The 2017âÂÂ18 EuroCup Basketball, also known as 7DAYS EuroCup for sponsorship reasons, season was the 16th season of Euroleague Basketball's secondary level professional club basketball tournament. It will be the tenth season since it was renamed from the ULEB Cup to the EuroCup, and the second season under the title sponsorship name of 7DAYS.
The 2018 EuroCup Finals were played between Darüà Âà Âafaka and Lokomotiv Kuban, and won by Darüà Âà Âafaka, which was their first EuroCup title. As the winners of the 2017âÂÂ18 EuroCup Basketball, Darüà Âà Âafaka qualified for the European top-tier level 2018âÂÂ19 EuroLeague season.
For the 2017âÂÂ18 season, the EuroCup went back to the initial format for the 2016âÂÂ17 season which includes 24 teams playing in four regular season groups, with 16 teams advancing to the Top 16 phase, featuring four groups of four teams each. Eight teams will qualify for best-of-three quarterfinals, which will be followed by best-of-three semifinals and best-of-three finals.
A total of 24 teams from 12 countries participated in the 2017âÂÂ18 EuroCup Basketball.
The table below shows the default access list.
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
The schedule of the competition is as follows.
The draw was held on 6 July 2017, 13:30 CEST, at the Mediapro Auditorium in Barcelona. The 24 teams were drawn into four 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 could occupy in the draw was calculated by adding the results of the worst performing team from each league.
In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners, runners-up, third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams advanced to the Top 16, while the fifth-placed teams and sixth-placed teams were eliminated. The rounds were on 10âÂÂ11 October, 17âÂÂ18 October, 24âÂÂ25 October, 31 OctoberâÂÂ1 November, 7âÂÂ8 November, 14âÂÂ15 November, 5âÂÂ6 December, 12âÂÂ13 December, 19âÂÂ20 December and 26âÂÂ27 December 2017.
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In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the Playoffs, while the third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams were eliminated. The rounds were on 2âÂÂ3 January, 9âÂÂ10 January, 16âÂÂ17 January, 23âÂÂ24 January, 30âÂÂ31 January and 6âÂÂ7 February 2018.
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In the playoffs, teams played against each other must win two games to win the series. Thus, if one team wins two games before all three games have been played, the game that remains is omitted. The team that finished in the higher Top 16 place will play the first and the third (if it is necessary) legs of the series at home. The playoffs involves the eight teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the four groups in the Top 16.