2015–16 Eurocup Basketball

A total of 44 teams from 15 countries participated in the 2015–16 Eurocup Basketball.^[1][2]

The table below shows the default access list.^[1][2]

In July 2015, VEF Rīga, PGE Turów and Juventus withdrew from the competition for join to the FIBA Europe Cup and were replaced by Proximus Spirou, Avtodor Saratov and Szolnoki Olaj.^[3] In August 2015, ČEZ Nymburk and Telenet Oostende withdrew from the competition for join to the FIBA Europe Cup after the draw of Eurocup and were replaced by EWE Baskets Oldenburg and MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg.^[4]

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:^[5][3][4]

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• WC: Wild card
• AV: Allocated vacancy from any withdrawal
• EL: Transferred from Euroleague
  • RS: Fifth-placed and sixth-placed teams from regular season

Last 32
Bayern Munich (EL RS)	Limoges CSP (EL RS)	Pınar Karşıyaka (EL RS)	Maccabi Tel Aviv (EL RS)
SIG Strasbourg (EL RS)	EA7 Emporio Armani Milan (EL RS)	Stelmet Zielona Góra (EL RS)	Banco di Sardegna Sassari (EL RS)
Regular season
Conference 1		Conference 2
Alba Berlin (3rd)	Valencia Basket (4th)	Nizhny Novgorod (4th)	PAOK (3rd)
ratiopharm Ulm (4th)	Dominion Bilbao Basket (5th)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (5th)	Aris (WC)
Telekom Baskets Bonn (5th)	Herbalife Gran Canaria (8th)	UNICS (6th)	AEK (WC)
EWE Baskets Oldenburg (AV)	CAI Zaragoza (WC)	Avtodor Saratov (AV)	Lietuvos rytas (2nd)
MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg (AV)	Le Mans Sarthe (3rd)	Krasny Oktyabr (WC)	Neptūnas (WC)
Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia (2nd)	SLUC Nancy (4th)	Banvit (6th)	Hapoel Jerusalem (1st)
Umana Reyer Venezia (4th)	JSF Nanterre (5th)	Trabzonspor Medical Park (4th)	Budućnost VOLI (3rd)
Dolomiti Energia Trento (5th)	Union Olimpija (5th)	Galatasaray Odeabank (WC)	Steaua CSM EximBank București (WC)
Enel Basket Brindisi (WC)	Proximus Spirou (AV)	Beşiktaş Sompo Japan (WC)	Szolnoki Olaj (AV)

The schedule of the competition is as follows.^[1][3]

The draw was held on 9 July 2015, 12:00 CEST, at the Mediapro Auditorium in Barcelona.^[3] The 36 teams were drawn into six groups of six, with the restriction that teams from the same country could not be drawn against each other. For this purpose, Adriatic League worked as only one country. For the draw, the teams were seeded into six pots, in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period and the lowest possible position that any club from that league can occupy in the draw is calculated by adding the results of the worst performing team from each league.^[3]

Conference 1

Pot 1 Team   Alba Berlin   Valencia Basket   ČEZ Nymburk	Pot 2 Team   Herbalife Gran Canaria   CAI Zaragoza   Dominion Bilbao Basket	Pot 3 Team   Union Olimpija   Telenet Oostende   ratiopharm Ulm
Pot 4 Team   JSF Nanterre   SLUC Nancy   Le Mans Sarthe	Pot 5 Team   Proximus Spirou   Telekom Baskets Bonn   Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	Pot 6 Team   Umana Reyer Venezia   Dolomiti Energia Trento   Enel Basket Brindisi

Conference 2

Pot 1 Team   UNICS   Galatasaray Odeabank   Beşiktaş Sompo Japan	Pot 2 Team   Banvit   Nizhny Novgorod   Lietuvos rytas	Pot 3 Team   Trabzonspor Medical Park   Zenit Saint Petersburg   Krasny Oktyabr
Pot 4 Team   Avtodor Saratov   Budućnost VOLI   Hapoel Jerusalem	Pot 5 Team   PAOK   Aris   AEK	Pot 6 Team   Neptūnas   Steaua CSM EximBank București   Szolnoki Olaj

 

 

Valencia

 

Bilbao

 

Zaragoza

 

Gran Canaria

 

Nizhny Novgorod

 

