The 2014âÂÂ15 Eurocup Basketball season was the 13th edition of Europe's second-tier level transnational competition for men's professional basketball clubs, the EuroCup. The EuroCup is the European-wide league level that is one level below the EuroLeague.
Khimki won the competition, after beating Herbalife Gran Canaria in the Finals, and earned a spot in the regular season of the 2015âÂÂ16 Euroleague.
The competition format was the same as in the 2013âÂÂ14 season, but reducing the Regular Season. For this year 36 teams joined this first stage and were divided into two conferences.
The Regular Season featured six groups of six teams each one, where the four best teams qualified to the Last 32 stage with the eight teams that do not qualify to the 2014âÂÂ15 Euroleague Top 16. From this stage to the final, the format was the same as in the last season.
Teams were confirmed on June 26 by the company Euroleague Basketball.
<small>Notes:<br> â Qualified through wild card<br> ^ Qualified as loser of Euroleague qualifying round</small>
The draws for the 2014âÂÂ15 Eurocup were held on Monday, 29 September, after the Euroleague Qualifying Rounds were played.
Teams were divided into two geographical conferences with 18 teams and 3 groups each. For the each conference teams were seeded into six pots of Three teams in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period.
Two teams from the same country could not be drawn together in the same Regular Season group if possible. The nations from the former Yugoslavia, which compete jointly in the Adriatic LeagueâÂÂSerbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Bosnia and HerzegovinaâÂÂare considered as one country for purposes of the draw.
The Regular Season runs from Tuesday, October 14 to Wednesday, December 17.
If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
The Last 32 phase runs from Tuesday, January 6 to Wednesday, February 11.
If teams were level on record at the end of the Last 32 phase, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
In the knockout phase rounds will be played in a home-and-away format, with the overall cumulative score determining the winner of a round. Thus, the score of one single game can be tied.