2018–19 EuroCup Basketball

The 2018–19 EuroCup Basketball season, also known as 7DAYS EuroCup for sponsorship reasons, is the 17th season of Euroleague Basketball's secondary level professional club basketball tournament. It is the 11th season since it was renamed from the ULEB Cup to the EuroCup, and the third season under the title sponsorship name of 7DAYS.

7DAYS EuroCup1
Season	2018–19
Games played	186
Teams	24
Regular season
Season MVP	Luke Sikma
Finals
Champions	Valencia Basket (4th title)
Runners-up	Alba Berlin
Semifinalists	UNICS MoraBanc Andorra
Finals MVP	Will Thomas
Awards
Coach of the Year	Aíto García Reneses
Rising Star	Martynas Echodas
Statistical leaders
Points Peyton Siva 15.2 Rebounds Jalen Reynolds 8.1 Assists Peyton Siva 7.9 Index Rating Vladimir Štimac 19.8
Records
Biggest home win	Crvena zvezda mts 103–67 Germani Brescia Leonessa (12 December 2018)
Biggest away win	Dolomiti Energia Trento 60–93 Zenit Saint Petersburg (17 October 2018)
Highest scoring	Alba Berlin 102–109 Cedevita (14 November 2018)
Winning streak	15 games Valencia Basket
Losing streak	10 games Fiat Torino
Highest attendance	12,945 Alba Berlin 95–92 Valencia Basket (12 April 2019)
Lowest attendance	602 Fraport Skyliners 74–91 Lokomotiv Kuban (8 January 2019)
← 2017–18 2019–20 → All statistics correct as of 16 April 2019. 1 Sponsored name, referring to 7DAYS.

Team allocation

A total of 24 teams participate in the 2018–19 EuroCup Basketball.^[1]

Distribution

The table below shows the default access list.^[1]

	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
Regular season (24 teams)	3 highest-placed teams from Adriatic 3 highest-placed teams from Russia 3 highest-placed teams from Spain 2 highest-placed teams from France 2 highest-placed teams from Germany 2 highest-placed teams from Italy 2 highest-placed teams from Turkey 1 highest-placed team from Greece 1 highest-placed team from Lithuania 1 highest-placed team from Poland 2 finalists from Basketball Champions League 2 wild cards
Top 16 (16 teams)		4 group winners from the regular season 4 group runners-up from the regular season 4 group third-placed teams from the regular season 4 group fourth-placed teams from the regular season
Playoffs (8 teams)		4 group winners from the Top 16 4 group runners-up from the Top 16

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:^[1][2][3]

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• WC: Wild card

Regular season
Crvena zvezda mts (2nd)[Note ABA]	LDLC ASVEL (WC)	Fiat Torino (WC)	Valencia Basket (5th)
Cedevita (3rd)[Note ABA]	Alba Berlin (2nd)	Rytas (2nd)	MoraBanc Andorra (6th)[Note ESP]
Mornar Bar (4th)[Note ABA]	Fraport Skyliners (8th)	Asseco Arka Gdynia (11th)	Unicaja (7th)
Partizan NIS (WC)[Note ABA]	ratiopharm Ulm (WC)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (3rd)	Tofaş (2nd)
Monaco (2nd)[Note FRA]	Dolomiti Energia Trento (2nd)	UNICS (4th)	Galatasaray (9th)
Limoges CSP (4th)	Germani Brescia Leonessa (4th)	Lokomotiv Kuban (5th)	Türk Telekom (WC)

Notes

1. ^
   ABA League (ABA): Crvena zvezda mts, Cedevita, Mornar Bar and Partizan NIS qualified through the ABA League.
2. ^
   Spain (ESP): MoraBanc Andorra is a club based in Andorra (which does not qualify for European competitions), but participate in European competitions through one of the berths for Spain (any coefficient points they earn count toward Spain).
3. ^
   France (FRA): Monaco are a club based in Monaco (which does not qualify for European competitions), but participated in European competitions through one of the berths for France (any coefficient points they earn count toward France).

