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2002–03 ULEB Cup

ULEB Cup
Season 2002–03
Champions Spain Pamesa Valencia
(1st title)
Runners-up Slovenia Krka Novo Mesto
Teams 24 (competition proper)
Games played 150
Dates 15 October 2002 – 24 April 2003 (competition proper)
Awards
Finals MVP Serbia and Montenegro Dejan Tomašević
Statistical leaders
Index Rating Australia Chris Anstey
24.1
Points United States Jamie Arnold
20.3
Rebounds United States K'zell Wesson
12.7
Assists United States Scooter Barry
5.3

The 2002–03 ULEB Cup was the inaugural season of Europe's secondary level professional club basketball tournament, the ULEB Cup, which is organised by Euroleague Basketball. The 2003 ULEB Cup Finals were played between Pamesa Valencia and Krka Novo Mesto, and won by Valencia, their first title in a European-wide competition. As the winners of the 2002–03 ULEB Cup, Valencia qualified for the European top-tier level 2003–04 Euroleague.

A total of 24 teams, instead of the initial 32, participated in the 2002–03 ULEB Cup.

The table below shows the default access list.

League positions after Playoffs of the previous season shown in parentheses:

The schedule of the competition was as follows.

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The four first qualified teams advanced to the elimination rounds, while the two last teams were eliminated.

In the elimination rounds, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, with the overall cumulative score determining the winner of a round. Thus, the score of one single game can be tied.

In the draw for the elimination rounds, the four group winners and four group runners-up were seeded, and the four group third-placed teams and four group fourh-placed teams were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same country could not be drawn against each other.

Source: ULEB Cup

The first legs were played on 4 February, and the second legs were played on 11 February 2003.


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