The 2017–18 Serie A2 season, known for sponsorship reasons as the Serie A2 Old Wild West, is the 44th season of the Italian basketball second league Serie A2 Basket. The season started on September 29, 2017, and will end in June 2018 with the last game of the promotion playoffs finals.
Rules
The season is composed of 32 teams with a regional subdivision in two equal groups of sixteen, East and West. Each team plays twice each team in its subgroup, the first ranked team of each group then plays the eighth ranked team of the other group (e.g. East No. 1 against West No. 8), then the second best against the seventh, and so on, to form a promotion playoffs (for one place) of sixteen teams.
Teams By region Number of teams Region Team(s)6Andrea Costa Imola BasketAssigeco PiacenzaBondi FerraraConsultinvest BolognaOraSì RavennaUnieuro Forlì5Agribertocchi OrzinuoviBergamo BasketDinamica Generale Mantova FCL Contract Legnano Remer Treviglio4Benacquista Assicurazioni LatinaLeonis RomaNPC RietiVirtus Roma3Bertram TortonaEurotrend BiellaNovipiù Casale Monferrato2Cuore Napoli BasketGivova ScafatiAlma Pallacanestro TriesteG.S.A. UdineTermoforgia JesiXL Extralight MontegranaroLighthouse TrapaniMoncada AgrigentoDe' Longhi TrevisoTezenis Verona1Roseto SharksMetextra Reggio CalabriaPasta Cellino CagliariSoundreef Siena
Venues
East TeamArenaCapacityAgribertocchi OrzinuoviOrzinuoviCentro San Filippo 2,400Alma TriesteTriestePalaTrieste 6,943Andrea Costa ImolaImolaPalaRuggi 2,000Assigeco PiacenzaPiacenzaPalaBanca 4,500Bergamo BasketBergamoPalaNorda 2,250Bondi FerraraFerraraPala Hilton Pharma 3,504Consultinvest BolognaBolognaLand Rover Arena 5,721De' Longhi TrevisoTrevisoPalaVerde 5,134Dinamica MantovaMantovaPalaBam 5,000G.S.A. UdineUdinePalaCarnera 3,850OraSì RavennaRavennaPalaDeAndré 3,500Roseto SharksRosetoPalaMaggetti 5,000Termoforgia JesiJesiUBI BPA Sport Center 3,500Tezenis VeronaVeronaPalaOlimpia 5,350Unieuro ForlìForlì 6,511XL MontegranaroMontegranaroPalaSavelli 3,800
West TeamHome cityArenaCapacityBenacquista LatinaLatinaPalaBianchini 2,500Bertram TortonaTortonaPalaOltrepò 1,500Cuore Basket NapoliNaplesPalaBarbuto 5,500Eurotrend BiellaBiellaBiellaForum 5,707LegnanoKnights Palace 1,650Givova ScafatiScafatiPalaMagnano 3,700Rome 3,500Lighthouse TrapaniTrapaniPalaillio 4,575PalaCalafiore 8,500Moncada AgrigentoAgrigentoPalaMoncada3,200PalaFerraris 3,508NPC RietiRietiPalaSojourner 3,550Pasta Cellino CagliariCagliariPalaPirastu 2,266Remer TreviglioTreviglioPalaFacchetti 2,880Soundreef SienaSiena 7,050Virtus RomaRomePalazzetto dello Sport 3,500
Regular season
East Group league table
West Group league table
Coppa Italia At the half of the league, the four first teams of each group in the table played the LNP Cup.
Bracket
Source:
Playout The league play-out are played between the 14th and 15th placed teams of each group in two elimination rounds. The series will be played in a best-of-three format: the first, the second and the eventual fifth game will be played at home of the team that got the better ranking at the end of the regular season, the third and the eventual fourth will be played at home the lower ranked team.
Playoffs The league's playoffs are played between the first and the eighth of each group in four rounds: eightfinals, quarterfinals, semifinals and final. All series are played in a best-of-five format: the first, the second and the eventual fifth match will be played at home of the best-placed team, the second, the third and the fourth, at the end of the regular season.
References
External links Official website