Saint Petersburg

 

UNICS

 

Krasny Oktyabr

 

Saratov

 

Banvit

 

Beşiktaş

 

Galatasaray

 

Trabzon

 

Olimpija

 

Budućnost

 

Berlin

 

Ulm

 

Bonn

 

Oldenburg

 

Ludwigsburg

 

PAOK

 

Aris

 

AEK

 

Reggio Emilia

 

Venezia

 

Trento

 

Brindisi

 

Le Mans

 

Nancy

 

Nanterre

 

H. Jerusalem

 

Rytas

 

Neptūnas

 

Spirou

 

București

 

Szolnok

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Location of teams of the 2015–16 Eurocup regular season.
Conference 1:   Red: Group A;   Green: Group B;   Blue: Group C;
Conference 2:   Yellow: Group D;   Pink: Group E;   Orange: Group F;

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The four first qualified teams advanced to the Last 32, while the fifth and the sixth-placed teams was eliminated. The rounds were 13–14 October, 20–21 October, 27–28 October, 3–4 November, 10–11 November, 17–18 November, 24–25 November, 1–2 December, 8–9 December and 15–16 December 2015.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		DBB	TRE	UOL	EWE	JSF	TBB
1	Dominion Bilbao Basket	10	8	2	856	729	+127	Advance to Last 32		—	104–91	80–83	73–68	73–76	95−80
2	Dolomiti Energia Trento	10	7	3	875	827	+48			75–80	—	90–77	80–69	70–55	98–96
3	Union Olimpija	10	5	5	799	828	−29			63–84	98–97	—	81–82	78−65	77–82
4	EWE Baskets Oldenburg	10	4	6	764	820	−56			60–94	80−93	75–77	—	84–81	77–70
5	JSF Nanterre	10	4	6	772	801	−29			52–83	79–85	85–72	83–92	—	101–78
6	Telekom Baskets Bonn	10	2	8	838	899	−61			81–90	89–96	88–93	88–77	86–95	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		HGC	MHP	REG	ALB	MSB	NBB
1	Herbalife Gran Canaria	10	8	2	839	752	+87	Advance to Last 32		—	95−75	76–67	83–78	77–62	103–76
2	MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg	10	7	3	811	732	+79			92–89	—	65–76	79–60	90–49	84–80
3	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	10	6	4	778	759	+19			73–78	69–68	—	74–71	93–82	82–79
4	Alba Berlin	10	5	5	774	790	−16			84–71	79–90	82–76	—	80–86	80–79
5	Le Mans Sarthe	10	3	7	721	785	−64			74–79	75–81	71–87	84–88	—	66–45
6	Enel Basket Brindisi	10	1	9	710	815	−105			71–88	60–87	87–81	68–72	65−72	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		VBC	CAI	ULM	URV	SPI	SLU
1	Valencia Basket	10	10	0	809	689	+120	Advance to Last 32		—	87–68	93–88	88–59	97–76	77−65
2	CAI Zaragoza	10	7	3	760	757	+3			76−84	—	69–59	82–72	80–70	75–71
3	ratiopharm Ulm	10	4	6	804	792	+12			79–82	81–84	—	87–68	76−77	90−73
4	Umana Reyer Venezia	10	4	6	721	760	−39			58–62	77−79	90−78	—	73–69	70−67
5	Proximus Spirou	10	3	7	731	782	−51			49−65	80−69	80−86	86–83	—	81–86
6	SLUC Nancy	10	2	8	714	759	−45			71–74	76–78	76–80	62−71	67–63	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		ARI	UNK	TRA	BAN	POD	STE
1	Aris	10	7	3	731	701	+30	Advance to Last 32		—	76–70	78–70	72–53	75–57	70–66
2	UNICS	10	7	3	800	722	+78			73–74	—	78–64	78–69	91–77	94–68
3	Trabzonspor Medical Park	10	5	5	754	759	−5			74–71	73–80	—	96–88	75–71	82–67
4	Banvit	10	5	5	770	757	+13			96–84	79–85	71–67	—	76–68	90–60
5	Budućnost VOLI	10	4	6	747	725	+22			75–56	73–63	79–82	83–70	—	89–56
6	Steaua CSM EximBank București	10	2	8	676	814	−138			67–77	71–88	76–71	64–78	81–75	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		ZEN	AVT	PBC	SZO	BJK	LRY
1	Zenit Saint Petersburg	10	8	2	820	746	+74	Advance to Last 32		—	81–88	76−66	89–64	82–58	92–84
2	Avtodor Saratov	10	7	3	947	839	+108			85−90	—	90–68	104–78	93−83	109–92
3	PAOK	10	5	5	773	831	−58			70−89	104–99	—	72−69	80–100	81–76
4	Szolnoki Olaj	10	4	6	763	827	−64			75–84	83–79	78–69	—	85–67	65–89
5	Beşiktaş Sompo Japan	10	4	6	810	842	−32			91–67	79−103	73–75	76–67	—	92–103
6	Lietuvos rytas	10	2	8	856	884	−28			65–70	81–97	81–88	98−99	87−91	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		GSL	NEP	NIZ	JER	AEK	OKT
1	Galatasaray Odeabank	10	7	3	867	789	+78	Advance to Last 32		—	76–82	87–85	87–79	89−65	103–76
2	Neptūnas	10	6	4	829	807	+22			90−94	—	82–75	87−85	80–86	99–90
3	Nizhny Novgorod	10	6	4	801	780	+21			81–75	78–82	—	92−71	86–79	82−74
4	Hapoel Jerusalem	10	5	5	808	798	+10			86–82	74−59	70–74	—	82–78	92–90
5	AEK	10	5	5	794	812	−18			73−86	75–71	87–70	75–74	—	94−96
6	Krasny Oktyabr	10	1	9	797	910	−113			72–88	74–97	73−78	74–95	78–82	—

