2016–17 EuroLeague Women explained

EuroLeague Women
T Bg:
  1. F60F99
T Color:white
Season:2016–17
Teams:16 (Regular Season)
Games:126
Duration:26 October 2016 – 16 April 2017
Champions: Dynamo Kursk
Runners Up: Fenerbahçe
Third Place: UMMC Ekaterinburg
Fourth Place: ZVVZ USK Praha
Prevseason:2015–16
Nextseason:2017–18
Final Four Mvp: Angel McCoughtry[1]
(Dynamo Kursk)

The 2016–17 EuroLeague Women season is the 21st edition of EuroLeague Women under its current name. The season started on 26 October 2016.

Teams

Teams were confirmed by FIBA Europe on 22 June 2016.[2]

Regular season
width=210 UMMC Ekaterinburg (1st)width=210 Hatay BŞB (2nd)width=210 Villeneuve-d'Ascq (3rd)width=210 Wisła Can-Pack Kraków (1st)
width=210 Nadezhda Orenburg (2nd)width=210 Mersin BŞB (3rd)width=210 ZVVZ USK Praha (1st)width=210 CB Avenida (1st)
width=210 Dynamo Kursk (3rd)width=210 BLMA (1st)width=210 Uniqa Sopron (1st)width=210 Famila Schio (1st)
width=210 Fenerbahçe (1st)width=210 Tango Bourges Basket (2nd)width=210 UNI Győr (2nd)
Qualification round
width=210 CB Conquero (3rd)width=210 CCC Polkowice (4th)

Draw

SeedRegular Season
1
2 Nadezhda Orenburg
3 Tango Bourges Basket
4 Wisła Can-Pack Kraków
5 CB Avenida
6 BLMA
7 CCC Polkowice
8 Hatay BŞB

Regular season

Regular season will start on October 26, 2016 and will finish on February 22, 2017.

The four top teams of each group will qualify to the quarterfinals.

If teams are level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers are 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 game.

Group B

Quarter-finals

In the quarter-finals, teams playing against each other had to win two games to win the series. Thus, if one team win two games, before all three games have been played, the game that remain is omitted.

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Final four

Host Final Four – Yekaterinburg, Russia.[4] All times are local (UTC+5).

Semifinals

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Final


Statistical leaders

Points

Rk Name Team Games Points width=40PPG
1 Yvonne Turner Uniqa Sopron1324418.8
2 Diana Taurasi UMMC Ekaterinburg1526917.9
3 Angel McCoughtry Dynamo Kursk1831117.3
4 Sonja Petrović ZVVZ USK Praha1931416.5
5 Gintarė Petronytė Mersin BŞB1422616.1

Rebounds

Rk Name Team Games Rebounds width=40RPG
1 Nneka Ogwumike Dynamo Kursk1717410.2
2 Amanda Zahui Nadezhda Orenburg161499.3
3 Marija Režan CCC Polkowice141188.4
4 Clarissa dos Santos Tango Bourges Basket131078.2
5 Elizabeth Williams Nadezhda Orenburg171347.9

Assists

Rk Name Team Games Assists width=40APG
1 Laia Palau ZVVZ USK Praha191497.8
2 Nilay Kartaltepe Mersin BŞB14825.9
3 Birsel Vardarlı Fenerbahçe191115.8
4 Miljana Bojović Tango Bourges Basket16905.6
5 Anna Cruz Dynamo Kursk17945.5

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Dynamo Kursk crowned EuroLeague Women champions for the first time. FIBA. 16 April 2017. 27 August 2020.
  2. Web site: 2016-17 EuroLeague Women and EuroCup Women clubs confirmed. https://web.archive.org/web/20160623165739/http://www.fiba.com/news/2016-17-euroleague-women-and-eurocup-women-clubs-confirmed. live. June 23, 2016. FIBA Europe. 22 June 2016.
  3. https://www.fiba.basketball/news/euroleague-women-and-eurocup-women-draw-seedings-announced EuroLeague Women and EuroCup Women draw seedings announced
  4. https://www.fiba.basketball/europe/euroleaguewomen/2017/news/ekaterinburg-to-host-euroleague-women-final-four Ekaterinburg to host EuroLeague Women Final Four