Third place
 
 
 
 
 
   Fenerbahçe 73
 
 
   ZVVZ USK Praha 69

All times are local (UTC+3).

Semifinals edit

15 April 2016
17:00
ZVVZ USK Praha   72–78   UMMC Ekaterinburg
Scoring by quarter: 13–14, 9–19, 12–13, 38–32
Pts: Petrović, Šteinberga 21
Rebs: Šteinberga 10
Asts: Palau 8		 Pts: Taurasi 21
Rebs: Lyttle, Meesseman 9
Asts: three players 3
Fenerbahce Ulker Arena, Istanbul
Attendance: 500
Referees:
Anne Panther (GER)
Manuel Mazzoni (ITA)
Georgios Poursanidis (GRE)
15 April 2016
20:00
Fenerbahçe   68–74   Nadezhda Orenburg
Scoring by quarter: 16–18, 12–18, 12–17, 28–21
Pts: Lavender 24
Rebs: Lavender 11
Asts: Vardarlı 6		 Pts: Bonner 20
Rebs: Bonner 8
Asts: Cruz 4
Fenerbahce Ulker Arena, Istanbul
Attendance: 4,252
Referees:
Dragan Neskovic (SRB)
Andris Aunkrogers (LAT)
Milan Nedović (SLO)

Third place game edit

17 April 2016
14:00
Fenerbahçe   73–69   ZVVZ USK Praha
Scoring by quarter: 18–24, 19–10, 12–16, 24–19
Pts: Quigley 22
Rebs: Hollingsworth 8
Asts: three players 3		 Pts: Vaughn 17
Rebs: Petrović 10
Asts: Palau 6
Fenerbahce Ulker Arena, Istanbul
Attendance: 2,678
Referees:
Dragan Neskovic (SRB)
Anne Panther (GER)
Andrada Monika Csender (ROU)

Final edit

17 April 2016
17:00
Nadezhda Orenburg   69–72   UMMC Ekaterinburg
Scoring by quarter: 19–17, 21–16, 16–15, 13–24
Pts: Bonner 26
Rebs: Robinson 10
Asts: Cruz 5		 Pts: Taurasi 22
Rebs: Lyttle 12
Asts: Toliver 5
Fenerbahce Ulker Arena, Istanbul
Attendance: 1,264
Referees:
Manuel Mazzoni (ITA)
Georgios Poursanidis (GRE)
Milan Nedović (SLO)


2015–16 EuroLeague Women Champions
 
UMMC Ekaterinburg
Third title

Statistical leaders edit

Points edit

Rk Name Team Games Points PPG
1   Diana Taurasi   UMMC Ekaterinburg 19 397 20.9
2   Nneka Ogwumike   Dynamo Kursk 16 283 17.7
3   DeWanna Bonner   Nadezhda Orenburg 18 313 17.4
4   Lara Sanders   AGÜ Spor 13 205 15.8
  Sonja Petrović   ZVVZ USK Praha 13 205 15.8

Rebounds edit

Rk Name Team Games Rebounds RPG
1   Crystal Langhorne   Good Angels Košice 14 151 10.8
2   DeWanna Bonner   Nadezhda Orenburg 18 169 9.4
3   Lara Sanders   AGÜ Spor 13 118 9.1
4   Nneka Ogwumike   Dynamo Kursk 16 142 8.9
5   Kia Vaughn   ZVVZ USK Praha 18 159 8.8

Assists edit

Rk Name Team Games Assists APG
1   Laia Palau   ZVVZ USK Praha 18 128 7.1
2   Marjorie Carpréaux   Mithra Castors Braine 14 75 5.4
3   Silvia Domínguez   Perfumerías Avenida 14 73 5.2
4   Chelsea Gray   Spar CityLift Girona 10 52 5.2
5   Işıl Alben   Galatasaray OdeaBank 17 87 5.1

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "EuroLeague, EuroCup Women draw seedings announced". FIBA Europe. 3 July 2015.
  2. ^ "EuroLeague Women groups mostly determined even before draw". Archived from the original on 2015-07-02. Retrieved 2015-07-01.
  3. ^ "EuroLeague Women draw seedings changed, Perfumerias Avenida in qualifier against Brno". Archived from the original on 2015-07-06. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
  4. ^ BK Zabiny Brno withdraw from European competition

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