 

 

Valencia

 

Zaragoza

 

Bilbao

 

Gran Canaria

 

Zenit

 

Avtodor

 

UNICS

 

Nizhny Novgorod

 

Banvit

 

Trabzonspor

 

Galatasaray

 

Karşıyaka

 

Olimpija

 

Ulm

 

Oldenburg

 

Alba

 

Ludwigsburg

 

Bayern Munich

 

PAOK

 

Aris

 

Sassari

 

Trento

 

Reggio Emilia

 

Venezia

 

Olimpia

 

Strasbourg

 

Limoges

 

Hapoel Jerusalem

 

Maccabi Tel Aviv

 

Neptūnas

 

Zielona Góra

 

Szolnoki Olaj

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Location of teams of the 2015–16 Eurocup Last 32.
  Brown: Group G;   Red: Group H;   Orange: Group I;   Yellow: Group J;
  Green: Group K;   Blue: Group L;   Purple: Group M;   Pink: Group N.

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The two first qualified teams advanced to the knockout stage, while the two last qualified teams were eliminated. The rounds were 5–6 January, 12–13 January, 19–20 January, 26–27 January, 2–3 February and 9–10 February 2016.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		BAY	BAN	DBB	ULM
1	Bayern Munich	6	4	2	476	454	+22	Advance to Eighthfinals		—	77–62	88–90	83–69
2	Banvit	6	4	2	487	455	+32			83–85	—	73–65	92–72
3	Dominion Bilbao Basket	6	3	3	483	464	+19			76–78	76–85	—	83–65
4	ratiopharm Ulm	6	1	5	435	508	−73			74–65	80–92	75–93	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		HGC	SIG	AVT	JER
1	Herbalife Gran Canaria	6	5	1	531	440	+91	Advance to Eighthfinals		—	76–85	101–77	108–61
2	SIG Strasbourg	6	4	2	464	456	+8			68–79	—	77–74	75–71
3	Avtodor Saratov	6	3	3	531	540	−9			85–92	87–80	—	105–96
4	Hapoel Jerusalem	6	0	6	455	545	−90			64–75	69–79	94–103	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		EWE	LIM	VBC	PBC
1	EWE Baskets Oldenburg	6	4	2	494	490	+4	Advance to Eighthfinals		—	92–88	89–108	83–71
2	Limoges CSP	6	3	3	494	467	+27			78–87	—	82–67	79–61
3	Valencia Basket	6	3	3	474	462	+12			77–62	72–92	—	78–62
4	PAOK	6	2	4	425	468	−43			68–81	88–75	75–72	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		EA7	ALB	ARI	NEP
1	EA7 Emporio Armani Milan	6	4	2	474	442	+32	Advance to Eighthfinals		—	91–78	95–54	79–71
2	Alba Berlin	6	3	3	447	433	+14			83–67	—	82–67	76–62
3	Aris	6	3	3	429	438	−9			83–68	73–63	—	84–58
4	Neptūnas	6	2	4	409	446	−37			73–74	73–65	72–68	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		TRE	KSK	TRA	REG
1	Dolomiti Energia Trento	6	4	2	470	467	+3	Advance to Eighthfinals		—	76–72	73–89	82–63
2	Pınar Karşıyaka	6	3	3	498	426	+72			79–85	—	81–68	109–66
3	Trabzonspor Medical Park	6	3	3	450	465	−15			92–70	43–76	—	82–76
4	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	6	2	4	454	514	−60			72–84	88–81	89–76	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		ZEN	ZGA	MHP	URV
