# 2018 Basketball Champions League Final Four

The 2018 Basketball Champions League (BCL) Final Four was the second Basketball Champions League tournament. It was the concluding phase of the 2017–18 Basketball Champions League season.

## Venue

The O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall hosted the final tournament for the first time.
| Athens | Athens2018 Basketball Champions League Final Four (Europe) |
| O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall | Athens2018 Basketball Champions League Final Four (Europe) |
| Capacity: 18,989 | Athens2018 Basketball Champions League Final Four (Europe) |

## Teams
### Road to the Final Four

| Club | Clinched Final Four | Season performance | Season performance | Season performance | Season performance | Season performance | Season performance | Season performance | Season performance | Season performance |
| Club | Clinched Final Four | Regular season record | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals |
| Monaco | 3 April 2018 | 13–1 (1st Group A) | Zielona Góra | 174–142 | 82–84 (A) | 90–60 (H) | Banvit | 159–152 | 77–85 (A) | 74–75 (H) |
| MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg | 4 April 2018 | 12–2 (2nd Group B) | Oldenburg | 162–149 | 63–88 (A) | 74–86 (H) | medi Bayreuth | 170–163 | 81–86 (H) | 77–89 (A) |
| AEK Athens | 4 April 2018 | 8–6 (3rd Group C) | ČEZ Nymburk | 181–180 | 88–98 (H) | 82–93 (A) | SIG Strasbourg | 156–151 | 78–69 (H) | 83–83 (A) |
| UCAM Murcia | 4 April 2018 | 7–7 (4th Group A) | Iberostar Tenerife | 149–143 | 66–71 (H) | 72–83 (A) | Pınar Karşıyaka | 160–137 | 65–79 (A) | 81–72 (H) |

## Background
### MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg qualified for its first ever final phase of a European competition, as in the 2016–17 season they were eliminated by Banvit on a buzzer-beater. In the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), Riesen was having a solid year as it was battling for playoff position. In the BCL play-offs, Riesen eliminated two German sides, EWE Baskets Oldenburg and medi Bayreuth in order to advance to the final four.

### Monaco

Monaco was at the top of the standings in its domestic Pro A season. In February, Monaco won the Leaders Cup for its third consecutive time. In the previous season, the team also qualified for the Final Four but was eliminated in the semi-finals, by runners-up Banvit.

### AEK Athens

AEK was having a successful season as well, as the team captured its fourth Greek Cup title, while beating EuroLeague teams Olympiacos and Panathinaikos on the way. AEK had a remarkable path to the final four, as it was nearly eliminated in the round of 16 but was saved by a three-pointer by Kevin Punter to defeat Czech side ČEZ Nymburk. In the quarter-finals, AEK eliminated French side SIG Strasbourg.
Guard Manny Harris was named the Basketball Champions League MVP as well.

### UCAM Murcia

In its first BCL season, and just its second year ever playing in European competitions, Murcia eliminated the defending champions Iberostar Tenerife in the round of 16. In the quarter-finals, Pınar Karşıyaka was defeated. In the 2017–18 ACB season, Murcia was close to qualifying to the playoffs.

## Bracket

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| 4 May | 4 May |
| MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg | 65 |
| MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg | 65 | 6 May | 6 May |
| Monaco | 87 | 6 May | 6 May |
| Monaco | 87 | Monaco | 94 |
| 4 May | 4 May | | Monaco | 94 |
| 4 May | 4 May | AEK Athens | 100 |
| AEK Athens | 77 | AEK Athens | 100 |
| UCAM Murcia | 75 | | |
| UCAM Murcia | 75 | Third place game | Third place game |
| | | 6 May | 6 May |
| | | MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg | 74 |
| | | UCAM Murcia | 85 |

