2015–16 EuroLeague Women

EuroLeague Women
Season2015–16
Duration14 October 2015 — 17 April 2016
Games played125
Teams16 (Regular Season)
Finals
Champions UMMC Ekaterinburg
Runners-up Nadezhda Orenburg
Third place Fenerbahçe
Fourth place ZVVZ USK Praha
Finals MVPDiana Taurasi

The 2015–16 EuroLeague Women season is the 20th edition of EuroLeague Women under its current name.

Teams

Teams and seedings were unveiled by FIBA Europe on 3 July 2015.[1]

Regular season
UMMC Ekaterinburg (1st) AGÜ Spor (2nd) ZVVZ USK Praha (1st) Good Angels Košice (1st)
Nadezhda Orenburg (2nd) Fenerbahçe (3rd) Wisła Can-Pack Kraków (1st) Famila Schio (1st)
Dynamo Kursk (3rd) Tango Bourges Basket (1st) Uniqa Sopron (1st) Mithra Castors Braine (1st)
Galatasaray Odeabank (1st) Villeneuve-d'Ascq (2nd) Spar CityLift Girona (1st)
Qualification round
CB Avenida (2nd) BK Zabiny Brno (2nd)

Draw

17 teams registered for EuroLeague Women 2015–16,[2] resulting in 15 direct qualifiers, and one preliminary round to be played between BK Brno and CB Avenida.[3] However, on August 6, BK Brno announced its withdrawal from European competitions due to financial reasons, automatically qualifying Perfumerías Avenida to the Regular Season[4]

Seed Regular Season
1 UMMC Ekaterinburg Fenerbahçe
2 Galatasaray ZVVZ USK Praha
3 Tango Bourges Basket Dynamo Kursk
4 Good Angels Košice Nadezhda Orenburg
5 AGÜ Spor Famila Schio
6 Wisła Can-Pack Kraków Villeneuve-d'Ascq
7 Uniqa Sopron Mithra Castors Braine
8 Spar CityLift Girona QR Winner

Regular season

Location of teams of the 2015–16 Euroleague Women regular season.
Green: Group A; Red: Group B.

Regular season will start on October 14 and will finish on February 10, 2016.

The four top teams of each group will qualify to the quarterfinals.

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

  1. Head-to-head record.
  2. Head-to-head point differential.
  3. Point differential during the Regular Season.
  4. Points scored during the regular season.
  5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season game.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification FEN FAM KUR GAL KOŠ VIL AVE SOP
1 Fenerbahçe 14 12 2 927 834 +93 26 Advance to quarterfinals — 60 – 66 66 – 56 57 – 56 62 – 45 77 – 54 64 – 59 86 – 69
2 Famila Schio 14 10 4 1022 892 +130 24 62 – 64 — 79 – 72 64 – 70 89 – 63 75 – 57 88 – 70 97 – 61
3 Dynamo Kursk 14 10 4 1012 855 +157 24 72 – 40 63 – 58 — 75 – 60 70 – 49 66 – 49 77 – 64 98 – 63
4 Galatasaray Odeabank 14 9 5 889 829 +60 23 60 – 71 58 – 75 62 – 55 — 69 – 57 59 – 35 61 – 59 81 – 56
5 Good Angels Košice 14 5 9 869 893 −24 19 Transfer to EuroCup Women 58 – 67 56 – 69 53 – 64 54 – 49 — 55 – 60 66 – 47 81 – 53
6 Villeneuve-d'Ascq 14 5 9 842 920 −78 19 55 – 69 70 – 73 78 – 70 62 – 66 48 – 78 — 78 – 66 78 – 44
7 Perfumerías Avenida 14 4 10 902 945 −43 18 Eliminated 70 – 75 63 – 52 66 – 72 49 – 62 76 – 68 72 – 49 — 74 – 60
8 Uniqa Sopron 14 1 13 844 1139 −295 15 52 – 69 65 – 75 68 – 102 60 – 76 70 – 86 50 – 69 73 – 67 —
Updated to match(es) played on 10 February 2016. Source: FibaEurope.com

Group B

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification EKA NAD USK WIS BOU AGÜ BRA GIR
1 UMMC Ekaterinburg 14 12 2 1050 854 +196 26 Advance to quarterfinals — 74 – 84 76 – 73 89 – 48 69 – 63 93 – 48 75 – 70 80 – 61
2 Nadezhda Orenburg 14 9 5 907 844 +63 23 54 – 64 — 58 – 54 67 – 70 66 – 58 68 – 61 63 – 70 65 – 41
3 ZVVZ USK Praha 14 8 6 937 826 +111 22 52 – 69 67 – 59 — 64 – 40 63 – 49 68 – 72 75 – 58 68 – 43
4 Wisła Can-Pack Kraków 14 7 7 824 945 −121 21 52 – 88 54 – 51 57 – 78 — 66 – 64 67 – 66 69 – 76 54 – 46
5 Tango Bourges Basket 14 6 8 842 841 +1 20 Transfer to EuroCup Women 58 – 65 61 – 71 65 – 75 63 – 45 — 63 – 57 57 – 52 68 – 47
6 AGÜ Spor 14 5 9 902 958 −56 19 68 – 54 67 – 75 77 – 75 66 – 68 55 – 62 — 60 – 56 79 – 69
7 Mithra Castors Braine 14 5 9 868 946 −78 19 Eliminated 52 – 78 47 – 67 49 – 73 65 – 74 63 – 55 68 – 64 — 73 – 60
8 Spar CityLift Girona 14 4 10 805 921 −116 18 71 – 76 56 – 59 54 – 52 62 – 60 47 – 56 72 – 62 76 – 69 —
Updated to match(es) played on 10 February 2016. Source:

Quarter-finals

Quarter-finals will be played on March 8, 11 and 16, 2016.

