The 2015–16 Triobet Baltic Basketball League was the 12th season of the Baltic Basketball League and the first under the title sponsorship of Triobet.
Overview This season’s competition included 6 teams from Estonia, 5 teams from Latvia and Lithuania and one team from Kazakhstan, which played all its games away. For the regular season the teams were divided into two groups of seven teams and competed in a round-robin competition system, with team facing each of their opponents twice. The teams qualified for the eighth-finals based on their ranking after the regular season. Out of the five teams who participated in FIBA Europe Cup competition – Ventspils, Juventus, Šiauliai, TÜ/Rock and Pieno žvaigždės – the latter three didn't qualify for the FIBA Europe Cup playoffs and thus begin their journey at the start of the BBL play-offs, seeded respectively first, second and third based on last season’s results. All play-off games were played in home-and-away series.
Tartu Ülikool/Rock became the first Estonian team to reach the Baltic League finals. In the Finals they lost with an aggregate score of 157–176 to Lithuanian team Šiauliai who won their third title in a row. Third place belonged to Lithuanian side Lietkabelis who beat Latvian team Valmiera/ORDO with aggregate score of 160–154.
Teams + Key to colors Champion Runner-up Third place Fourth place Quarterfinalist Top 16 Regular season
Country (League) Teams Teams (ranking in 2014–15 national championship) Estonia (KML) 6 TÜ/Rock (1) AVIS Rapla (3) Rakvere Tarvas (4) Pärnu Sadam (5) TTÜ (7) TLÜ/Kalev (8) Latvia (LBL) 5 Jēkabpils (3) Liepāja/Triobet (4) Jūrmala/Fēnikss (5) Barons/LDz (6) Valmiera/ORDO (7) Lithuania (LKL) 5 Pieno žvaigždės (4) Šiauliai (7) Lietkabelis (8) Vytautas (9) Nevėžis (10) Kazakhstan (KBC) 1 Barsy Atyrau (-)
Team information Group Team City, Country Arena Head coach Group A AVIS Rapla Rapla, Estonia Sadolin Sports Hall Aivar Kuusmaa Barons/LDz Riga, Latvia Mārupe Arena Agris Galvanovskis Lietkabelis Panevėžys, Lithuania Cido Arena Gintaras Kadžiulis Nevėžis Kėdainiai, Lithuania Kėdainiai Arena Ramūnas Cvirka Pärnu Sadam Pärnu, Estonia Pärnu Sports Hall Mait Käbin TLÜ/Kalev Tallinn, Estonia Kalev Sports Hall Kalle Klandorf Valmiera/ORDO Valmiera, Latvia Vidzeme Olympic Center Ainars Zvirgzdiņš Group B Barsy Atyrau Atyrau, Kazakhstan The team will play away Oleg Kiselev Jēkabpils Jēkabpils, Latvia Jēkabpils Sporta nams Igors Miglinieks Jūrmala/Fēnikss Jūrmala, Latvia Taurenītis Arnis Vecvagars Liepāja/Triobet Liepāja, Latvia Liepāja Olympic Center Uvis Helmanis Rakvere Tarvas Rakvere, Estonia Rakvere Sports Hall Andres Sõber TTÜ Tallinn, Estonia TTÜ Sports Hall Rait Käbin Vytautas Prienai/Birštonas, Lithuania Prienai Arena Virginijus Šeškus Playoffs Pieno žvaigždės Pasvalys, Lithuania Pieno žvaigždės Arena Mantas Šernius Šiauliai Šiauliai, Lithuania Šiauliai Arena Gediminas Petrauskas TÜ/Rock Tartu, Estonia University of Tartu Sports Hall Gert Kullamäe
Regular season
The Regular season ran from October 13, 2015 to January 27, 2016.
