2014–15 BIBL season

2014–15 BIBL
2014–15 BIBL
Season	2014–15
Teams	10
Finals
Champions	KB Prishtina
Runners-up	Rilski Sportist
	← 2013–14 2015–16 →

In the seventh season of the Balkan International Basketball League, ten participants from Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Romania has competed.

Teams

Country	Teams	Teams
Montenegro	3	Mornar	Sutjeska	Teodo
Kosovo	2	Peja	Sigal Prishtina
Macedonia	2	Kumanovo	Kožuv
Albania	1	Vllaznia
Bulgaria	1	Rilski Sportist
Romania	1	SCM Craiova

Format

In the first round the teams were divided into two groups, each containing five teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away. The top four teams from each group advanced to the second round. The teams that finished fifth in their group end their participation.

The eight remaining teams are again separated into two groups with four teams each. The teams that already have played during the first round kept the results between them from the first stage and played with the two remaining teams from the other group home and away games. The winners of both groups advanced directly to the semifinals, while the second- and third-placed met in the quarterfinal in home and away elimination games.

The winners of the groups from the second round met against the winners of the third round in two semifinals, played again in home and away elimination games. The winners of those advanced to the final, decided on home and away games.

First round

The games were played between 14 October 2014 and 28 January 2015.

Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts
1.	Kumanovo	8	5	3	688	687	+1	13
2.	Rilski Sportist	8	4	4	691	686	+5	12
3.	Sutjeska	8	4	4	641	644	−3	12
4.	Peja	8	4	4	685	666	+19	12
5.	Teodo	8	3	5	612	634	−22	11

	KUM	PEJ	RIL	SUT	TEO
Kumanovo		83–93	89–82	97–87	76–93
Peja	89–88		91–93	83–64	77–69
Rilski Sportist	90–95	105–97		78–68	83–81
Sutjeska	83–86	86–84	81–79		82–55
Teodo	70–74	78–71	84–81	82–90

Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts
1.	Kožuv	8	8	0	707	556	+151	16
2.	SCM Craiova	8	4	4	641	606	+35	12
3.	Mornar	8	4	4	564	542	+22	12
4.	KB Prishtina	8	4	4	690	691	−1	12
5.	Vllaznia	8	0	8	413	620	−207	8

	CRA	KOZ	MOR	PRI	VLL
SCM Craiova		84–87	75–63	101–82	86–45
Kožuv	80–63		85–66	93–78	99–59
Mornar	85–81	67–75		80–87	79–48
KB Prishtina	92–76	87–100	91–104		85–59
Vllaznia	72–75	52–88	0–20^[A]	78–88

Notes

^
Vllaznia lost the game on forfait due to issues with the technical equipment, as neither the game clock nor the 24’’ device were functioning.^[1]

Second round

The games were played between 3 February and 4 March 2015.

Key to colors
	Advances to Semifinal
	Advances to Quarterfinal

Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts
1.	Peja	6	4	2	476	480	−4	10
2.	Kumanovo	6	4	2	507	505	+2	10
3.	SCM Craiova	6	3	3	473	439	+34	9
4.	Mornar	6	1	5	463	495	–32	7

	CRA	KUM	MOR	PEJ
SCM Craiova		74–75	75–63	97–75
Kumanovo	81–79		92–84	83–93
Mornar	85–81	86–88		65–72
Peja	60–67	89–88	87–80

Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts
1.	Kožuv	6	4	2	498	475	+23	10
2.	KB Prishtina	6	4	2	472	427	+45	10
3.	Rilski Sportist	6	2	4	459	497	−38	8
4.	Sutjeska	6	2	4	391	421	−30	8

	KOZ	RIL	PRI	SUT
Kožuv		72–74	93–78	79–76
Rilski Sportist	86–88		71–94	78–68
KB Prishtina	87–100	94–71		99–92
Sutjeska	74–66	81–79	0–20^[A]

Notes

^
Sutjeska lost the game on forfeit after the game was abandoned after 6 minutes of play due to riots from the home fans, which injured two of KB Prishtina players, the head coach, the team manager and one member from the team staff.^[2]

