Eurocup: 2013-14 season tips off with 48 teams

The new season of Eurocup competition opened on Tuesday with major structural changes designed to get more teams involved and give those teams, and a few other friends, additional competition. With the addition of 16 teams, the Eurocup organizers also implemented geographically-based groups and then divided those groups into two ‘Conferences’. Their plan was to…

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Euroleague: New rule changes to take effect

Both the Euroleague and the Eurocup will see changes to some of its rules this upcoming 2013-14 season. According to the Turkish Airlines Euroleague website: …a series of rule changes designed to make the game faster, clearer, fairer and more spectacular for participants and fans will take effect in both competitions. The effects of the…

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Davin White signed by Lukoil Academic

Bulgarian powerhouse Lukoil Academic Sofia have added veteran Davin White (186 cm, CS Northridge’05) for the 2013-14 season. The 31-year-old White played in Germany’s BBL for Phoenix Hagen in 2012-13. He played in 36 games for them and averaged 17.2 ppg and 4.2 apg. In 2011-12 Davin suited up for Halcones UV Xalapa from Mexico’s…

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Eurocup now open to 48 teams

Next season’s Eurocup will go through a change in format as the competition announced today that the number of teams will be increased from 32 to 48. The decision has been made to bring “more games and more excitement” to the 12th edition of the competition by increasing the Regular Season roster of teams to…

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Lokomotiv Kuban wins Eurocup

PBC Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar is the 2012/13 Eurocup champion! Lokomotiv conquered its first-ever continental trophy by downing Uxue Bilbao Basket from Spain with 64-75 in the Eurocup Final at the

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EuroCup: Uxue Bilbao – Lokomotiv Kuban Final

The finals of the 2012-13 EuroCup have now been set as Uxue Bilbao Baskets and Lokomotiv Kuban came out on top in their respective semifinal matchups and will now play April 13th for the title. Bilbao took both semifinal games with BC Budivelnik Kiev to qualify for the finals, and Kuban split their two-game series…

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EuroCup: Visitors rule Game 1 of semifinals

The 2013 EuroCup competition entered into its semifinal round on Wednesday with Game 1 of both legs being contested. It was a night for the traveling teams as both games ended up going to the visitors by 10 points, setting up Game 2 in each semifinal series on the home courts of the series leaders.…

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EuroCup: Semifinals matchups are now set

The remaining competitors in the 2012-13 EuroCup completed one more round Wednesday on their way to determining an overall champion. The four quarterfinal matchups finished their second games and with the scores compiled, the four clubs that are moving on to the semifinals have been set. In semifinal A, BC Budivelnik Kiev will play Uxue…

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