1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague explained

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FIBA EuroLeague
T Bg:
  1. 204060
T Color:white
Pixels:300
Season:1999–2000
Champions: Panathinaikos
(2nd title)
Runners Up: Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv
Fourth Place: FC Barcelona
Teams:24
Duration:23 September 1999 – 20 April 2000
Final Four Mvp N:FRY
Final Four Mvp Link:EuroLeague Final Four MVP
Top Scorer:Miljan Goljović
Ppg:20.2
Ppg N:SLO
Rebounds Leader:Hüseyin Beşok
Rpg:10.0
Rpg N:TUR
Assists Leader:David Rivers
Apg:4.9
Apg N:USA

The 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague was the 43rd installment of the European top-tier level professional club competition for basketball clubs (now called simply EuroLeague). It began on September 23, 1999, and ended on April 20, 2000. The competition's Final Four was held at PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki, with Panathinaikos defeating Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv in the EuroLeague Final, in front of 8,500 spectators.[1]

Efes Pilsen finished in the third position, and FC Barcelona finished fourth.

Competition system

Country ranking

For the 1999–2000 EuroLeague, the countries are allocated places according to their place on the FIBA country rankings, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1996–97 to 1998–99.[2]

Country ranking for 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague
RankCountryPointsTeamsNotes
1237.667align=center rowspan=43
2179.167
3150.167
470.500
568.833align=center rowspan=42+1, Cholet got wild card
655.556-1, Lietuvos rytas withdrew
754.500
835.695Lost one berth
930.622align=center rowspan=41+1, Pivovarna got wild card
1027.833
1125.542
1222.108
1320.714align=center rowspan=260
1413.817
1513.762
166.143
174.559
184.429
194.375
RankCountryPointsTeamsNotes
203.528align=center rowspan=190
213.187
223.008
232.917
242.583
252.302
261.917
271.722
281.667
290.667
300.611
310.472
320.389
330.333
340.278
350.111
360.055
370.000
380.000
Note

Team allocation

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

Regular season
Varese Roosters (1st) FC Barcelona (1st) Pau-Orthez (1st) Union Olimpija (1st)
Benetton Treviso (2nd) Caja San Fernando (2nd) ASVEL (2nd) Pivovarna Laško (WC)
Paf Wennington Bologna (3rd) Real Madrid Teka (3rd) Cholet (WC) CSKA Moscow (1st)
Panathinaikos (1st) Tofaş (1st) Budućnost (1st) Alba Berlin (1st)
Olympiacos (2nd) Efes Pilsen (2nd) Crvena zvezda (2nd) Cibona VIP (1st)
PAOK (3rd) Ülker (3rd) Žalgiris (1st) Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv (1st)

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Qualification round

(The individual scores and standings of the First stage were accumulated in the Second stage)

If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

  1. Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
  2. Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
  3. Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs were not in the same group)
  4. Points scored in all group matches
  5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Play Offs

Bracket

Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding, the numbers to the right indicate the result of games including result in bold of the team that won in that game, and the numbers furthest to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round.

Eight-Finals

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Quarter-Finals

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Final Four

See main article: 2000 FIBA EuroLeague Final Four.

Semifinals

April 18, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki|}

Third place game

April 20, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki|}

Final

April 20, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki|}

Awards

All official awards of the 1999–00 FIBA EuroLeague.

FIBA EuroLeague Final Four MVP

FIBA EuroLeague All-Final Four Team

class="wikitable"
First Team[3]
Panathinaikos
Hedo Türkoğlu Efes Pilsen
Dejan Bodiroga Panathinaikos
Nate Huffman Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv
Željko Rebrača (MVP) Panathinaikos

FIBA EuroLeague Top Scorer

FIBA EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer

Statistics

Individual statistics

Points

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
Rankwidth=200Namewidth=210TeamGameswidth=85Pointswidth=50PPG
1. Miljan Goljović Pivovarna Laško1632320.2
2. David Rivers1631619.8
3. Wendell Alexis1833418.6
Source: FIBAEurope

Rebounds

Rankwidth=200Namewidth=210TeamGameswidth=85Reboundswidth=50RPG
1. Hüseyin Beşok Efes Pilsen2323110.0
2. Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv242259.4
3. Tofaş161469.1
Source: FIBAEurope

Assists

Rankwidth=200Namewidth=210TeamGameswidth=85Assistswidth=50APG
1. David Rivers Tofaş16794.9
2. Šarūnas Jasikevičius221084.9
3. Damir Mulaomerović231084.7
Source: FIBAEurope

Blocks

Rankwidth=200Namewidth=210TeamGameswidth=85Blockswidth=50BPG
1. Efthimios Rentzias FC Barcelona1280.7
2. Željko Rebrača23150.7
3. Andrei Kirilenko19100.5
Source: FIBAEurope

Other statistics

Categorywidth=190Playerwidth=230Teamwidth=55Gameswidth=80Average
Steals16 2.9
Turnovers14 3.4
Minutes16 38.7
FT %17 91.9%
2-Point %19 64.2%
3-Point %17 55.7%

Individual game highs

width=85Categorywidth=190Playerwidth=230Teamwidth=50StatisticOpponent
Points 38 CSKA Moscow (Feb 3, 2000)
Rebounds19 Pivovarna Laško (Dec 8, 1999)
Assists 12 Cholet (Sep 23, 1999)
Blocks5 Ülker (Feb 29, 2000)
Cibona VIP (Mar 21, 2000)
Steals8 Cholet (Oct 21, 1999)
Alba Berlin (Nov 18, 1999)

Team statistics

Categorywidth=230Teamwidth=70Average
Points77.0
Rebounds32.5
Assists16.6
Blocks1.2
Steals11.8
Turnovers15.2
FT % 80.5%
2-Point % 59.5%
3-Point % 41.4%

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.linguasport.com/baloncesto/internacional/clubes/c1/C1_2000.htm Euroleague 1999-2000
  2. Web site: Linguasport - FIBA Country Ranking (B). www.linguasport.com. 2020-05-31.
  3. http://www.linguasport.com/baloncesto/internacional/clubes/c1/C1_2000.htm Champions Cup 1999–00.