The 2017–18 EuroCup Basketball, also known as 7DAYS EuroCup for sponsorship reasons, season was the 16th season of Euroleague Basketball's secondary level professional club basketball tournament. It will be the tenth season since it was renamed from the ULEB Cup to the EuroCup, and the second season under the title sponsorship name of 7DAYS.
The 2018 EuroCup Finals were played between Darüşşafaka and Lokomotiv Kuban, and won by Darüşşafaka, which was their first EuroCup title. As the winners of the 2017–18 EuroCup Basketball, Darüşşafaka qualified for the European top-tier level 2018–19 EuroLeague season.
Format changes For the 2017–18 season, the EuroCup went back to the initial format for the 2016–17 season which includes 24 teams playing in four regular season groups, with 16 teams advancing to the Top 16 phase, featuring four groups of four teams each. Eight teams will qualify for best-of-three quarterfinals, which will be followed by best-of-three semifinals and best-of-three finals.
Team allocation A total of 24 teams from 12 countries participated in the 2017–18 EuroCup Basketball.
Distribution The table below shows the default access list. Teams entering in this roundTeams advancing from previous roundRegular 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 Israel 1 highest-placed team from Lithuania 1 highest-placed team from Poland 3 wild cardsTop 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 seasonPlayoffs(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: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after Playoffs WC: Wild card
Regular season Cedevita Herbalife Gran Canaria ratiopharm Ulm Darüşşafaka Partizan NIS MoraBanc Andorra Bayern Munich Galatasaray Odeabank Budućnost VOLI RETAbet Bilbao Basket Alba Berlin Tofaş Zenit Saint Petersburg Levallois Metropolitans Dolomiti Energia Trento Lietkabelis Lokomotiv Kuban ASVEL Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia Lietuvos rytas UNICS Limoges CSP Fiat Torino Hapoel Jerusalem Notes
Round and draw dates The schedule of the competition is as follows. PhaseRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legThird legRegular seasonRound 16 July 201710–11 October 2017Round 217–18 October 2017Round 324–25 October 2017Round 431 October–1 November 2017Round 57–8 November 2017Round 614–15 November 2017Round 75–6 December 2017Round 812–13 December 2017Round 919–20 December 2017Round 1026–27 December 2017Top 16Round 12–3 January 2018Round 29–10 January 2018Round 316–17 January 2018Round 424 January 2018Round 530–31 January 2018Round 66–7 February 2018PlayoffsQuarterfinals6 March 20189 March 201814 March 2018Semifinals20 March 201823 March 201828 March 2018Finals10 April 201813 April 201816 April 2018
Draw The draw was held on 6 July 2017, 13:30 CEST, at the Mediapro Auditorium in Barcelona. 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 could occupy in the draw was calculated by adding the results of the worst performing team from each league. +Pot 1Team Lokomotiv Kuban133 Herbalife Gran Canaria125 Galatasaray Odeabank120 UNICS113+Pot 2Team Bayern Munich96 Zenit Saint Petersburg90 Darüşşafaka90 Alba Berlin86+Pot 3Team Cedevita85 Tofaş80 Hapoel Jerusalem71 Lietuvos rytas65+Pot 4Team Dolomiti Energia Trento63 Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia63 Fiat Torino63 RETAbet Bilbao Basket60+Pot 5Team MoraBanc Andorra60 Lietkabelis54 Limoges CSP48 ratiopharm Ulm43+Pot 6Team Budućnost VOLI42 Levallois Metropolitans35 Partizan NIS35 ASVEL25
Notes
Indicates teams with points applying the minimum for the league they play.
Regular season
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 on 10–11 October, 17–18 October, 24–25 October, 31 October–1 November, 7–8 November, 14–15 November, 5–6 December, 12–13 December, 19–20 December and 26–27 December 2017.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Top 16 In each group, teams play 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 on 2–3 January, 9–10 January, 16–17 January, 23–24 January, 30–31 January and 6–7 February 2018.
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Playoffs
In the playoffs, teams played 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
Attendances
Awards 7DAYS EuroCup MVP PlayerTeam Scottie Wilbekin Darüşşafaka
7DAYS EuroCup Finals MVP PlayerTeam Scottie Wilbekin Darüşşafaka
All–7DAYS EuroCup Teams All–7DAYS EuroCup First Team All–7DAYS EuroCup Second Team Ref Player Team Player Team Devin Booker Bayern Munich Ondřej Balvín Herbalife Gran Canaria Ryan Broekhoff Lokomotiv Kuban Nikola Ivanović Budućnost VOLI Quino Colom UNICS JaJuan Johnson Darüşşafaka Amedeo Della Valle Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia Dmitry Kulagin Lokomotiv Kuban Scottie Wilbekin Darüşşafaka Kyle Kuric Zenit Saint Petersburg
Coach of the Year PlayerTeam Saša Obradović Lokomotiv Kuban
Rising Star PlayerTeam Džanan Musa Cedevita
Regular Season MVP PlayerTeam Scottie Wilbekin Darüşşafaka
Top 16 MVP PlayerTeam Kyle Kuric Zenit Saint Petersburg
Quarterfinals MVP PlayerTeam Dmitry Kulagin Lokomotiv Kuban
Semifinals MVP PlayerTeam Scottie Wilbekin Darüşşafaka
MVP of the Round Regular Season RoundPlayerTeam 1 Luke Sikma Alba Berlin 31 2 Rokas Giedraitis Lietuvos rytas 31 Jalen Reynolds Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia 3 Nigel Williams-Goss Partizan NIS 34 4 Peyton Siva Alba Berlin 31 Trevor Lacey Lokomotiv Kuban 5 Adas Juškevičius Lietkabelis 38 6 Chris Kramer Lietuvos rytas 38 7 John Roberson ASVEL 30 8 Danilo Barthel Bayern Munich 33 9 Boris Diaw Levallois Metropolitans 29 10 John Roberson (2) ASVEL 44
Top 16 RoundPlayerTeam 1 Dustin Hogue Dolomiti Energia Trento 40 2 Kyle Kuric Zenit Saint Petersburg 40 3 Devin Booker Bayern Munich 38 4 Martynas Echodas Lietuvos rytas 29 5 Danilo Barthel (2) Bayern Munich 42 6 Peyton Siva (2) Alba Berlin 26
Quarterfinals GamePlayerTeam 1 Jalen Reynolds (2) Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia 29 2 Dmitry Kulagin Lokomotiv Kuban 34 3 Chris Wright Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia 34
Semifinals GamePlayerTeam 1 Michael Eric Darüşşafaka 30 2 Scottie Wilbekin Darüşşafaka 44
Finals GamePlayerTeam 1 Will Cummings Darüşşafaka 25
See also 2017–18 EuroLeague 2017–18 Basketball Champions League 2017–18 FIBA Europe Cup
References
External links Official website