2012–13 Baltic Basketball League

2012–13 Baltic Basketball League
2012–13 Baltic Basketball League
Season	2012–13
Duration	October 1, 2012 – April 6, 2013
Games played	174
Teams	23
TV partner(s)	Viasat Sport Baltic
Regular season
Season MVP	Gediminas Orelik
Finals
Champions	Ventspils (1st title)
Runners-up	Prienai
Third place	Kalev/Cramo
Fourth place	Barons kvartāls
Finals MVP	Jānis Timma
Statistical leaders
Points
Points	Māris Gulbis
Rebounds	Tyler Cain
Assists	Augustas Pečiukevičius
	← 2011–12 2013–14 → All statistics correct as of September 17, 2014.

The 2012–13 Baltic Basketball League was the 9th season of the Baltic Basketball League.

The Challenge Cup tournament was discontinued and the new format featured 23 teams – 9 from Lithuania, 8 from Estonia, 5 from Latvia and 1 from Kazakhstan. For the Regular season the teams were divided into three groups of six and one group of five.^[1] Top four teams of each group advanced to Last 16 where they were divided into four groups. Two best teams of each group advanced to the play-offs. All play-off games were played in home-and-away series.^[2]

Ventspils became the first ever Latvian team to win the tournament by beating Lithuanian side Prienai 161–142 on aggregate score in the finals.^[3] Kalev/Cramo from Estonia won their first Baltic League medal by downing Latvian side Barons kvartāls 144–137 in the bronze medal playoffs.

Teams

Key to colors
Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Quarterfinalist	Last 16	Regular season

Country (League)	Teams	Teams (rankings in 2011–12 national championships)
Lithuania (LKL)	9	Prienai (3)	Šiauliai (4)	Pieno žvaigždės (5)	Nevėžis (7)	LSU/Baltai (8)	Juventus (9)	Sakalai (10)	Lietkabelis (11)	Palanga/Triobet (12)
Estonia (KML)	8	Kalev/Cramo (1)	Tartu Ülikool/Rock (2)	Rakvere Tarvas (3)	TYCO Rapla (4)	TTÜ KK (5)	Tallinna Kalev (6)	KK Pärnu (7)	Valga/Maks & Moorits (8)
Latvia (LBL)	5	Ventspils (2)	Liepāja/Triobet (3)	Valmiera (5)	Jelgava (6)	Barons kvartāls (LBL2 1)
Kazakhstan (D1)	1	Barsy Atyrau (2)

Regular season

Kalev/Cramo
TTÜ KK
Kalev

Location of teams of the Regular season in 2012–13 Baltic Basketball League.

Barsy Atyrau

Location of teams of the Regular season in 2012–13 Baltic Basketball League.

The Regular season ran from October 1, 2012 to December 18, 2012.

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

Head-to-head record.
Head-to-head point differential.
Point differential during the Regular season.
Points scored during the Regular season.
Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular season match.

Key to colors
	Top four places in each group advance to Last 16
	Eliminated

Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts
1.	Ventspils	10	10	0	811	595	+216	20
2.	Šiauliai	10	8	2	881	660	+221	18
3.	Palanga/Triobet	10	5	5	673	790	–117	15
4.	Barsy Atyrau	10	4	6	763	795	–32	14
5.	TTÜ KK	10	2	8	665	773	–108	12
6.	TYCO Rapla	10	1	9	692	872	–180	11

Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts	Tie-break
1.	Tartu Ülikool/Rock	10	9	1	919	696	+223	19
2.	Lietkabelis	10	8	2	811	727	+84	18
3.	Juventus	10	5	5	845	830	+15	15
4.	Jelgava	10	4	6	791	864	–73	14
5.	Liepāja/Triobet	10	2	8	695	790	–95	12	1–1 (+27)
6.	Valga/Maks & Moorits	10	2	8	666	820	–154	12	1–1 (–27)

Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts	Tie-break
1.	Prienai	10	10	0	915	672	+243	20
2.	Rakvere Tarvas	10	5	5	792	819	–27	15	3–1
3.	Barons kvartāls	10	5	5	759	814	–55	15	2–2
4.	Sakalai	10	5	5	779	764	+15	15	1–3
5.	Nevėžis	10	4	6	768	732	+36	14
6.	Tallinna Kalev	10	1	9	664	876	–212	11

Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts
1.	Pieno žvaigždės	8	8	0	693	551	+142	16
2.	Kalev/Cramo	8	6	2	616	556	+60	14
3.	Valmiera	8	3	5	595	636	–41	11
4.	KK Pärnu	8	2	6	573	630	–57	10
5.	LSU/Baltai	8	1	7	542	646	–104	9

Last 16

The Last 16 phase ran from January 8, 2013 to February 26, 2013.

If teams are level on record at the end of the Last 16 phase, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

Head-to-head record.
Head-to-head point differential.
Point differential during the Last 16 phase.
Points scored during the Last 16 phase.
Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Last 16 phase match.

Key to colors
	Top two teams in each group advance to quarterfinals.
	Eliminated

Group E

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts	Tie-break
1.	Ventspils	6	5	1	480	386	+94	11	1–1 (+20)
2.	Barons kvartāls	6	5	1	443	436	+7	11	1–1 (–20)
3.	KK Pärnu	6	1	5	474	506	–32	7	1–1 (+21)
4.	Lietkabelis	6	1	5	443	512	–69	7	1–1 (–21)

Group F

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts	Tie-break
1.	Tartu Ülikool/Rock	6	4	2	485	410	+75	10	1–1 (0) ^[a]
2.	Šiauliai	6	4	2	500	469	+31	10	1–1 (0) ^[a]
3.	Valmiera	6	3	3	416	419	–3	9
4.	Sakalai	6	1	5	380	483	–103	7

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head record and head-to-head point differential were equal, therefore overall point differential in Last 16 phase was used to determine the group winner

Group G

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts	Tie-break
1.	Prienai	6	5	1	535	443	+92	11	1–1 (+9)
2.	Kalev/Cramo	6	5	1	495	421	+74	11	1–1 (–9)
3.	Jelgava	6	2	4	508	588	–80	8
4.	Palanga/Triobet	6	0	6	477	563	–86	6

Group H

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts	Tie-break
1.	Pieno žvaigždės	6	4	2	509	451	+58	10	2–2 (+7)
2.	Rakvere Tarvas	6	4	2	533	489	+44	10	2–2 (+4)
3.	Juventus	6	4	2	547	505	+42	10	2–2 (–11)
4.	Barsy Atyrau	6	0	6	432	576	–144	6

Play-offs

In the knockout phase rounds will be played in a home-and-away format, with the overall cumulative score determining the winner of a round. Thus, the score of one single game can be tied.

Bracket

Quarterfinals March 5, 2013 – March 12, 2013					Semifinals March 18, 2013 - March 22, 2013					Finals April 2, 2013 – April 6, 2013

E1	Ventspils	78	87	165

F2	Šiauliai	81	80	161
					E1	Ventspils	61	78	139

					G2	Kalev/Cramo	64	65	129
G2	Kalev/Cramo	71	79	150

H1	Pieno žvaigždės	54	82	136
										E1	Ventspils	91	70	161

										G1	Prienai	69	73	142
E2	Barons kvartāls	63	89	152

F1	Tartu Ülikool/Rock	49	100	149
					E2	Barons kvartāls	73	80	153	Third place

					G1	Prienai	76	110	186
G1	Prienai	108	110	218						E2	Barons kvartāls	79	58	137

H2	Rakvere Tarvas	72	89	161						G2	Kalev/Cramo	71	73	144

Finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ventspils	161–142	Prienai	91–69	70–73

Game 1

2 April 2013

Boxscore

Prienai	69–91	Ventspils
Scoring by quarter: 17–23, 20–29, 17–15, 15–24
Pts: Orelik 15 Rebs: Urbutis 4 Asts: Kadžiulis 4		Pts: Campbell 23 Rebs: Campbell 8 Asts: Campbell 5