1	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	4	2	479	470	+9	Advance to Eighthfinals		—	69–73	83–80	79–72
2	Stelmet Zielona Góra	6	3	3	458	463	−5			76–90	—	76–81	83–92
3	MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg	6	3	3	477	468	+9			85–72	73–82	—	94–84
4	Umana Reyer Venezia	6	2	4	461	474	−13			84–86	58–68	71–64	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		UNK	NIZ	MTA	UOL
1	UNICS	6	6	0	495	449	+46	Advance to Eighthfinals		—	84–74	78–68	72–64
2	Nizhny Novgorod	6	3	3	490	482	+8			78–80	—	83–87	81–74
3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	2	4	469	494	−25			82–92	84–95	—	82–73
4	Union Olimpija	6	1	5	440	469	−29			83–89	73–79	73–66	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		GSL	CAI	DSS	SZO
1	Galatasaray Odeabank	6	4	2	493	414	+79	Advance to Eighthfinals		—	103–68	87–69	87–59
2	CAI Zaragoza	6	4	2	480	451	+29			85–68	—	87–75	88–60
3	Banco di Sardegna Sassari	6	3	3	463	480	−17			79–74	75–72	—	90–74
4	Szolnoki Olaj	6	1	5	403	494	−91			54–74	70–80	86–75	—

In the knockout stage, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, with the overall cumulative score determining the winner of a round. Thus, the score of one single game can be tied.

• The team that finished in the higher Last 32 place will be played the second game of the series at home.
• If both teams placed the same in the Last 32, the team with more Last 32 victories will be played the second game at home.
• In case of a tie in both place and victories, the team with the higher cumulative Last 32 point difference will be played the second game at home.

	Eighthfinals February 24 – March 2						Quarterfinals March 15 – March 23						Semifinals March 29 – April 6						Finals April 22 – April 27
	Bayern Munich	82	84	166
	Alba Berlin	82	75	157
							Bayern Munich	99	59	158
							Galatasaray Odeabank	89	72	161
	Galatasaray Odeabank	64	93	157
	Pınar Karşıyaka	67	65	132
													Galatasaray Odeabank	89	81	170
													Herbalife Gran Canaria	75	94	169
	Herbalife Gran Canaria	82	77	159
	Limoges CSP	65	78	143
							Herbalife Gran Canaria	93	83	176
							Stelmet Zielona Góra	82	86	168
	UNICS	72	54	126
	Stelmet Zielona Góra	68	71	139
																			Galatasaray Odeabank	62	78	140
																			SIG Strasbourg	66	67	133
	EWE Baskets Oldenburg	78	64	142
	SIG Strasbourg	76	93	169
							SIG Strasbourg	94	91	185
							Nizhny Novgorod	85	91	176
	Zenit Saint Petersburg	76	89	165
	Nizhny Novgorod	102	74	176
													SIG Strasbourg	68	86	154
													Dolomiti Energia Trento	74	78	152
	EA7 Emporio Armani Milan	72	79	151
	Banvit	69	76	145
							EA7 Emporio Armani Milan	73	79	152
							Dolomiti Energia Trento	83	92	175
	Dolomiti Energia Trento	83	79	162
	CAI Zaragoza	85	65	150

