2011–12 Eurocup Basketball

^[1]32 teams participated in the Eurocup Regular Season:

• A total of 10 teams from nine countries qualified directly to the 32-team regular season through their results in domestic competitions, or through a wild card.
• Another 8 teams earned their place at the group stage by winning a qualifying round. On July 7, a draw for the Eurocup Qualifying Round, which featured 16 teams from 13 countries, was held in Barcelona. The 8 winners from those two-game, head-to-head qualifying games advanced to the Eurocup Regular Season.^[2]
• The remaining 14 teams were filled with the losers of the Euroleague qualifying rounds that was played from 29 September - 2 October.^[3]

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: EuroCup title holders; FEC: FBIA EuroChallenge title holders):

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.: League position after eventual Playoffs
• RW: Regular season winners
• CW: Cup winners
• EL: EuroLeague
  • EL QR: EuroLeague qualifying round losers

Regular season
Cholet (EL QR)	Khimki (EL QR)	Cibona (EL QR)	PGE Turów (EL QR)
Gravelines (EL QR)	Lokomotiv Kuban (4th)	Donetsk (EL QR)	Valencia (5th)
ASVEL (EL QR)	PAOK (EL QR)	ČEZ Nymburk (EL QR)	Hapoel Jerusalem (3rd)
Alba Berlin (EL QR)	Aris (4th)	VEF Rīga (EL QR)	Benetton Bwin (4th)
Fraport Skyliners (3rd)	Lietuvos rytas (EL QR)	Budućnost VOLI (EL QR)	GasTerra Flames (1st)
Bayern Munich (WC)	Rūdupis (3rd)	Banvit (EL QR)	KrkaFEC (1st)
Qualifying round
Élan Chalon (5th)	Beşiktaş Milangaz (5th)	Azovmash (5th)	Cedevita (2nd)
Le Mans (8th)	Pınar Karşıyaka (6th)	Gran Canaria 2014 (6th)	Artland Dragons (4th)
Dexia Mons-Hainaut (3rd)	Spartak Saint Petersburg (7th)	Norrköping Dolphins (2nd)	ETHA Engomis (1st)
Telenet Oostende (4th)	Ventspils (2nd)	Prostějov (2nd)	Lukoil Academic (1st)

The eight winners of the qualifying round joined the regular season. The eight losers transferred to the EuroChallenge regular season.^[4]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Azovmash	153–140	Ventspils	74–75	79–65
Gran Canaria 2014	153–121	Artland Dragons	61–56	92–65
Dexia Mons-Hainaut	144–141	Beşiktaş Milangaz	70–78	74–63
Cedevita	157–147	Élan Chalon	73–78	84–69
Le Mans Sarthe	160–151	Pınar Karşıyaka	80–73	80–78
Telenet Oostende	158–129	Norrköping Dolphins	88–62	70–67
Spartak Saint Petersburg	143–123	ETHA Engomis	60–59	83–64
Prostějov	142–157	Lukoil Academic	65–70	77–87

The Regular Season ran from November 15, 2011, to December 20, 2011.

If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers were 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 match.

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Gravelines	6	5	1	517	430	+87
2.	Donetsk	6	5	1	463	443	+20
3.	Hapoel Jerusalem	6	2	4	463	493	−30
4.	Cibona	6	0	6	456	533	−77

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Khimki	6	6	0	480	398	+82
2.	VEF Rīga	6	3	3	436	444	−8
3.	Cholet Basket	6	2	4	389	428	−39
4.	P.A.O.K.	6	1	5	417	452	−35

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Nymburk	6	5	1	498	424	+74
2.	Aris	6	4	2	431	397	+34
3.	Rūdupis	6	3	3	487	485	+2
4.	GasTerra Flames	6	0	6	391	501	−110

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ASVEL	6	4	2	459	426	+33
2.	Valencia Basket	6	4	2	487	447	+40
3.	Telenet Oostende	6	2	4	415	454	−39
4.	Lukoil Academic	6	2	4	400	434	−34