Group A {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" ! width=20| !! width=210|Team !! width=30| !! width=30| !! width=30| !! width=30|!! width=30|!!width=35|!! width=30| !! width=120| Qualification |- bgcolor=#CCFFCC |1.||align="left"| Lietkabelis || 12 || 10 || 2 || 1026 || 888 || +138 || 22 | rowspan=7 align="center"|Playoffs |- bgcolor=#CCFFCC |2.||align="left"| Valmiera/ORDO || 12 || 9 || 3 || 941 || 865 || +76 || 21 |- bgcolor=#CCFFCC |3.||align="left"| AVIS Rapla|| 12 || 7 || 5 || 838 || 897 || −59 || 19 |- bgcolor=#CCFFCC |4.||align="left"| TLÜ/Kalev || 12 || 6 || 6 || 895 || 916 || −21 || 18 |- bgcolor=#CCFFCC |5.||align="left"| Nevėžis || 12 || 4 || 8 || 889 || 909 || −20 || 16 |- bgcolor=#CCFFCC |6.||align="left"| Barons/LDz || 12 || 4 || 8 || 910 || 941 || −31 || 16 |- bgcolor=#CCFFCC |7.||align="left"| Pärnu Sadam || 12 || 2 || 10 || 899 || 982 || −83 || 14
Group B {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" ! width=20| !! width=210|Team !! width=30| !! width=30| !! width=30| !! width=30|!! width=30|!!width=35|!! width=30| !! width=120| Qualification |- bgcolor=#CCFFCC |1.||align="left"| Vytautas || 12 || 11 || 1 || 1005 || 894 || +111 || 23 | rowspan=6 align="center"|Playoffs |- bgcolor=#CCFFCC |2.||align="left"| Liepāja/Triobet || 12 || 8 || 4 || 939 || 909 || +30 || 20 |- bgcolor=#CCFFCC |3.||align="left"| Jēkabpils || 12 || 7 || 5 || 921 || 914 || +7 || 19 |- bgcolor=#CCFFCC |4.||align="left"| Rakvere Tarvas || 12 || 6 || 6 || 914 || 891 || +23 || 18 |- bgcolor=#CCFFCC |5.||align="left"| Jūrmala/Fēnikss || 12 || 5 || 7 || 884 || 870 || +14 || 17 |- bgcolor=#CCFFCC |6.||align="left"| Barsy Atyrau || 12 || 3 || 9 || 900 || 970 || −70 || 15 |- bgcolor=#FFCCCC |7.||align="left"| TTÜ || 12 || 2 || 10 || 845 || 960 || −115 || 14 || align"center"|Eliminated
Playoffs Bracket
Player statistics Players qualify to this category by having at least 50% games played.
Points RankPlayerTeamGamesPointsAverage1 Andrew Warren Pärnu Sadam7179 25.572 Johnny Berhanemeskel TLÜ/Kalev 14 264 18.863 Reinis Strupovičs Rakvere Tarvas 10 175 17.504 Michael Burwell Barsy Atyrau 13 219 16.855 Kris Richard Liepāja/Triobet 15 252 16.80
Assists RankPlayerTeamGamesAssistsAverage1 Rait-Riivo Laane TTÜ 12 79 6.582 Rinalds Sirsniņš Jēkabpils 13 75 5.773 Miljan Pavković Lietkabelis 13 75 5.624 Edgars Jeromanovs Jūrmala/Fēnikss 14 74 5.295 Derrick Low Pieno žvaigždės 4 21 5.25
Rebounds RankPlayerTeamGamesReboundsAverage1 Stephen Zack Liepāja/Triobet 12 132 11.002 Ronaldas Rutkauskas Jēkabpils 13 121 9.313 Carl Hipp Barons/LDz 11 98 8.914 William Artino AVIS Rapla 12 106 8.835 David Haughton Rakvere Tarvas 14 122 8.71
Efficiency RankNameTeamGamesEfficiencyAverage1 Giedrius Staniulis Pieno žvaigždės 3 65 21.672 Andrew Warren Pärnu Sadam7147 21.003 Paulius Petrilevičius Pärnu Sadam 12 231 19.254 Vytautas Šulskis Vytautas 13 250 19.235 Ronaldas Rutkauskas Jēkabpils 13 248 19.08
Awards MVP of the Month {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" ! align="center"|Month ! align="center" width=200|Player ! align="center" width=200|Team ! align="center" width=|Ref. |- |October 2015||align="left"| Andrew Warren ||align="left"| Pärnu Sadam || |- |November 2015||align="left"| Paulius Petrilevicius ||align="left"| Pärnu Sadam || |- |December 2015||align="left"| Laimonas Kisielius ||align="left"| Vytautas || |- |January 2016||align="left"| Ronaldas Rutkauskas ||align="left"| Jēkabpils ||
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