2007–08 LEB Oro season

2007-08 LEB season
2007-08 LEB season
League	Liga Española de Baloncesto
Sport	Basketball
Duration	September 21, 2007-May 16, 2008
TV partner(s)	Popular TV
Regular season
Season champions	CAI Zaragoza
Season MVP	Andrew Panko (Bruesa)
Top scorer	Antwain Barbour (Tenerife)
Playoffs
Finals
Champions	Bruesa
Finals MVP	Martynas Andriuskevicius (Alicante)

The 2007–08 LEB season is the 12th season of the Liga Española de Baloncesto. The 612-game regular season (34 games for each of the 18 teams) began on Friday, September 21, 2007, and will end on Friday, May 16, 2008. The champion of the regular season will be promoted to ACB. The teams between 2nd and 9th position will play a best of 3 games play off between May 20 and May 27 to see who plays the Final Four in Cáceres, between May 31 and June 1. Two bottom teams will be relegated to LEB Plata.

LEB Oro Regular season

Pos.	Teams	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Avg	Qualification or relegation
1	CAI Zaragoza	34	28	6	2950	2465	+485	Promotion to Liga ACB
2	Alicante Costa Blanca	34	24	10	2795	2648	+147	Promotion playoffs
3	Bruesa GBC	34	24	10	2851	2684	+167
4	Leche Río Breogán	34	24	10	2739	2546	+193
5	Tenerife Rural	34	19	15	2809	2678	+131
6	Plus Pujol Lleida	34	19	15	2714	2655	+59
7	Ciudad de La Laguna	34	17	17	2696	2752	-56
8	Beirasar Rosalía	34	17	17	2636	2739	-103
9	Villa de Los Barrios	34	17	17	2505	2557	-52
10	Melilla Baloncesto	34	15	19	2524	2586	-62
11	Ford Burgos	34	15	19	2639	2661	-22
12	Ciudad de Huelva ¹	34	14	20	2576	2657	-81
13	CB Alcúdia ²	34	13	21	2464	2596	-132
14	Aguas de Valencia	34	13	21	2599	2686	-87
15	Alerta Cantabria ³	34	12	22	2567	2736	-169
16	Basquetinca.com ⁴	34	12	22	2590	2679	-89
17	La Palma ⁵	34	12	22	2626	2782	-156	Relegation to LEB Plata
18	L'Hospitalet	34	11	23	2663	2836	-173	Relegation to LEB Plata

¹ Ciudad de Huelva relegated to LEB Bronce due economic problems.
² CB Alcúdia disappeared.
³ Alerta Cantabria relegated to LEB Bronce due economic problems.
⁴ Basquetinca.com refounded with Bàsquet Muro under the name of Bàsquet Mallorca.
⁵ UB La Palma clinched a vacant LEB berth and was not relegated

LEB Oro Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three (if third serie necessary) series between teams in the 2-9 positions, with the best-place team receiving home advantage. All opening games were played on May 20, 2008, and all second games were played on May 24. The deciding third games were played on May 27.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg^*
Alicante Costa Blanca	2 - 1	Villa de Los Barrios	73 - 67	52 - 66	103 - 67
Bruesa GBC	2 - 0	Beirasar Rosalía	76 - 67	74 - 73	–
Leche Río Breogán	2 - 0	Ciudad de La Laguna	76 - 64	94 - 79	–
Tenerife Rural	2 - 1	Plus Pujol Lleida	86 - 89	92 - 81	91 - 85

* if necessary

Final Four

The Final Four is the last phase of the LEB Oro season, and is held over a weekend in Cáceres. The semifinal games are played on May 31. The championship final is played on June 1.

Semifinals			Finals

2	Alicante Costa Blanca	78

5	Tenerife Rural	79
			5	Tenerife Rural	76

			3	Bruesa GBC	81
3	Bruesa GBC	83

4	Leche Río Breogán	72

Stats Leaders

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1.	Antwain Barbour	Tenerife Rural	39	762	19.5
2.	Brad Oleson	Beirasar Rosalía	32	570	17.8
3.	Darren Phillip	CAI Zaragoza	34	600	17.6
4.	Paolo Quinteros	CAI Zaragoza	34	595	17.5
5.	Andrew Panko	Bruesa GBC	38	597	15.7

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1.	Jakim Donaldson	Ciudad de La Laguna	36	357	9.9
2.	Oriol Junyent	Ciudad de Huelva	21	204	9.7
3.	Serge Ibaka	L'Hospitalet	28	234	8.4
4.	Ondrej Starosta	CAI Zaragoza	34	259	7.6
5.	Andrew Panko	Bruesa GBC	38	287	7.5

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1.	Lucas Victoriano	CAI Zaragoza	34	196	5.8
2.	Jorge Jiménez	Aguas de Valencia	33	154	4.7
3.	Diego Ciorciari	Melilla Baloncesto	34	152	4.5
3.	Xavier Puyada	CB Alcúdia	34	152	4.5
5.	Stéphane Dumas	Alicante Costa Blanca	36	157	4.4