Quarterfinal

The quarterfinals are two-legged ties determined on aggregate score. The first leg was played on 10 and 11 March 2015, while the second leg was on 24 and 25 March 2015.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rilski Sportist	198–192	Kumanovo	97−85	101−107
SCM Craiova	143–175	KB Prishtina	73−77	70−98

Semifinal

31 March 2015
18:30

Report

Rilski Sportist	62–63	Peja
Scoring by quarter: 24−16, 15−11, 10−20, 13−16
Pts: Bozov 13 Rebs: Rakočević 10 Asts: Bozov 5		Pts: Brkić 14 Rebs: Brkić 13 Asts: Wise 7

Universiada Hall, Sofia
Referees: Marius Ciulin, Aleksandar Milojevik, Bogdan Podar

7 April 2015
19:30

Report

Peja	66–82	Rilski Sportist
Scoring by quarter: 16−19, 19−21, 16−26, 15−16
Pts: Wise 17 Rebs: Hajrizi 8 Asts: Wise 9		Pts: Rakočević 22 Rebs: Rakočević 11 Asts: Rakočević 5

Karagaci, Pejë
Referees: Ademir Zurapović, Haris Bijedić, Georgios Poursanidis

Rilski Sportist won 144−129 on aggregate

1 April 2015
19:30

Report

KB Prishtina	85–61	Kožuv
Scoring by quarter: 24−12, 17−13, 29−14, 15−22
Pts: Bavčić 25 Rebs: Bavčić 12 Asts: Berisha 6		Pts: Nešović, Šepa 11 Rebs: Gocevski 7 Asts: Šepa 4

Pallati i Rinisë dhe Sporteve, Pristina
Referees: Zdravko Rutešić, Radomir Vojinović, Ivan Miličević

8 April 2015
19:30

Report

Kožuv	86–80	KB Prishtina
Scoring by quarter: 25−26, 22−19, 26−21, 13−14
Pts: Nešović 18 Rebs: Janjušević 7 Asts: Brčkov 4		Pts: Berisha 22 Rebs: Trajkovski 11 Asts: Berisha 4

26th April Hall, Gevgelija
Referees: Igor Dragojević, Ognjen Jokić, Ventsislav Velikov

KB Prishtina won 165−147 on aggregate

Final

21 April 2015
18:30

Report

KB Prishtina	74–72	Rilski Sportist
Scoring by quarter: 21−27, 17−16, 17−13, 19−16
Pts: Bavčić 23 Rebs: Trajkovski 11 Asts: Hulls 5		Pts: Rakočević 21 Rebs: Gugino 10 Asts: Norfleet 7

Pallati i Rinisë dhe Sporteve, Pristina
Attendance: 2,500
Referees: Marius Ciulin, Igor Dragojević, Zdravko Rutesić

29 April 2015
19:30

Report

Rilski Sportist	71–80	KB Prishtina
Scoring by quarter: 26−22, 10−16, 16−19, 19−23
Pts: Gugino 25 Rebs: Gugino 9 Asts: Bozov 9		Pts: Hulls 22 Rebs: Berisha, Trajkovski 8 Asts: Berisha 5
KB Prishtina won 154−143 on aggregate

Arena Samokov, Samokov
Attendance: 3,000
Referees: Ademir Zurapović, Ognjen Jokić, Haris Bijedić

2014–15 Balkan League Champions
KB Prishtina 1st Title

References

^ "Mornar defeated Vllaznia by forfeit". Balkan International Basketball League. 28 October 2014.
^ "Dark evening for KK Sutjeska in Niksic". Balkan International Basketball League. 11 February 2015.

External links

BIBL official webpage
Balkan League standings and livescores Archived 2013-05-25 at the Wayback Machine

[cnote_A] 
Vllaznia lost the game on forfait due to issues with the technical equipment, as neither the game clock nor the 24’’ device were functioning.^[1]

[cnote_A] 
Sutjeska lost the game on forfeit after the game was abandoned after 6 minutes of play due to riots from the home fans, which injured two of KB Prishtina players, the head coach, the team manager and one member from the team staff.^[2]

[1] "Mornar defeated Vllaznia by forfeit". Balkan International Basketball League. 28 October 2014.

[2] "Dark evening for KK Sutjeska in Niksic". Balkan International Basketball League. 11 February 2015.

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