2000–01 FIBA Saporta Cup explained

The 2000–01 FIBA Saporta Cup was the thirty-fifth edition of FIBA's 2nd-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition. It occurred between October 17, 2000, and April 17, 2001. The final was held at Hala Torwar, Warsaw, Poland.

Competition system

24 teams (national domestic cup champions, plus the best qualified teams in the most important European national domestic leagues), entered a preliminary group stage, divided into four groups of six teams each, playing a round-robin. The final standing were based on individual wins and defeats. In case of a tie between two or more teams, after the group stage, the following criteria were used to decide the final classification: 1) number of wins in one-to-one games between the teams; 2) basket average between the teams; 3) general basket average within the group.
The top four teams from each group qualified for a 1/8 Final Playoff (X-pairings, home and away games), while the winners advanced further to 1/4 Finals and 1/2 Finals.
The Final was played at a predetermined venue.

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

Regular season
width=210	Paris Basket Racing (6th)	width=210	Pınar Karşıyaka (4th)	width=210	Keravnos Keo (1st)	width=210	Anwil Włocławek (2nd)
width=210	Élan Chalon (8th)	width=210	Beşiktaş (5th)	width=210	Namika Lahti (1st)	width=210	Porto (CW)
width=210	Aris (8th)	width=210	Arkadia Traiskirchen Lions (1st)	width=210	Telekom Baskets Bonn (4th)	width=210	UNICS (3rd)
width=210	Maroussi (10th)	width=210	Telindus Racing Antwerpen (1st)	width=210	Hapoel Galil Elyon (4th)	width=210	Slovakofarma Pezinok (1st)
width=210	Caja San Fernando (5th)	width=210	Borac Banja Luka (1st)	width=210	Lineltex AC Imola (12th)*	width=210	Pivovarna Laško (2nd)
width=210	Pamesa Valencia (6th)	width=210	Zagreb (4th)	width=210	Sakalai (4th)	width=210	Crvena zvezda (3rd)

*As a substitute for Olimpia Milano which team withdrew from competition

Aris didn't play the second leg because its players were on strike for not getting their salaries and Maroussi received a forfeit (20–0) in this game.

- The original second leg was suspended after several players of Telindus Racing Antwerpen and Crvena zvezda were disqualified. Later, FIBA decided that his game should be replayed a week later behind closed doors to avoid further incidents, but the Yugoslavian team didn't show up for the match and Telindus received a forfeit (20–0).