2016–17 EuroLeague Women

The 2016–17 EuroLeague Women season is the 21st edition of EuroLeague Women under its current name. The season started on 26 October 2016.

EuroLeague Women
Season2016–17
Duration26 October 2016 – 16 April 2017
Games played126
Teams16 (Regular Season)
Finals
ChampionsRussia Dynamo Kursk
  Runners-upTurkey Fenerbahçe
Third placeRussia UMMC Ekaterinburg
Fourth placeCzech Republic ZVVZ USK Praha
Final Four MVPUnited States Angel McCoughtry[1]
(Dynamo Kursk)
Fenerbahçe - Uni Györ match

Teams

edit

Teams were confirmed by FIBA Europe on 22 June 2016.[2]

Regular season
  UMMC Ekaterinburg (1st)   Hatay BŞB (2nd)   Villeneuve-d'Ascq (3rd)   Wisła Can-Pack Kraków (1st)
  Nadezhda Orenburg (2nd)   Mersin BŞB (3rd)   ZVVZ USK Praha (1st)   CB Avenida (1st)
  Dynamo Kursk (3rd)   BLMA (1st)   Uniqa Sopron (1st)   Famila Schio (1st)
  Fenerbahçe (1st)   Tango Bourges Basket (2nd)   UNI Győr (2nd)
Qualification round
  CB Conquero (3rd)   CCC Polkowice (4th)

Draw

edit
  • 17 teams registered for EuroLeague Women 2016–17, resulting in 15 direct qualifiers, and one preliminary round to be played between CB Conquero and CCC Polkowice. Following the withdrawal of Spanish club CB Conquero, CCC Polkowice promoted to the regular season.
  • 16 EuroLeague Women teams will be drawn directly into two Regular Season groups of eight teams each. The clubs have been seeded based on the ranking of their performance in European club competitions in the last three seasons:[3]
Seed Regular Season
1   UMMC Ekaterinburg   Fenerbahçe
2   ZVVZ USK Praha   Nadezhda Orenburg
3   Dynamo Kursk   Tango Bourges Basket
4   Villeneuve-d'Ascq   Wisła Can-Pack Kraków
5   Famila Schio   CB Avenida
6   Uniqa Sopron   BLMA
7   Mersin BŞB   CCC Polkowice
8   UNI Győr   Hatay BŞB

Regular season

edit
Location of teams of the 2016–17 Euroleague Women regular season.
  Green: Group A;   Red: Group B.

Regular season will start on October 26, 2016 and will finish on February 22, 2017.

The four top teams of each group will qualify to the quarterfinals.

If teams are level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

  1. Head-to-head record.
  2. Head-to-head point differential.
  3. Point differential during the Regular Season.
  4. Points scored during the regular season.
  5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season game.

Group A

edit
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification KUR FEN USK FAM BLM WIS MER UNI
1   Dynamo Kursk 14 14 0 1096 856 240 28 Advance to quarterfinals 86–79 69–66 70–64 65–43 96–59 73–67 90–55
2   Fenerbahçe 14 11 3 1010 916 94 25 69–72 75–71 77–64 69–63 71–60 75–52 66–53
3   ZVVZ USK Praha 14 9 5 1023 902 121 23 49–73 63–71 74–73 61–59 84–63 96–47 83–56
4   Famila Schio 14 7 7 1012 929 83 21 75–79 73–75 71–63 70–53 80–54 71–64 77–65
5   BLMA 14 7 7 869 917 −48 21 Transfer to EuroCup Women 50–88 58–56 55–58 69–66 74–68 76–63 69–50
6   Wisła Can-Pack Kraków 14 5 9 950 1009 −59 19 61–67 64–72 70–90 75–76 77–61 59–56 66–47
7   Mersin BŞB 14 2 12 906 1044 −138 16 Eliminated 70–84 73–89 69–75 65–61 68–74 74–83 65–74
8   UNI Győr 14 1 13 783 1076 −293 15 49–84 64–66 51–90 46–91 58–65 61–91 54–73
Source: FIBA.com

Group B

edit
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification EKA NAD AVE BOU HAT VIL SOP POL
1   UMMC Ekaterinburg 14 13 1 1190 900 290 27 Advance to quarterfinals 88–81 74–68 81–66 103–40 91–69 82–61 94–57
2   Nadezhda Orenburg 14 10 4 934 881 53 24 59–88 65–62 69–61 63–54 58–48 65–57 50–60
3   Perfumerías Avenida 14 7 7 999 938 61 21 83–72 49–64 63–50 92–62 79–70 84–67 81–60
4   Tango Bourges Basket 14 7 7 909 928 −19 21 63–97 58–60 69–63 68–55 63–42 80–59 65–60
5   Hatay BŞB 14 7 7 912 1005 −93 21 Transfer to EuroCup Women 64–73 58–70 68–64 69–51 76–81 74–66 58–54
6   Villeneuve-d'Ascq 14 6 8 969 1004 −35 20 69–88 83–71 69–68 74–81 71–72 78–63 75–55
7   Uniqa Sopron 14 4 10 975 1087 −112 18 Eliminated 56–82 69–89 77–68 77–69 95–98 62–72 76–64
8   CCC Polkowice 14 2 12 863 1008 −145 16 64–77 46–70 71–75 59–65 54–64 77–68 82–90
Source: FIBA.com

Quarter-finals

edit

In the quarter-finals, teams playing against each other had to win two games to win the series. Thus, if one team win two games, before all three games have been played, the game that remain is omitted.