## Semifinals
### MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg vs Monaco

| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| PG | 3 | Kerron Johnson | 12 | 2 | 2 |
| SG | 4 | David McCray | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| SF | 0 | Thomas Walkup | 10 | 5 | 2 |
| PF | 23 | Elgin Cook | 10 | 4 | 1 |
| C | 19 | Adam Waleskowski | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| PF | 1 | Dwyane Evans | 9 | 7 | 1 |
| PG | 7 | Niklas Geske | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| SG | 10 | Adika Peter-McNeilly | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| SG | 11 | Malik Müller | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| SF | 12 | Florian Koch | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PF | 17 | Mateo Seric | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| PF | 42 | Jacob Wiley | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| Head coach: ||||||
| John Patrick ||||||
| Riesen | Monaco |
| Riesen | Statistics | Monaco |
| 19/38 (50%) | 2-pt field goals | 23/34 (67.7%) |
| 4/17 (23.5%) | 3-pt field goals | 9/28 (32.1%) |
| 15/23 (65.2%) | Free throws | 14/23 (60.9%) |
| 13 | Offensive rebounds | 13 |
| 21 | Defensive rebounds | 22 |
| 34 | Total rebounds | 35 |
| 9 | Assists | 27 |
| 16 | Turnovers | 9 |
| 7 | Steals | 11 |
| 1 | Blocks | 2 |
| 16 | Fouls | 21 |
| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| PG | 2 | D. J. Cooper | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| SG | 22 | Gerald Robinson | 16 | 3 | 1 |
| SF | 8 | Sergiy Gladyr | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| PF | 5 | Amara Sy | 10 | 2 | 4 |
| C | 9 | Elmedin Kikanović | 19 | 7 | 1 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| PG | 4 | Aaron Craft | 7 | 3 | 3 |
| SF | 6 | Paul Lacombe | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| PF | 7 | Damjan Rudež | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| SF | 10 | Romain Poinas | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PF | 14 | Georgi Joseph | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| PF | 23 | Christopher Evans | 17 | 8 | 3 |
| C | 24 | Ali Traoré | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Head coach: ||||||
| Zvezdan Mitrović ||||||

### AEK Athens vs UCAM Murcia

| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| PG | 2 | Mike Green | 7 | 3 | 3 |
| SG | 12 | Giannoulis Larentzakis | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| SF | 3 | Manny Harris | 20 | 2 | 1 |
| PF | 1 | Delroy James | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| C | 32 | Vince Hunter | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| SG | 0 | Kevin Punter | 16 | 3 | 0 |
| PG | 4 | Vassilis Xanthopoulos | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| PF | 5 | Dušan Šakota | 15 | 4 | 2 |
| SF | 8 | Panagiotis Vasilopoulos | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| SF | 9 | Edin Atić | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| C | 22 | Dimitrios Mavroeidis | 9 | 5 | 0 |
| C | 24 | Vassilis Kavvadas | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Head coach: ||||||
| Dragan Šakota ||||||
| AEK | Murcia |
| AEK | Statistics | Murcia |
| 17/31 (54.8%) | 2-pt field goals | 19/43 (44.1%) |
| 8/22 (36.4%) | 3-pt field goals | 6/20 (30%) |
| 19/31 (61.3%) | Free throws | 19/25 (76%) |
| 6 | Offensive rebounds | 15 |
| 26 | Defensive rebounds | 29 |
| 32 | Total rebounds | 44 |
| 15 | Assists | 14 |
| 14 | Turnovers | 15 |
| 9 | Steals | 10 |
| 6 | Blocks | 3 |
| 25 | Fouls | 28 |
| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| PG | 11 | Clevin Hannah | 17 | 4 | 6 |
| SG | 12 | Brad Oleson | 10 | 0 | 2 |
| SF | 27 | Sadiel Rojas | 8 | 12 | 3 |
| PF | 0 | Ovie Soko | 12 | 8 | 2 |
| C | 24 | Kevin Tumba | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| SF | 1 | Lazar Mutić | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| SG | 3 | Álex Urtasun | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PF | 6 | José Ángel Antelo | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| SG | 8 | Vítor Benite | 19 | 1 | 1 |
| PG | 9 | Charlon Kloof | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PF | 13 | Vítor Faverani | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| C | 23 | Augusto Lima | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| Head coach: ||||||
| Ibon Navarro ||||||