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Banvit	6	4	2	421	397	+24
2.	Lokomotiv-Kuban	6	4	2	431	399	+32
3.	Gran Canaria	6	4	2	416	405	+11
4.	Skyliners Frankfurt	6	0	6	362	429	−67

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Lietuvos rytas	6	6	0	478	370	+108
2.	Krka	6	4	2	434	421	+13
3.	Azovmash	6	1	5	404	453	−49
4.	Le Mans	6	1	5	392	464	−72

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Spartak Saint Petersburg	6	6	0	477	401	+76
2.	Benetton Treviso	6	3	3	478	476	+2
3.	Bayern Munich	6	2	4	404	436	−32
4.	Cedevita	6	1	5	413	459	−46

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Alba Berlin	6	5	1	485	421	+64
2.	Budućnost	6	3	3	416	425	−9
3.	Dexia Mons-Hainaut	6	2	4	445	463	−18
4.	Turów Zgorzelec	6	2	4	446	483	−37

The quarterfinals were two-legged ties determined on aggregate score. The first legs were played on March 20. The return legs were played on March 27. The group winners in each tie, listed as Team 1, hosted the second leg.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Valencia	156–138	Budućnost VOLI	71–75	85–63
Donetsk	145–154	Lietuvos rytas	65–76	80–78
Spartak St. Petersburg	154–135	ČEZ Nymburk	68–64	86–71
Lokomotiv Kuban	153–158	Khimki	72–81	81–77

Euroleague Basketball Company announced that the 2011–12 Eurocup season would culminate with the Eurocup Finals in Khimki, Russia, on April 14 and 15.^[5]

	Semifinals				Final
	14 April
	Valencia	80
					15 April
	Lietuvos rytas	70
					Valencia	68
	14 April
					Khimki	77
	Spartak St. Petersburg	73
	Khimki	77
					Third place game
					15 April
					Lietuvos rytas	71
					Spartak St. Petersburg	62

Week	Player	Team	PIR
1	Tony Parker	ASVEL Basket	40
2	J. R. Giddens	P.A.O.K.	32
3	Nik Caner-Medley	Valencia Basket	29
4	Nikola Vučević	Budućnost	36
5	Jeremiah Massey	PBC Lokomotiv-Kuban	28
6	Fabien Causeur	Cholet Basket	33

Week	Player	Team	PIR
1	Patrick Beverley	Spartak Saint Petersburg	27
2	Loukas Mavrokefalidis	Spartak Saint Petersburg	29
3	Nando de Colo	Valencia Basket	40
4	Hilton Armstrong	ASVEL Basket	26
5	DaShaun Wood	Alba Berlin	37
6	Jeremiah Massey	PBC Lokomotiv-Kuban	37

Game	Player	Team	PIR
1	Bojan Dubljević	Budućnost	25
2	Yotam Halperin	Spartak St. Petersburg	31

• Patrick Beverley^[6] (Spartak St. Petersburg)

• Zoran Planinić^[7] (Khimki)

Position	All-Eurocup First Team[8]	Club team	All-Eurocup Second Team [9]	Club team
PG	Patrick Beverley	Spartak St. Petersburg	Yotam Halperin	Spartak St. Petersburg
SG/SF	Zoran Planinić	Khimki	Ramel Curry	Donetsk
SG/SF	Renaldas Seibutis	Lietuvos Rytas	Pavel Pumprla	ČEZ Nymburk
PF/C	Nik Caner-Medley	Valencia	Jeremiah Massey	Lokomotiv Kuban
PF/C	Jonas Valančiūnas	Lietuvos Rytas	Bojan Dubljević	Budućnost

• Jure Zdovc^[10] (Spartak St. Petersburg)

• Jonas Valančiūnas^[11] (Lietuvos Rytas)

• 2011–12 Euroleague Basketball
• 2011–12 EuroChallenge

• Seeding and draw procedure

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