2016–17 EuroCup Basketball
The 2016–17 EuroCup Basketball season, also known as 7DAYS EuroCup, for sponsorship reasons, was the 15th season of Euroleague Basketball's secondary level professional club basketball tournament. It was the ninth season since it was renamed from the ULEB Cup to the EuroCup, and the first season under the title sponsorship name of 7DAYS.
| 7DAYS EuroCup1 | |||||||||||||
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| Season | 2016–17 | ||||||||||||
| Duration | 12 October 2016 – 5 April 2017 (competition proper) | ||||||||||||
| Number of games | 146 | ||||||||||||
| Number of teams | 20 (competition proper) | ||||||||||||
| Regular season | |||||||||||||
| Season MVP | Alexey Shved | ||||||||||||
| Finals | |||||||||||||
| Champions | Unicaja (1st title) | ||||||||||||
| Runners-up | Valencia Basket | ||||||||||||
| Semifinalists | Lokomotiv Kuban Hapoel Jerusalem | ||||||||||||
| Finals MVP | Alberto Díaz | ||||||||||||
| Awards | |||||||||||||
| Coach of the Year | Pedro Martínez | ||||||||||||
| Rising Star | Rolands Šmits | ||||||||||||
| Statistical leaders | |||||||||||||
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| Records | |||||||||||||
| Biggest home win | Valencia Basket 95–58 ratiopharm Ulm (12 October 2016) | ||||||||||||
| Biggest away win | Nizhny Novgorod 63–97 Lietuvos rytas (17 January 2017) | ||||||||||||
| Highest scoring | Alba Berlin 124–115 Lietuvos rytas (2 November 2016) | ||||||||||||
| Winning streak | 13 games Valencia Basket | ||||||||||||
| Losing streak | 8 games Budućnost VOLI MZT Skopje Aerodrom | ||||||||||||
| Highest attendance | 10,367 Unicaja 79–71 Valencia Basket (31 March 2017) | ||||||||||||
| Lowest attendance | 80 Budućnost VOLI 95–97 Zenit Saint Petersburg (7 December 2016) | ||||||||||||
| Total attendance | 628,354 | ||||||||||||
| Average attendance | 4,304 | ||||||||||||
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All statistics correct as of 5 April 2017.1 Sponsored name, referring to 7DAYS. | |||||||||||||
The 2017 EuroCup Finals were played between Unicaja and Valencia Basket, and won by Unicaja, which was their first EuroCup title, and their second title overall in a European-wide competition, after they previously won the FIBA Korać Cup 16 years earlier. As the winners of the 2016–17 EuroCup Basketball competition, Unicaja qualified for the European top-tier level 2017–18 EuroLeague season.
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