## Third place game

| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| PG | 3 | Kerron Johnson | 17 | 3 | 9 |
| SG | 4 | David McCray | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| SF | 0 | Thomas Walkup | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| PF | 23 | Elgin Cook | 11 | 0 | 2 |
| C | 19 | Adam Waleskowski | 10 | 4 | 3 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| PF | 1 | Dwyane Evans | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| PG | 7 | Niklas Geske | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| SG | 10 | Adika Peter-McNeilly | 11 | 4 | 2 |
| SG | 11 | Malik Müller | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| SF | 12 | Florian Koch | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| PF | 17 | Mateo Seric | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| PF | 42 | Jacob Wiley | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Head coach: ||||||
| John Patrick ||||||
| Riesen | Murcia |
| Riesen | Statistics | Murcia |
| 20/39 (51.3%) | 2-pt field goals | 18/37 (48.6%) |
| 7/22 (31.8%) | 3-pt field goals | 9/24 (37.5%) |
| 13/18 (72.2%) | Free throws | 22.31 (71%) |
| 7 | Offensive rebounds | 17 |
| 21 | Defensive rebounds | 29 |
| 28 | Total rebounds | 46 |
| 20 | Assists | 23 |
| 12 | Turnovers | 17 |
| 11 | Steals | 8 |
| 3 | Blocks | 4 |
| 26 | Fouls | 20 |
| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| PG | 11 | Clevin Hannah | 10 | 2 | 8 |
| SG | 12 | Brad Oleson | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| SF | 27 | Sadiel Rojas | 18 | 9 | 1 |
| PF | 0 | Ovie Soko | 15 | 10 | 0 |
| C | 23 | Augusto Lima | 8 | 3 | 1 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| SF | 1 | Lazar Mutić | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| SG | 3 | Álex Urtasun | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| PF | 6 | José Ángel Antelo | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| SG | 8 | Vítor Benite | 8 | 1 | 2 |
| PG | 9 | Charlon Kloof | 12 | 3 | 4 |
| PF | 13 | Vítor Faverani | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| C | 24 | Kevin Tumba | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| Head coach: ||||||
| Ibon Navarro ||||||

## Final

| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| PG | 2 | D. J. Cooper | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| SG | 22 | Gerald Robinson | 13 | 2 | 3 |
| SF | 6 | Paul Lacombe | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| PF | 5 | Amara Sy | 8 | 2 | 0 |
| C | 9 | Elmedin Kikanović | 12 | 6 | 0 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| PG | 4 | Aaron Craft | 9 | 5 | 4 |
| PF | 7 | Damjan Rudež | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SF | 8 | Sergiy Gladyr | 18 | 5 | 0 |
| SF | 10 | Romain Poinas | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| PF | 14 | Georgi Joseph | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PF | 23 | Christopher Evans | 6 | 4 | 1 |
| C | 24 | Ali Traoré | 8 | 2 | 2 |
| Head coach: ||||||
| Zvezdan Mitrović ||||||
| Monaco | AEK |
| Monaco | Statistics | AEK |
| 24/45 (53.3%) | 2-pt field goals | 23/45 (51.1%) |
| 7/19 (36.8%) | 3-pt field goals | 9/17 (52.9%) |
| 25/35 (71.4%) | Free throws | 27/40 (67.5%) |
| 13 | Offensive rebounds | 11 |
| 25 | Defensive rebounds | 23 |
| 38 | Total rebounds | 34 |
| 21 | Assists | 18 |
| 13 | Turnovers | 12 |
| 6 | Steals | 9 |
| 7 | Blocks | 6 |
| 30 | Fouls | 26 |
* 2017–18 Basketball Champions League champions
* AEK Athens 1st title
| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| PG | 2 | Mike Green | 19 | 5 | 3 |
| SG | 12 | Giannoulis Larentzakis | 8 | 0 | 2 |
| SF | 3 | Manny Harris | 9 | 10 | 4 |
| PF | 1 | Delroy James | 13 | 4 | 1 |
| C | 32 | Vince Hunter | 10 | 4 | 0 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| SG | 0 | Kevin Punter | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| PG | 4 | Vassilis Xanthopoulos | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| PF | 5 | Dušan Šakota | 16 | 2 | 1 |
| SF | 8 | Panagiotis Vasilopoulos | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| SF | 9 | Edin Atić | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| C | 22 | Dimitrios Mavroeidis | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| C | 24 | Vassilis Kavvadas | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| Head coach: ||||||
| Dragan Šakota ||||||