The first legs were played on 24 February, and the second legs were played on 1 and 2 March 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	166–157	Alba Berlin	82–82	84–75
Herbalife Gran Canaria	159–143	Limoges CSP	82–65	77–78
EWE Baskets Oldenburg	142–169	SIG Strasbourg	78–76	64–93
EA7 Emporio Armani Milan	151–145	Banvit	72–69	79–76
Dolomiti Energia Trento	162–150	CAI Zaragoza	83–85	79–65
Zenit Saint Petersburg	165–176	Nizhny Novgorod	76–102	89–74
UNICS	126–139	Stelmet Zielona Góra	72–68	54–71
Galatasaray Odeabank	157–132	Pınar Karşıyaka	64–67	93–65

The first legs were played on 15 and 16 March, and the second legs were played on 22 and 23 March 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Galatasaray Odeabank	161–158	Bayern Munich	89–99	72–59
Herbalife Gran Canaria	176–168	Stelmet Zielona Góra	93–82	83–86
SIG Strasbourg	185–176	Nizhny Novgorod	94–85	91–91
EA7 Emporio Armani Milan	152–175	Dolomiti Energia Trento	73–83	79–92

The first legs were played on 29 and 30 March, and the second legs were played on 6 April 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Herbalife Gran Canaria	169–170	Galatasaray Odeabank	75–89	94–81
Dolomiti Energia Trento	152–154	SIG Strasbourg	74–68	78–86

The first leg was played on 22 April, and the second leg was played on 27 April 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Galatasaray Odeabank	140–133	SIG Strasbourg	62–66	78–67

Player	Team	Ref.
Errick McCollum	Galatasaray Odeabank	[6]

Player	Team	Ref.
Stéphane Lasme	Galatasaray Odeabank	[7]

Position	All-Eurocup First Team		All-Eurocup Second Team		Ref
	Player	Club	Player	Club
G	Errick McCollum	Galatasaray Odeabank	Kevin Pangos	Herbalife Gran Canaria	[8]
G	Mardy Collins	SIG Strasbourg	Victor Rudd	Nizhny Novgorod
F	Vladimir Micov	Galatasaray Odeabank	Mateusz Ponitka	Stelmet Zielona Góra
F	Davide Pascolo	Dolomiti Energia Trento	Julian Wright	Dolomiti Energia Trento
C	Alen Omić	Herbalife Gran Canaria	Stéphane Lasme	Galatasaray Odeabank

Coach	Team	Ref.
Maurizio Buscaglia	Dolomiti Energia Trento	[9]

Player	Team	Ref.
Mateusz Ponitka	Stelmet Zielona Góra	[10]

Regular season

Round	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Raymar Morgan	ratiopharm Ulm	41	[11]
2	Dragan Milosavljević	Alba Berlin	29	[12]
3	Zabian Dowdell	Zenit Saint Petersburg	51	[13]
4	Zack Wright	Union Olimpija	36	[14]
	Errick McCollum	Galatasaray Odeabank
5	E. J. Rowland	Hapoel Jerusalem	38	[15]
	Loukas Mavrokefalidis	AEK
6	Loukas Mavrokefalidis (2)	AEK	36	[16]
	Kšyštof Lavrinovič	Lietuvos rytas
7	Billy Baron	Proximus Spirou	36	[17]
	Paul Stoll	Avtodor Saratov
8	Tywain McKee	Le Mans Sarthe	36	[18]
9	Quino Colom	UNICS	38	[19]
10	Keith Langford	UNICS	31	[20]

Last 32

Round	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Quino Colom (2)	UNICS	41	[21]
2	Quino Colom (3)	UNICS	47	[22]
3	Stéphane Lasme	Galatasaray Odeabank	35	[23]
4	Adrien Moerman	Banvit	38	[24]
5	Travis Peterson	Avtodor Saratov	33	[25]
6	Alen Omić	Herbalife Gran Canaria	37	[26]

Eighthfinals

Game	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Victor Rudd	Nizhny Novgorod	32	[27]
2	Errick McCollum (2)	Galatasaray Odeabank	29	[28]

Quarterfinals

Game	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Alen Omić (2)	Herbalife Gran Canaria	27	[29]
	Mardy Collins	SIG Strasbourg
	Deon Thompson	Bayern Munich
2	Dominique Sutton	Dolomiti Energia Trento	34	[30]

Semifinals

Game	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Chuck Davis	Galatasaray Odeabank	29	[31]
2	D. J. Seeley	Herbalife Gran Canaria	28	[32]

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