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2017–18 Austrian Basketball Bundesliga

basketball league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ39057324 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2017–18 Austrian Basketball Bundesliga season, for sponsorships reasons named the Admiral Basketball Bundesliga, is the 72nd season of the first tier of basketball in Austria.

Teams

Raiffeisen Flyers Wels replaced WBC Wels, from the same city.

Regular season

Standings

Play-offs

Quarterfinals were played in a best-of-three games format, semifinals in a 2–2–1 format and the final in a best-of-seven format 2–2–1–1–1.

Bracket

Quarterfinals

The team with the higher seed played game one and three (if necessary) at home.

Semifinals

The team with the higher seed played game one, two and 5 (if necessary) at home.

Semifinals

The team with the higher seed played game one, two, five and seven (if necessary) at home.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2017–18 Austrian Basketball Bundesliga” is basketball league season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Austrian, Basketball and Bundesliga, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Austrian, Basketball and Bundesliga is the immediate research focus.
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