| Serie A2 Basket | |
| T Bg: | orange |
| T Color: | white |
| Season: | 2017–18 |
| Champions: | Alma Trieste (1st title) |
| Runners Up: | Novipiù Casale Monferrato |
| Semifinalists: | Consultinvest Bologna De' Longhi Treviso |
| Promoted: | Alma Pallacanestro Trieste |
| Relegated: | Agribertocchi Orzinuovi Cuore Basket Napoli Metextra Reggio Calabria |
| Teams: | 32 |
| Games: | 480 (Regular season) 45–75 (Playoffs) |
| Duration: | 29 September 2017 – June 2018 |
| Tv: | Sportitalia |
| Top Seed: | Alma Pallacanestro Trieste (East) Novipiù Casale Monferrato (West) |
| Finals Mvp: |  Daniele Cavaliero |
| Ppg: | 21.7 |
| Ppg N: | USA |
| Rpg: | 13.1 |
| Rpg N: | IRL |
| Apg: | 7.0 |
| Apg N: | ITA |
| Pir: | 25.2 |
| Pir N: | USA |
| Prevseason: | 2016–17 |
| Nextseason: | 2018–19 |
| Updated: | 17 June 2018 |
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.[1]
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.[2]
| Team | Arena | Capacity | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agribertocchi Orzinuovi | Orzinuovi | Centro San Filippo | align=right | 2,400 | |
| Alma Trieste | Trieste | PalaTrieste | align=right | 6,943 | |
| Andrea Costa Imola | Imola | PalaRuggi | align=right | 2,000 | |
| Assigeco Piacenza | Piacenza | PalaBanca | align=right | 4,500 | |
| Bergamo Basket | Bergamo | PalaNorda | align=right | 2,250 | |
| Bondi Ferrara | Ferrara | Pala Hilton Pharma | align=right | 3,504 | |
| Consultinvest Bologna | Bologna | Land Rover Arena | align=right | 5,721 | |
| De' Longhi Treviso | Treviso | PalaVerde | align=right | 5,134 | |
| Dinamica Mantova | Mantova | PalaBam | align=right | 5,000 | |
| G.S.A. Udine | Udine | PalaCarnera | align=right | 3,850 | |
| OraSì Ravenna | Ravenna | PalaDeAndré | align=right | 3,500 | |
| Roseto Sharks | Roseto | PalaMaggetti | align=right | 5,000 | |
| Termoforgia Jesi | Jesi | UBI BPA Sport Center | align=right | 3,500 | |
| Tezenis Verona | Verona | PalaOlimpia | align=right | 5,350 | |
| Unieuro Forlì | Forlì | align=right | 6,511 | ||
| XL Montegranaro | Montegranaro | PalaSavelli | align=right | 3,800 |
| Team | Home city | Arena | Capacity | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benacquista Latina | Latina | PalaBianchini | align=right | 2,500 | |
| Bertram Tortona | Tortona | PalaOltrepò | align=right | 1,500 | |
| Cuore Basket Napoli | Naples | PalaBarbuto | align=right | 5,500 | |
| Eurotrend Biella | Biella | BiellaForum | align=right | 5,707 | |
| Legnano | Knights Palace | align=right | 1,650 | ||
| Givova Scafati | Scafati | PalaMagnano | align=right | 3,700 | |
| Rome | align=right | 3,500 | |||
| Lighthouse Trapani | Trapani | Palaillio | align=right | 4,575 | |
| PalaCalafiore | align=right | 8,500 | |||
| Moncada Agrigento | Agrigento | PalaMoncada | align=right | 3,200 | |
| PalaFerraris | align=right | 3,508 | |||
| NPC Rieti | Rieti | PalaSojourner | align=right | 3,550 | |
| Pasta Cellino Cagliari | Cagliari | PalaPirastu | align=right | 2,266 | |
| Remer Treviglio | Treviglio | PalaFacchetti | align=right | 2,880 | |
| Soundreef Siena | Siena | align=right | 7,050 | ||
| Virtus Roma | Rome | Palazzetto dello Sport | align=right | 3,500 |
At the half of the league, the four first teams of each group in the table played the LNP Cup.
Source: [3]
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.
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.