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows.^[4][5]

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg	Third leg
Regular season	Round 1	5 July 2018	2–3 October 2018
	Round 2		9–10 October 2018
	Round 3		16–17 October 2018
	Round 4		23–24 October 2018
	Round 5		30–31 October 2018
	Round 6		6–7 November 2018
	Round 7		13–14 November 2018
	Round 8		20–21 November 2018
	Round 9		11–12 December 2018
	Round 10		18–19 December 2018
Top 16	Round 1		2–3 January 2019
	Round 2		8–9 January 2019
	Round 3		15–16 January 2019
	Round 4		22–23 January 2019
	Round 5		29–30 January 2019
	Round 6		5–6 February 2019
Playoffs	Quarterfinals		5 March 2019	8 March 2019	13 March 2019
	Semifinals		19 March 2019	22 March 2019	27 March 2019
	Finals		9 April 2019	12 April 2019	15 April 2019

Draw

The draw was held on 5 July 2018 at the Mediapro Auditorium in Barcelona.^[5]

The 24 teams were drawn into four groups of six, with the restriction that teams from the same country could not be drawn against each other. For this purpose, Adriatic League worked as only one country. For the draw, the teams were seeded into six pots, in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period and the lowest possible position that any club from that league can occupy in the draw is calculated by adding the results of the worst performing team from each league.^[5]

Pot 1 Team Pts Lokomotiv Kuban 138 Crvena zvezda mts 134 Unicaja 123 Valencia Basket 120	Pot 2 Team Pts Galatasaray 112 UNICS 109 Zenit Saint Petersburg 96 Cedevita 81	Pot 3 Team Pts Dolomiti Energia Trento 76† Fiat Torino 76† Germani Brescia Leonessa 76† Alba Berlin 75
Pot 4 Team Pts Tofaş 71† Türk Telekom 71† Rytas 59 ratiopharm Ulm 53	Pot 5 Team Pts Limoges CSP 51 MoraBanc Andorra 50† Fraport Skyliners 44 Partizan NIS 33†	Pot 6 Team Pts Mornar Bar 33† Asseco Arka Gdynia 31† LDLC ASVEL 28 Monaco 24†

Notes

^† Indicates teams with points applying the minimum for the league they play.

The fixtures were decided after the draw, using a computer draw not shown to public, with the following match sequence:^[5]

Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g., Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw.

Round Matches Round 1 6 v 3, 4 v 2, 5 v 1 Round 2 1 v 6, 2 v 5, 3 v 4 Round 3 6 v 4, 5 v 3, 1 v 2 Round 4 6 v 2, 3 v 1, 4 v 5 Round 5 5 v 6, 1 v 4, 2 v 3

Round Matches Round 6 1 v 5, 2 v 4, 3 v 6 Round 7 4 v 3, 5 v 2, 6 v 1 Round 8 2 v 1, 3 v 5, 4 v 6 Round 9 5 v 4, 1 v 3, 2 v 6 Round 10 3 v 2, 4 v 1, 6 v 5

There were scheduling restrictions: for example, teams from the same city in general are not scheduled to play at home on the same round (to avoid them playing at home on the same day or on consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control).^[5]

Regular season

Cedevita

Monaco

Limoges

ASVEL

Berlin

Skyliners

Ulm

Trento

Torino

Brescia

Rytas

Mornar

Gdynia

UNICS

Zenit

Lokomotiv

Belgrade

Valencia

Andorra

Unicaja

Türk Telekom

Galatasaray

Tofaş

Belgrade teams
Crvena zvezda
Partizan

Location of teams of the 2018–19 EuroCup regular season.
Red: Group A; Green: Group B; Blue: Group C; Yellow: Group D.

