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Euroleague Top 16 round: 10 must-see games (plus Fearless Predictions™)
With another week to kill before the Euroleague Top 16 round begins, BallinEurope is marking up the calendar to note must-see teevee for January to March, getting out the red pens and awaiting the following matchups. January 19: Real Madrid vs. Partizan Belgrade January 19: Efes Pilsen Istanbul vs. Montepaschi Siena. Wow, Group G is […]
Sixty-eight Fearless Predictions™ for 2010-11 Euroleague season
With the EL tipoff game tonight, BallinEurope is feeling devotion … not to mention a rush of Fearless Predictions™ coming on. How crazy can BiE get? You be the judge; here are 68 prognostications on all things Euroleague which you may [laugh uproariously about] ponder. Enjoy the season, everyone! (And sign up for the BallinEurope […]
The Frank Euroleague roundup: Top 16, week four
The critical week four of Euroleague Top 16 action is in the books, but Ball in Europe’s man in Italy, Francesco Cappelletti, is still musing on the shifts ‘n’ events thanks to these eight games. This week’s frank roundup wishes Panathinaikos bye-bye, gives mucho deserved props to Pini Gershon, and bestows an “accolade” upon Zabian […]
Euroleague Top 16 draw: The Frank take
The Euroleague Top 16 group draw was orientated, due to the guidelines, well before it started. So, while Group G and Group H were fixed, it remained to see where Maccabi Tel Aviv and Efes Pilsen Istanbul would be directed: to the Barcelona-Panathinaikos group or the Real Madrid-Montepaschi gang. The two teams went into the […]
European basketball calendar: January 2010 (update)
Now that some more European basketball competitions, including the Euroleague, EuroChallenge and FIBA Eurocup Women are moving into a second phase, Ball in Europe presents an updated January calendar for your perusal. A new edition of the calendar will be published in February. In the immediate short-term, don’t forget about the Euroleague group draw which […]
Euroleague Top 16 groupings completed
Hot off the big board in Barcelona, then: Here’s how today’s draw for Euroleague Top 16 groupings panned out. In Group E, it’s Regal FC Barcelona, Panathinaikos Athen, Partizan Belgrade and Maroussi BC. In Group F, Real Madrid, Montepaschi Siena, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Efes Pilsen Istanbul In Group G, CSKA Moscow, Unicaja, Zalgiris Kaunas […]
A legend goes down
With a 95-88 defeat this Tuesday against Cholet Basket, Elan Bearnais Pau-Lacq-Orthez has definitely been relegated to the ProB, the French second division. After 35 years of playing first-division basketball in the Bearn region, the team must now play one division lower and several levels lower than it was used to in previous years.
A SICK Euroleague Top16 draw: LIVE
The so called season of the Euroleague is over – Yes my dear Americans, when the NBA is not even at the All Star break, we are almost done here! Just kidding. Next is the Euroleague Top 16 where we again will have groups but with only … 16 Teams. At 1pm CET, the Euroleague […]
Attendance figures for European competitions
After we have talked already about attendance of the different leagues, we take a closer look at the three main European competitions and their attendance figures.