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2002–03 Euroleague

Sports season

Field	Value
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title	Euroleague
season	2002–03
image	Barcelona Palau San Jordi 001.jpg
pixels	300
caption	The Final Four was held in Palau Sant Jordi
champions	ESP FC Barcelona (1st title)
runners_up	ITA Benetton Treviso
third_place	ITA Montepaschi Siena
fourth_place	RUS CSKA Moscow
teams	24 (from 13 countries)
games	220 (total)
award4	Regular Season MVP
award4_winner	USA Joseph Blair
award4_link	EuroLeague Regular Season and Top 16 MVP
award5	Top 16 MVP
award5_winner	TUR Mirsad Türkcan
award5_link	EuroLeague Regular Season and Top 16 MVP
award6	Final Four MVP
award6_link	EuroLeague Final Four MVP
award6_winner	Serbia and Montenegro Dejan Bodiroga
PIR_leader	TUR Mirsad Türkcan
pir	24.0
top_scorer	FRY Miloš Vujanić
ppg	25.8
rebounds_leader	TUR Mirsad Türkcan
rpg	11.8
assists_leader	USA Ed Cota
apg	6.5

The 2002–03 Euroleague was the third season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 46th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The 2002–03 season featured 24 competing teams from 13 countries without qualifying rounds as FIBA organised its own top-tier competition and many teams competed in the 2002–03 FIBA Europe Champions Cup. The final of the competition was held in Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain, with hosts FC Barcelona defeating Benetton Treviso 76–65.

Team allocation

Distribution

The table below shows the default access list.

Teams entering in this round	Regular season
(24 teams)	Top 16
(16 teams)	Final Four
(4 teams)

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: EuroLeague title holders)

1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
LC: 3-year licence
WC: Wild card
TH: Title holder

Regular season
ITA Benetton Treviso (1st)
ITA Skipper Bologna (2nd)
ITA Kinder Bologna (3rd)
ITA Montepaschi Siena (5th)WC
ESP Tau Cerámica ([1st](2001-02-acb-season))
ESP Unicaja Málaga ([2nd](2001-02-acb-season))

Regular season

The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advanced to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers was provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

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

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

Group A

Group B

Group C

Top 16

The surviving teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system was adopted, resulting in 6 games each, with the top team advancing to the Final Four. Tiebreakers were identical to those used in the Regular Season.

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Final four

Main article: 2003 Euroleague Final Four

The Final Four was played from 9 May until 11 May 2003 and was held in the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. 9 May|RD2=Final 11 May |RUS CSKA Moscow|71|ESP FC Barcelona|76 ||ITA Montepaschi Siena|62|ITA Benetton Treviso|65

||ESP FC Barcelona|76|ITA Benetton Treviso|65 ||RUS CSKA Moscow|78|ITA Montepaschi Siena|79

Awards

Top Scorer

Player	Team
SCG Miloš Vujanić	SCG Partizan

Regular Season MVP

Player	Team
USA Joseph Blair	TUR Ülker

Top 16 MVP

Player	Team
TUR Mirsad Türkcan	ITA Montepaschi Siena

Final Four MVP

Player	Team
SCG Dejan Bodiroga	ESP FC Barcelona

Finals Top Scorer

Player	Team
SCG Dejan Bodiroga	ESP FC Barcelona

All-Euroleague First Team

Player	Team
USA Tyus Edney	ITA Benetton Treviso
USA Alphonso Ford	ITA Montepaschi Siena
SCG Dejan Bodiroga	ESP FC Barcelona
ESP Jorge Garbajosa	ITA Benetton Treviso
USA Victor Alexander	RUS CSKA Moscow

All-Euroleague Second Team

Player	Team
SCG Miloš Vujanić	SCG Partizan
USA Marcus Brown	TUR Efes Pilsen
ARG Andrés Nocioni	ESP Tau Cerámica
TUR Mirsad Türkcan	ITA Montepaschi Siena
CRO Nikola Vujčić	ISR Maccabi Elite

Euroleague All-Stars

On 2 October 2002 Euroleague All-Star Team led by Tyus Edney defeated Real Madrid in exhibition game 91–85.

Real Madrid – Euroleague All-Stars 85–91

Real Madrid (22+15+21+27): Michael Hawkins 2, Alberto Herreros 16, Angulo 7, Derrick Alston 6, Hernández-Sonseca 11; Digbeu 14, Dragan Tarlac 16, Victoriano 13, Macej Lampe, Nadeau.

Euroliga Stars(21+23+14+33): Tyus Edney 16, McDonald 9, Alvertis 2, Turkcan 2, Nicola 8; Kakiouzis 18, Luis Scola 8, Gregor Fucka 11, Navarro 3, Shelef 2, Vujcic 12, Weis; Coach: Zeljko Obradovic.

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20021016164031/http://www.eurobasket.com/events/eluleb/02-03/eluleb.asp Euroleague All-Stars vs Real Madrid]

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