VTB United League 2011/2012

VTB United League 2011/2012
VTB United League 2011/2012
General information
	September 27, 2011 - May 3, 2012
Number of participants	22
Top places
Champion	CSKA (3rd title)
Second place	UNICS
Third place	Lietuvos Rytas
Tournament statistics
Matches played	167
Total points	25362
Average points per match	151.9
Total viewers	457268
Average spectators per match	2738
Best players
Most valuable player	Andrey Kirilenko
Bombardier	Rawl Marshall (16.8 points)

VTB United League 2011/2012 is the third official VTB United League official draw. The tournament was attended by 22 clubs from 10 countries.

Of the clubs that participated in the previous season , only Khonki’s participation was questionable due to funding problems ^[1] . In September, Honka declared bankrupt and another Finnish club, Torpan Poyat , was invited to qualify for it ^[2] . Among the applicants for additional places were called Astana ^[3] , Nymburk , Lokomotiv-Kuban , Spartak ^[4] and Budivelnik ^[5] .

At the end of July 2011, a meeting of the League Council was held in Riga , at which the format of the tournament and the composition of its participants were finally approved. In the regular season 18 clubs took part, which held a two-round tournament. 16 participants of this tournament became known in advance. The remaining two places were to play six more clubs in the qualifying tournament. The newcomers to the tournament were the Russian Yenisei and Krasnye Krylia , the Ukrainian Dnieper , the Lithuanian Siauliai , the Polish Anvil and the Finnish Torpan Poyat ^[6] .

Content

Members

Competition Format

The regular season started on September 29, 2011 and ended on March 18, 2012. 18 participating teams, divided into two groups, held a 2-round tournament. According to the results of the regular season, the two winners of the groups went directly to the “Final Four”, and the teams that took 2-4 places will play in the playoffs in April. First, in the 1/8 finals, the third and fourth teams from the groups will meet, and then, in the 1/4 finals, the winners of these pairs will compete with the teams that become second in their groups. Both rounds of the playoffs will go to two wins. The “Final Four” of the third in the history of the VTB United League Championship is scheduled for May 2-3, 2012.

Qualification

The qualification tournament took place on September 27 - October 1 in Šiauliai with the participation of six teams who played two tickets to the regular league championship. First, the participants played in two groups: A (Russian Yenisei, Finnish Torpan Poyat, Polish Anvil) and B (Lithuanian Siauliai, Russian Krasnye Krylia, Ukrainian Dnipro), and then the two strongest club from each three (the results of full-time games of applicants are taken into account) fought in the final round. In the VTB United League regular championship 2011/2012, Russian clubs entered Krasnye Krylia and Yenisei.

Regular Championship

	Exit to the Final Four		1/4 finals		Exit to the 1/8 finals

Group A

A place	Team	Games	Pob	Por	Clogged	Skipped	+/-	Glasses
one	UNICS	sixteen	14	2	1229	1025	+204	thirty
2	Khimki	sixteen	12	four	1299	1169	+130	28
3	Альalgiris	sixteen	9	7	1297	1219	+78	25
four	Nizhny Novgorod	sixteen	eight	eight	1272	1256	+16	24
five	WEF	sixteen	eight	eight	1240	1284	−44	24
6	Red Wings	sixteen	7	9	1172	1194	−22	23
7	Astana	sixteen	7	9	1199	1274	−75	23
eight	Alarm clock	sixteen	five	eleven	1201	1271	−70	21
9	Kalev	sixteen	2	14	1118	1335	−217	18
Data as of March 18, 2012 .

Group B

A place	Team	Games	Pob	Por	Clogged	Skipped	+/-	Glasses
one	CSKA	sixteen	14	2	1299	1023	+276	thirty
2	Spartacus	sixteen	eleven	five	1159	1075	+84	27
3	Lietuvos Rytas	sixteen	ten	6	1251	1154	+97	26
four	Lokomotiv-Kuban	sixteen	9	7	1212	1197	+15	25
five	Prokom	sixteen	eight	eight	1165	1148	+17	24
6	Azovmash	sixteen	eight	eight	1155	1170	−15	24
7	Nymburk	sixteen	eight	eight	1219	1200	+19	24
eight	Yenisei	sixteen	3	13	1170	1324	−154	nineteen
9	Minsk 2006	sixteen	one	15	1166	1505	−339	17
Data as of March 17, 2012 .

Playoffs

1/8 Finals


	Quarterfinal Teams

Team # 1	Score	Team # 2	1 match April 8th	2 match April 10th	3 match April 11 ^*
Альalgiris	0: 2	Lokomotiv-Kuban	44: 72	71: 80
Lietuvos Rytas	2-0	Nizhny Novgorod	64 : 60	82 : 61

* 3rd match in series if required.

Quarter Final


	Teams in the Final Four

Team # 1	Score	Team # 2	1 match April 18th	2 match 20 April	3 match April 21 ^*
Khimki	1: 2	Lietuvos Rytas	71: 82	80 : 62	78: 103
Spartacus	0: 2	Lokomotiv-Kuban	57: 71	60: 69