} }
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg 3rd leg
Dynamo Kursk   2–0   Tango Bourges Basket 76–71 104–92
Fenerbahçe   2–1   Perfumerías Avenida 78–68 66–76 87–80
UMMC Ekaterinburg   2–0   Famila Schio 92–47 102–67
Nadezhda Orenburg   1–2   ZVVZ USK Praha 80–57 55–64 57–70

Final four

edit

Host Final Four – Yekaterinburg, Russia.[4]

 
Semifinals
April 14
Final
April 16
 
      
 
 
 
 
  Dynamo Kursk 87
 
 
 
  ZVVZ USK Praha 80
 
  Dynamo Kursk 77
 
 
 
  Fenerbahçe 63
 
  Fenerbahçe 70
 
 
  UMMC Ekaterinburg 61
 
Third place
 
 
 
 
 
  ZVVZ USK Praha 63
 
 
  UMMC Ekaterinburg 68

All times are local (UTC 5).

Semifinals

edit
14 April 2017
19:00
Fenerbahçe   70–61   UMMC Ekaterinburg
Scoring by quarter: 10–14, 18–19, 21–13, 21–15
Pts: Lavender 21
Rebs: Parker 15
Asts: Vardarlı 7
Pts: Taurasi 26
Rebs: Griner 7
Asts: four players 2
DIVS Sport Hall, Yekaterinburg
Attendance: 5,000
Referees:
Jasmina Juras (SRB)
Michele Rossi (ITA)
Marko Vučković (SLO)

14 April 2017
21:30
Dynamo Kursk   87–80 (OT)   ZVVZ USK Praha
Scoring by quarter: 24–26, 22–18, 14–17, 17–16, Overtime: 10–3
Pts: McCoughtry 28
Rebs: Vidmer 11
Asts: McCoughtry 5
Pts: Dupree 39
Rebs: Dupree 13
Asts: Palau 13
DIVS Sport Hall, Yekaterinburg
Attendance: 2,500
Referees:
Fabiana Martinescu-Badalan (ROM)
Janusz Calik (POL)
Artūras Šukys (LTU)

Third place game

edit
16 April 2017
16:30
ZVVZ USK Praha   63–68   UMMC Ekaterinburg
Scoring by quarter: 17–18, 20–14, 14–18, 12–18
Pts: Petrović 19
Rebs: three players 7
Asts: Palau 8
Pts: Toliver 18
Rebs: Meesseman 12
Asts: Barič 5
DIVS Sport Hall, Yekaterinburg
Attendance: 3,500
Referees:
Michele Rossi (ITA)
Artūras Šukys (LTU)
Vasiliki Tsaroucha (GRE)

Final

edit
16 April 2017
19:00
Dynamo Kursk   77–63   Fenerbahçe
Scoring by quarter: 17–18, 27–16, 18–21, 15–8
Pts: McCoughtry 20
Rebs: Ogwumike 10
Asts: Prince 7
Pts: Quigley 19
Rebs: Lavender 9
Asts: Quigley 3
DIVS Sport Hall, Yekaterinburg
Attendance: 3,500
Referees:
Jasmina Juras (SRB)
Fabiana Martinescu-Badalan (ROM)
Marko Vučković (SLO)


2016–17 EuroLeague Women Champions
 
Dynamo Kursk
First title

Statistical leaders

edit

Points

edit
Rk Name Team Games Points PPG
1   Yvonne Turner   Uniqa Sopron 13 244 18.8
2   Diana Taurasi   UMMC Ekaterinburg 15 269 17.9
3   Angel McCoughtry   Dynamo Kursk 18 311 17.3
4   Sonja Petrović   ZVVZ USK Praha 19 314 16.5
5   Gintarė Petronytė   Mersin BŞB 14 226 16.1

Rebounds

edit
Rk Name Team Games Rebounds RPG
1   Nneka Ogwumike   Dynamo Kursk 17 174 10.2
2   Amanda Zahui   Nadezhda Orenburg 16 149 9.3
3   Marija Režan   CCC Polkowice 14 118 8.4
4   Clarissa dos Santos   Tango Bourges Basket 13 107 8.2
5   Elizabeth Williams   Nadezhda Orenburg 17 134 7.9

Assists

edit
Rk Name Team Games Assists APG
1   Laia Palau   ZVVZ USK Praha 19 149 7.8
2   Nilay Kartaltepe   Mersin BŞB 14 82 5.9
3   Birsel Vardarlı   Fenerbahçe 19 111 5.8
4   Miljana Bojović   Tango Bourges Basket 16 90 5.6
5   Anna Cruz   Dynamo Kursk 17 94 5.5

See also

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ "Dynamo Kursk crowned EuroLeague Women champions for the first time". FIBA. 16 April 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  2. ^ "2016-17 EuroLeague Women and EuroCup Women clubs confirmed". FIBA Europe. 22 June 2016. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016.
  3. ^ EuroLeague Women and EuroCup Women draw seedings announced
  4. ^ Ekaterinburg to host EuroLeague Women Final Four
edit