BBL Cup 2016

The Beko BBL-Pokal 2016 was the seventh edition of the cup competition in the German men's basketball club as the league cup of the first national basketball league . The organization of this competition is subordinate to the League Association of the Basketball Bundesliga and determines the German cup winner in club basketball for men.

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The results in the first half of the Beko Basketball Bundesliga 2015/16 were decisive for qualifying for this competition . As in the previous year, a cup table was set up based on the results of the first half of the Bundesliga, in which the games of the host of the Final Fours were not taken into account. In addition to the automatically qualified host, the six best-placed teams in this cup table are also qualified. The pairings were determined by lottery, which also decided on the home right in the qualifying round. The winner or advancement in the competition was determined in the knockout system within a regular basketball game.

Event

The Bayern Munich qualified automatically as host to the Final Four. The three other places for the final tournament were played on January 23 and 24, 2016. Defending champion (TV) EWE Baskets Oldenburg was able to qualify again for the competition, but was eliminated in the quarter-finals before reaching the TOP FOUR.

The Final Four final tournament, called TOP FOUR , took place on February 21 and 22, 2016 in the Audi Dome in Munich .

Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
H	host
2 *	FC Bayern Munich
					2 *	FC Bayern Munich	86
					1	Brose Baskets	79
4th	MHP giant Ludwigsburg	58
1	Brose Baskets	71								Endgame
										2 *	FC Bayern Munich	65
										2	Alba Berlin	67
3	Fraport Skyliners	80
5	EWE Baskets (TV)	68
					3	Fraport Skyliners	76
					2	Alba Berlin	79			3rd place match
2	Alba Berlin	102								1	Brose Baskets	/ y
6th	s.Oliver Baskets	73								3	Skyliners Frankfurt	/

^* Placement according to the first round table of the basketball Bundesliga. For the other teams, the placement of the cup table is given.
^y Due to water damage on the day of the final, the hall was not available in time, so the “small final” was canceled without replacement.

Winning team

Squad of Alba Berlin in the 2016 season (Cup)

player No. Nat. Surname birth size info Last club Guards ( PG , SG ) 6th Rob Lowery December 23, 1987 1.88 m  Nea Kifissia 8th / İsmet Akpınar 05/22/1995 1.90 m 11 / Akeem Vargas 04/29/1990 1.92 m A-Nat. 22nd Will Cherry 02/08/1991 1.85 m  Žalgiris Kaunas 23 Jordan Taylor 09/30/1989 1.85 m  Hapoel Holon Forwards ( SF , PF ) 7th / Alex King 02/20/1985 2.00 m / A-Nat. 15th Marc Liyanage 02/09/1990 1.98 m Central German BC 21st Dragan Milosavljevic 05/11/1989 1.98 m A-Nat.  KK Partizan Belgrade 32 Robert Glöckner 08/09/1996 2.02 m 50 Mitchell Watts 12/14/1989 2.08 m  Ironi Nes Ziona Center ( C ) 9 Elmedin Kikanović 09/02/1988 2.11 m A-Nat.  SLUC Nancy Basket 10 Krešimir Lončar 02/12/1983 2.08 m  Valencia Basket Club 18th Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann 02/20/1990 2.08 m

Trainer Nat. Surname position Saša Obradović Head coach Milenko Bogićević Assistant coach Thomas Päch Assistant coach Legend Abbr. meaning Team captain injured in the final A-Nat. National player (first country) italic Working time in the VF swell Team homepage League homepage As of February 21, 2016

The squad also included the long-term injured Niels Giffey and the unassigned Jannes Hundt, Tim Schneider, Benedikt Turudić and Ferdinand Zylka.

See also

• German Cup Winner (Basketball)
• List of results of the BBL Top Four

Web links

• 1967 to today: an overview of the cup competition. On: Easy-Credit-Basketball-Bundesliga website; Cologne, undated in 2018. Retrieved on February 6, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beko BBL TOP FOUR: Final takes place / game for third place does not take place. Basketball Bundesliga , February 21, 2016, accessed on February 21, 2016 (media info).