Prienai Arena, Prienai

Game 2

6 April 2013

Boxscore

Ventspils	70–73	Prienai
Pts: Timma 15 Rebs: Sims 5 Asts: Campbell 5		Pts: Vene, Kadžiulis 15 Rebs: Valeika 9 Asts: Three players, 3

Ventspils Olympic Center, Ventspils

Baltic Basketball League 2013 Champions
Ventspils 1st title

Individual statistics

Players qualify to this category by having at least 50% games played. Statistics include only Regular Season games.
Source: Baltic Basketball League player statistics

Efficiency

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Efficiency	EFF
1.	Rain Raadik	KK Pärnu	14	307	21.93
2.	Gediminas Orelik	Prienai	16	333	20.81
3.	Tyler Cain	Barons kvartāls	8	165	20.63
4.	Emmanuel Okoye	Tallinna Kalev	10	206	20.60
5.	Jānis Bērziņš	Valmiera	14	280	20.00

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1.	Māris Gulbis	Barons kvartāls	15	281	18.73
2.	Reimo Tamm	Rakvere Tarvas	16	279	17.44
3.	Rain Raadik	KK Pärnu	14	244	17.43
4.	Emmanuel Okoye	Tallinna Kalev	10	174	17.40
5.	Gediminas Orelik	Prienai	16	276	17.25

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rebounds	RPG
1.	Tyler Cain	Barons kvartāls	8	90	11.25
2.	Rain Raadik	KK Pärnu	14	151	10.79
3.	Emmanuel Okoye	Tallinna Kalev	10	100	10.00
4.	Frank Elegar	Kalev/Cramo	10	98	9.80
5.	Jānis Bērziņš	Valmiera	14	110	7.86

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1.	Augustas Pečiukevičius	KK Pärnu	14	80	5.71
2.	Žygimantas Janavičius	Prienai	9	51	5.67
3.	Marc Campbell	Tallinna Kalev	10	50	5.00
4.	Mindaugas Stasys	LSU/Baltai	7	32	4.57
5.	Jokūbas Gintvainis	Sakalai	16	72	4.50

Awards

MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team	Ref.
October 2012	Darrick Leonard	Juventus	[1]
November 2012	Reimo Tamm	Rakvere Tarvas	[2]
December 2012	Māris Gulbis	Barons kvartāls	[3]
January 2013	Jānis Bērziņš	Valmiera	[4]
February 2013	Brandis Raley-Ross	Rakvere Tarvas	[5]

Last updated: March 5, 2013.
Source: BBL Homepage

References

^ "The grouping of BBL Regular season 2012/2013". BBL Homepage (2012-09-19). Retrieved on 2013-02-28
^ "Competition system Archived 2013-02-12 at the Wayback Machine". BBL Homepage. Retrieved on 2013-02-28
^ "Ventspils lift BBL trophy Archived 2013-09-16 at the Wayback Machine". BBL Homepage (2012-04-06). Retrieved on 2013-04-06
^ ^a ^b "BBL 2012/13 Awards". BBL Homepage (2013-03-03). Retrieved on 2013-03-05
^ "Timma: "The MVP award made the victory even sweeter" Archived 2013-09-16 at the Wayback Machine". BBL Homepage (2012-04-21). Retrieved on 2013-05-02

External links

Official website

[note_a-4] Head-to-head record and head-to-head point differential were equal, therefore overall point differential in Last 16 phase was used to determine the group winner

[1] "The grouping of BBL Regular season 2012/2013". BBL Homepage (2012-09-19). Retrieved on 2013-02-28

[2] "Competition system Archived 2013-02-12 at the Wayback Machine". BBL Homepage. Retrieved on 2013-02-28

[3] "Ventspils lift BBL trophy Archived 2013-09-16 at the Wayback Machine". BBL Homepage (2012-04-06). Retrieved on 2013-04-06

[awards-5] "BBL 2012/13 Awards". BBL Homepage (2013-03-03). Retrieved on 2013-03-05

[6] "Timma: "The MVP award made the victory even sweeter" Archived 2013-09-16 at the Wayback Machine". BBL Homepage (2012-04-21). Retrieved on 2013-05-02

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