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners, runners-up, third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams advanced to the Top 16, while the fifth-placed teams and sixth-placed teams were eliminated. The rounds were 2–3 October, 9–10 October, 16–17 October, 23–24 October, 30–31 October, 6–7 November, 13–14 November, 20–21 November, 11–12 December, and 18–19 December 2018.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		MON	AND	CZV	ULM	BRE	GAL
1	Monaco	10	7	3	796	757	+39	Advance to Top 16		—	81–73	63–66	84–81	80–86	76–71
2	MoraBanc Andorra	10	6	4	852	834	+18			87–80	—	91–80	103–95	110–91	95–87
3	Crvena zvezda mts	10	6	4	825	768	+57			75–91	85–79	—	88–73	103–67	87–57
4	ratiopharm Ulm	10	5	5	824	827	−3			65–75	88–80	95–80	—	83–82	103–92
5	Germani Brescia Leonessa	10	3	7	780	842	−62			68–80	73–79	69–61	80–97	—	88–65
6	Galatasaray	10	3	7	761	810	−49			85–86	84–73	83–100	77–69	84–76	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		LOK	ALB	CED	LIM	TOF	ARK
1	Lokomotiv Kuban	10	9	1	847	757	+90	Advance to Top 16		—	75–83	80–76	82–64	95–72	96–72
2	Alba Berlin	10	7	3	883	835	+48			82–92	—	102–109	84–76	107–91	82–68
3	Cedevita	10	5	5	853	831	+22			81–85	75–73	—	91–71	92–96	94–87
4	Limoges CSP	10	4	6	818	846	−28			64–72	93–102	82–68	—	89–81	103–87
5	Tofaş	10	4	6	891	908	−17			99–105	101–106	94–89	92–98	—	96–79
6	Asseco Arka Gdynia	10	1	9	755	870	−115			73–80	64–76	61–78	87–78	77–87	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		VBC	ASV	PAR	ZEN	TTA	TRE
1	Valencia Basket	10	8	2	846	759	+87	Advance to Top 16		—	84–62	79–71	97–89	101–83	87–66
2	LDLC ASVEL	10	7	3	781	732	+49			73–69	—	75–78	89–68	84–63	75–61
3	Partizan NIS	10	4	6	756	771	−15			61–69	78–89	—	89–82	87–72	76–71
4	Zenit Saint Petersburg	10	4	6	840	823	+17			104–93	81–84	75–71	—	91–80	99–102
5	Türk Telekom	10	4	6	766	819	−53			67–72	78–83	77–72	81–75	—	84–77
6	Dolomiti Energia Trento	10	3	7	745	830	−85			83–95	79–77	82–73	60–93	77–81	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		UNK	UNI	FSK	RYT	MOR	TOR
1	UNICS	10	9	1	846	750	+96	Advance to Top 16		—	87–84	83–80	86–73	90–73	92–78
2	Unicaja	10	8	2	897	788	+109			82–80	—	91–64	95–76	111–76	89–68
3	Fraport Skyliners	10	6	4	767	762	+5			65–72	78–84	—	65–63	98–75	88–85
4	Rytas	10	5	5	769	776	−7			81–87	80–72	61–70	—	71–67	86–79
5	Mornar Bar	10	2	8	772	905	−133			74–97	85–96	83–87	69–92	—	86–83
6	Fiat Torino	10	0	10	800	870	−70			72–82	104–105	75–85	96–101	80–84	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Top 16

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the Playoffs, while the third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams were eliminated. The rounds were 2–3 January, 8–9 January, 15–16 January, 22–23 January, 29–30 January, and 5–6 February 2019.

