2016 VTB United League Playoffs

2016 VTB United League Playoffs
Tournament details
Country	Russia (7 teams); Czech Republic (1 team)
Dates	29 April–8 June 2017
Teams	8
Defending champions	CSKA Moscow
Final positions
Champions	CSKA Moscow
Runner-up	UNICS
EuroLeague	UNICS
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The 2016 VTB United League Playoffs was the deciding play-off tournament that decided the champion of the 2015–16 VTB United League season. The eight teams that finished highest in the regular season were qualified. The Playoffs started on April 29 and ended on June 8, 2016.^[1] The champions or runners-up of the Playoffs would qualify for the 2016–17 EuroLeague, dependent on the position of automatically placed CSKA Moscow. CSKA Moscow won the championship, after beating runners-up UNICS that qualified for the EuroLeague as runners-up.

Bracket

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals

1	CSKA Moscow	3

8	ČEZ Nymburk	0
			1	CSKA Moscow	3

			4	Khimki	0
4	Khimki	3

5	Lokomotiv Kuban	0
						1	CSKA Moscow	3

						2	UNICS	1
2	UNICS	3

7	Nizhny Novgorod	0
			2	UNICS	3

			3	Zenit St. Petersburg	2
3	Zenit St. Petersburg	3

6	Avtodor Saratov	0

Quarterfinals

In the quarterfinals, teams play against each other which must win three games to win the series. Thus, if one team win three games before all five games have been played, the game that remain are omitted. The team that finished in the higher Regular season place will be played the first, third and fifth (if it is necessary) game of the series at home.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
CSKA Moscow	3–0	ČEZ Nymburk	95–87	79–72	102–87
Khimki	3–0	Lokomotiv Kuban	86–80	97–83	86–71
UNICS	3–0	Nizhny Novgorod	83–70	70–61	84–71
Zenit St. Petersburg	3–0	Avtodor Saratov	95–91	97–85	95–82

Semifinals

In the semifinals, teams play against each other which must win three games to win the series. Thus, if one team win three games before all five games have been played, the game that remain are omitted. The team that finished in the higher Regular season place will be played the first, third and fifth (if it is necessary) game of the series at home.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
CSKA Moscow	3–0	Khimki	86–83	99–87	95–92
UNICS	3–2	Zenit St. Petersburg	94–93	97–91	67–82	82–85	79–70

Finals

In the Finals, teams play against each other which must win three games to win the series. Thus, if one team win three games before all five games have been played, the game that remain are omitted. The team that finished in the higher Regular season place will be played the first, third and fifth (if it is necessary) game of the series at home.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
CSKA Moscow	3–1	UNICS	84–76	90–77	74–79	81–74	–

Game 1

June 1, 2016	CSKA Moscow	84–76 (Series: 1–0)	UNICS	Moscow
19:00	Scoring by quarter: 24–15, 22–26, 27–18, 11–17
	Pts: Teodosic 17 Rebs: De Colo 6 Asts: Teodosic 10	Boxscore	Pts: Langford 16 Rebs: Parakhouski 7 Asts: Colom 7	Arena: USK CSKA Attendance: 4,050 Referees: Sreten Radovic, Saso Petek, Semen Ovinov

Game 2

June 3, 2016	CSKA Moscow	90–77 (Series: 2–0)	UNICS	Moscow
19:30	Scoring by quarter: 27–23, 22–17, 16–22, 25–15
	Pts: Khryapa 19 Rebs: Khryapa 6 Asts: Teodosic 7	Boxscore	Pts: Langford 15 Rebs: Williams 6 Asts: Ponkrashov 7	Arena: USK CSKA Attendance: 4,600 Referees: Sasa Pukl, Oskars Lucius, Ilya Putenko

Game 3

June 6, 2016	UNICS	79–74 (Series: 1–2)	CSKA Moscow	Kazan
19:30	Scoring by quarter: 18–18, 23–22, 24–14, 14–20
	Pts: Langford 29 Rebs: Langford 8 Asts: Langford 4	Boxscore	Pts: De Colo 20 Rebs: Hines 11 Asts: Teodosic 7	Arena: Basket-Hall Kazan Attendance: 5,500 Referees: Sinisa Herceg, Robert Vyklicki, Anton Makhlin

Game 4

June 8, 2016	UNICS	74–81 (Series: 1–3)	CSKA Moscow	Kazan
19:30	Scoring by quarter: 11–25, 15–17, 19–16, 29–23
	Pts: Milaknis 23 Rebs: Williams 10 Asts: Ponkrashov 8	Boxscore	Pts: De Colo 16 Rebs: Nichols 7 Asts: De Colo 5	Arena: Basket-Hall Kazan Attendance: 6,000 Referees: Sreten Radovic, Oskars Lucius, Marczyn Kowalski

References

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