Team #1 Agg. Team #2 1st 2nd 3rd
Fenerbahçe 2–0 Wisła Can-Pack Kraków 79–70 79–63
Famila Schio 0–2 ZVVZ USK Praha 56–68 53–86
UMMC Ekaterinburg 2–1 Galatasaray Odeabank 72–56 57–66 86–66
Nadezhda Orenburg 2–0 Dynamo Kursk 78–68 73–70

Final Four

The Final Four will be played on April 15 and 17, 2016.

 
Semi-finals
15 April		Final
17 April
 
      
 
 
 
 
 Fenerbahçe 68
 
 
 
 Nadezhda Orenburg 74
 
 Nadezhda Orenburg 69
 
 
 
 UMMC Ekaterinburg 72
 
 ZVVZ USK Praha 72
 
 
 UMMC Ekaterinburg 78
 
Third place
 
 
 
 
 
 Fenerbahçe 73
 
 
 ZVVZ USK Praha 69

All times are local (UTC+3).

Semifinals

15 April 2016
17:00
ZVVZ USK Praha 72–78 UMMC Ekaterinburg
Scoring by quarter: 13–14, 9–19, 12–13, 38–32
Pts: Petrović, Šteinberga 21
Rebs: Šteinberga 10
Asts: Palau 8		 Pts: Taurasi 21
Rebs: Lyttle, Meesseman 9
Asts: three players 3
Fenerbahce Ulker Arena, Istanbul
Attendance: 500
Referees:
Anne Panther (GER)
Manuel Mazzoni (ITA)
Georgios Poursanidis (GRE)
15 April 2016
20:00
Fenerbahçe 68–74 Nadezhda Orenburg
Scoring by quarter: 16–18, 12–18, 12–17, 28–21
Pts: Lavender 24
Rebs: Lavender 11
Asts: Vardarlı 6		 Pts: Bonner 20
Rebs: Bonner 8
Asts: Cruz 4
Fenerbahce Ulker Arena, Istanbul
Attendance: 4,252
Referees:
Dragan Neskovic (SRB)
Andris Aunkrogers (LAT)
Milan Nedović (SLO)

Third place game

17 April 2016
14:00
Fenerbahçe 73–69 ZVVZ USK Praha
Scoring by quarter: 18–24, 19–10, 12–16, 24–19
Pts: Quigley 22
Rebs: Hollingsworth 8
Asts: three players 3		 Pts: Vaughn 17
Rebs: Petrović 10
Asts: Palau 6
Fenerbahce Ulker Arena, Istanbul
Attendance: 2,678
Referees:
Dragan Neskovic (SRB)
Anne Panther (GER)
Andrada Monika Csender (ROU)

Final

17 April 2016
17:00
Nadezhda Orenburg 69–72 UMMC Ekaterinburg
Scoring by quarter: 19–17, 21–16, 16–15, 13–24
Pts: Bonner 26
Rebs: Robinson 10
Asts: Cruz 5		 Pts: Taurasi 22
Rebs: Lyttle 12
Asts: Toliver 5
Fenerbahce Ulker Arena, Istanbul
Attendance: 1,264
Referees:
Manuel Mazzoni (ITA)
Georgios Poursanidis (GRE)
Milan Nedović (SLO)


2015–16 EuroLeague Women Champions

UMMC Ekaterinburg
Third title

Statistical leaders

Points

Rk Name Team Games Points PPG
1 Diana Taurasi UMMC Ekaterinburg 19 397 20.9
2 Nneka Ogwumike Dynamo Kursk 16 283 17.7
3 DeWanna Bonner Nadezhda Orenburg 18 313 17.4
4 Lara Sanders AGÜ Spor 13 205 15.8
Sonja Petrović ZVVZ USK Praha 13 205 15.8

Rebounds

Rk Name Team Games Rebounds RPG
1 Crystal Langhorne Good Angels Košice 14 151 10.8
2 DeWanna Bonner Nadezhda Orenburg 18 169 9.4
3 Lara Sanders AGÜ Spor 13 118 9.1
4 Nneka Ogwumike Dynamo Kursk 16 142 8.9
5 Kia Vaughn ZVVZ USK Praha 18 159 8.8

Assists

Rk Name Team Games Assists APG
1 Laia Palau ZVVZ USK Praha 18 128 7.1
2 Marjorie Carpréaux Mithra Castors Braine 14 75 5.4
3 Silvia Domínguez Perfumerías Avenida 14 73 5.2
4 Chelsea Gray Spar CityLift Girona 10 52 5.2
5 Işıl Alben Galatasaray OdeaBank 17 87 5.1

See also

References

  1. ^ "EuroLeague, EuroCup Women draw seedings announced". FIBA Europe. 3 July 2015.
  2. ^ "EuroLeague Women groups mostly determined even before draw". Archived from the original on 2015-07-02. Retrieved 2015-07-01.
  3. ^ "EuroLeague Women draw seedings changed, Perfumerias Avenida in qualifier against Brno". Archived from the original on 2015-07-06. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
  4. ^ BK Zabiny Brno withdraw from European competition
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