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		ALB	RYT	MON	PAR
1	Alba Berlin	6	5	1	487	451	+36	Advance to quarterfinals		—	87–85	83–74	97–74
2	Rytas	6	3	3	482	460	+22			86–94	—	90–68	80–74
3	Monaco	6	2	4	418	457	−39			61–75	75–70	—	68–71
4	Partizan NIS	6	2	4	442	461	−19			78–66	77–78	68–72	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		ASV	LOK	ULM	FSK
1	LDLC ASVEL	6	5	1	445	411	+34	Advance to quarterfinals		—	72–61	93–89	75–52
2	Lokomotiv Kuban	6	4	2	474	423	+51			65–67	—	88–76	84–58
3	ratiopharm Ulm	6	3	3	485	464	+21			86–68	81–84	—	70–63
4	Fraport Skyliners	6	0	6	368	474	−106			58–70	69–92	68–83	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		VBC	UNI	CZV	LIM
1	Valencia Basket	6	6	0	501	458	+43	Advance to quarterfinals		—	85–74	92–76	91–84
2	Unicaja	6	3	3	468	485	−17			69–72	—	79–74	79–72
3	Crvena zvezda mts	6	2	4	490	485	+5			81–82	105–89	—	83–71
4	Limoges CSP	6	1	5	450	481	−31			74–79	77–78	72–71	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		UNK	AND	ZEN	CED
1	UNICS	6	5	1	507	426	+81	Advance to quarterfinals		—	72–53	68–67	105–70
2	MoraBanc Andorra	6	5	1	479	459	+20			86–80	—	86–74	87–81
3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	2	4	456	475	−19			67–82	71–80	—	98–84
4	Cedevita	6	0	6	474	556	−82			83–100	81–87	75–79	—

Source: EuroCup Basketball
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Playoffs

Main article: 2018–19 EuroCup Basketball Playoffs

In the playoffs, teams play against each other must win two games to win the series. Thus, if one team wins two games before all three games have been played, the game that remains is omitted. The team that finished in the higher Top 16 place will play the first and the third (if it is necessary) legs of the series at home. The playoffs involves the eight teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the four groups in the Top 16.

Bracket

	Quarterfinals						Semifinals						Finals
	Valencia Basket		75	71
	Rytas		64	56
							Valencia Basket		69	79
							UNICS		64	73
	UNICS	86	59	69
	Lokomotiv Kuban	66	68	65
													Valencia Basket	89	92	89
													Alba Berlin	75	95	63
	Alba Berlin	90	101	79
	Unicaja	91	81	75
							Alba Berlin		102	87
							MoraBanc Andorra		97	81
	LDLC ASVEL	79	79	80
	MoraBanc Andorra	75	98	82

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Alba Berlin	2–1	Unicaja	90–91	101–81	79–75
LDLC ASVEL	1–2	MoraBanc Andorra	79–75	79–98	80–82
Valencia Basket	2–0	Rytas	75–64	71–56
UNICS	2–1	Lokomotiv Kuban	86–66	59–68	69–65

Semifinals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Alba Berlin	2–0	MoraBanc Andorra	102–97	87–81
Valencia Basket	2–0	UNICS	69–64	79–73

Finals

Main article: 2019 EuroCup Finals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Valencia Basket	2–1	Alba Berlin	89–75	92–95	89–63

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Alba Berlin	96,555	12,945	6,322	8,046	+3.7%†
2	Valencia Basket	81,454	8,014	5,519	6,788	+0.5%1
3	Partizan NIS	48,183	6,464	5,250	6,023	+219.4%†
4	Unicaja	49,195	9,650	2,795	5,466	−24.8%1
5	LDLC ASVEL	52,829	5,560	4,732	5,283	−1.0%†
6	Rytas	46,188	8,421	3,246	5,132	−15.4%†
7	Crvena zvezda mts	40,084	5,898	2,896	5,011	−20.2%1
8	Limoges CSP	31,775	4,527	3,510	3,972	−1.5%†
9	Türk Telekom	18,485	6,453	1,987	3,697	n/a†
10	UNICS	40,456	6,193	2,315	3,678	−0.5%†
11	ratiopharm Ulm	26,271	4,142	2,954	3,284	+3.0%†
12	Zenit Saint Petersburg	24,940	4,617	1,750	3,118	−22.6%†
13	Lokomotiv Kuban	27,193	4,262	1,853	3,021	−29.7%†
14	MoraBanc Andorra	29,775	4,121	1,874	2,878	−8.0%†
15	Germani Brescia Leonessa	12,805	4,166	1,880	2,561	n/a†
16	Fiat Torino	12,205	3,430	1,558	2,441	−7.0%†
17	Tofaş	11,424	2,465	2,061	2,285	−27.8%†
18	Galatasaray	9,708	2,740	1,102	1,942	+57.5%1
19	Dolomiti Energia Trento	8,787	1,969	1,620	1,757	+6.1%†
20	Monaco	13,841	2,008	1,525	1,730	n/a†
21	Asseco Arka Gdynia	7,708	2,049	1,287	1,542	n/a†
22	Mornar Bar	7,264	1,859	1,030	1,453	n/a†
23	Cedevita	11,399	2,155	1,060	1,425	+21.8%†
24	Fraport Skyliners	8,721	2,003	602	1,090	n/a†
	League total	717,245	12,945	602	3,856	+3.4%†

