1973–74 FIBA Korać Cup | |
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League | FIBA Korać Cup |
Sport | Basketball |
Finals | |
Champions | Forst Cantù |
Runners-up | Partizan |
The 1973–74 FIBA Korać Cup was the third edition of FIBA's new competition, running from 6 November 1973 to 11 April 1974. It was contested by 37 teams, twenty-five more than in the previous edition.
Forst Cantù defeated Partizan in the final to become the competition's first back-to-back champion.
*Originally, AEK and 1.FC Bamberg were drawn to play against the Israeli teams Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Ramat Gan, respectively, but FIBA cancelled these match-ups and declared the former clubs winners.
**Soma Wien withdrew before the first leg and HAN Thessaloniki received a forfeit (2-0) in both games.
The round of 12 were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.
Tie-Break
At the end of the group stage there was a triple tie in the final standing: Innocenti Milano qualified last as the team with the worst basket average, whereas ASVEL and AŠK Olimpija had to play a tie-break (not included in the final classification) in order to decide the group winner.