By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
Status, dynamics, form and the significance of results were the criteria for ranking the 18 teams.
#18 FC BAYERN MUNICH
Previous ranking: 16 (-2)
Record: 7-17
At home: 6-6
Away: 1-11
Offense-Defense: 74.1-81.9
With nine defeats in the last ten games and a general weakness away from Munich, Bayern shouldn’t ask for much as they move forward in the regular season. The sixth-worst offense and the sixth-worst defense combine for the competition’s -worst point differential (188). As if those weren’t enough, Bayern also commits the most turnovers (15.0 per game). This is how they’ve reserved the last place for themselves for the last six rounds now.
#17 ZENIT ST PETERSBURG
Previous ranking: 17 (-)
Record: 7-17
At home: 3-9
Away: 4-8
Offense-Defense: 74.8-80.8
Zenit has four defeats in the last five games. Those, in combination with their overall course, were more than enough to warrant a change of their coach, with Xavi Pascual arriving in place of Joan Plaza. They are ranked fourth from last in offense (including fourth in turnovers with 13.8) and in the middle in defense (eighth-worst), stats that haven’t allowed them to beat any teams from the current top eight or to get any higher than 14th place, which was way back in Round 5.