Source: EuroCup
Notes:
1: 2017–18 season average applied to EuroLeague games

Awards

7DAYS EuroCup MVP

Player	Team	Ref.
Luke Sikma	Alba Berlin	[6]

7DAYS EuroCup Finals MVP

Player	Team	Ref.
Will Thomas	Valencia Basket	[7]

All–7DAYS EuroCup Teams

All–7DAYS EuroCup First Team		All–7DAYS EuroCup Second Team		Ref
Player	Team	Player	Team
Andrew Albicy	MoraBanc Andorra	Pierriá Henry	UNICS	[8][9]
Errick McCollum	UNICS	Sam Van Rossom	Valencia Basket
Rokas Giedraitis	Alba Berlin	Dylan Ennis	MoraBanc Andorra
Luke Sikma	Alba Berlin	Mathias Lessort	Unicaja
Bojan Dubljević	Valencia Basket	Miro Bilan	LDLC ASVEL

Coach of the Year

Player	Team	Ref.
Aíto García Reneses	Alba Berlin	[10]

Rising Star

Player	Team	Ref.
Martynas Echodas	Rytas	[11]

Regular Season MVP

Player	Team	Ref.
Pierriá Henry	UNICS	[12]

Top 16 MVP

Player	Team	Ref.
Bojan Dubljević	Valencia Basket	[13]

Quarterfinals MVP

Player	Team	Ref.
Peyton Siva	Alba Berlin	[14]

Semifinals MVP

Player	Team	Ref.
Peyton Siva	Alba Berlin	[15]

MVP of the Round

Regular Season

Round	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Maurice Ndour	UNICS	41	[16]
2	Kenny Kadji	Tofaş	34	[17]
3	Giorgi Shermadini	Unicaja	34	[18]
	Raymar Morgan	UNICS
4	Isaiah Miles	Limoges CSP	31	[19]
5	Luke Sikma	Alba Berlin	31	[20]
6	Erik Murphy	Fraport Skyliners	35	[21]
7	Sammy Mejía	Tofaş	30	[22]
	Landing Sané	Mornar Bar
8	Justin Cobbs	Cedevita	36	[23]
9	Rok Stipčević	Rytas	41	[24]
10	Patrick Miller	ratiopharm Ulm	33	[25]

Top 16

Round	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Andrew Albicy	MoraBanc Andorra	37	[26]
2	Jamel McLean	Lokomotiv Kuban	31	[27]
3	Luke Sikma (2)	Alba Berlin	33	[28]
4	Bojan Dubljević	Valencia Basket	29	[29]
5	Artsiom Parakhouski	Rytas	30	[30]
6	Dragan Apić	Lokomotiv Kuban	30	[31]

Quarterfinals

Game	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Errick McCollum	UNICS	37	[32]
2	Dylan Ennis	MoraBanc Andorra	23	[33]
	Rokas Giedraitis	Alba Berlin
	Dmitry Kulagin	Lokomotiv Kuban
3	Peyton Siva	Alba Berlin	16	[34]

Semifinals

Game	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Peyton Siva (2)	Alba Berlin	32	[35]
2	Sam Van Rossom	Valencia Basket	19	[36]

Finals

Game	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Will Thomas	Valencia Basket	25	[37]
2	Luke Sikma (3)	Alba Berlin	20	[38]
3	Bojan Dubljević (2)	Valencia Basket	27	[39]

See also

• 2018–19 EuroLeague
• 2018–19 Basketball Champions League
• 2018–19 FIBA Europe Cup