The 1960/61 season brought 24 best European teams in a race for the European crown. This season presented some historical moments, and once again brought the Soviet team dominance in the EuroLeague Finals.
The ASK Rīga team once again entered the competition as the reigning EuroLeague champions, and for a 4th consecutive season, ASK reached the EuroLeague Finals where they met the Soviet champions – CSKA Moscow, led by Gennady Volnov and Viktor Zubkov. Each team was able to win one game, but CSKA was too strong in the first Finals game in Riga, getting a comfortable 87-62 win. The ASK did their best to make a comeback in Moscow, but CSKA successfully stopped the 3-time EuroLeague Finals MVP, Jānis Krūmiņš, who averaged just 10.0 points per game in the Finals.
The 24-year-old CSKA center, Viktor Zubkov, had an excellent series, averaging 21.5 points per game and deservedly winning the Finals MVP award. He wasn’t as tall and powerful as the Latvian giant, but his quickness was his strongest weapon on both sides of the court.
The Legia Warsaw forward, Janusz Wichowski, won his second Top Scorer award, finishing the season with 136 points in 6 games, averaging 22.7 points per game. His team reached the 1/4 Finals stage, where they lost to the eventual champions.
The loss against CSKA marked the end of ASK Rīga era. Other Soviet teams took the torch and continued to bring more EuroLeague titles for the Soviet basketball. Still, no other Soviet team or player had such a dominance in the EuroLeague, as ASK and Jānis Krūmiņš, who was the EuroLeague’s all-time leading scorer after first 4 seasons.
1960/61 EUROLEAGUE CHAMPIONS
Team
CSKA Moscow
NAT
G
8
W
7
L
1
1960/61 EUROLEAGUE FINALS MVP
Team
Player
Viktor Zubkov
Age
24
G
6
PPG
14.5
PTS
87
1960/61 EUROLEAGUE TOP SCORER
Team
Player
J.Wichowski
Age
26
G
6
PPG
22.7
PTS
136
1960/61 EUROLEAGUE FINALS
GM1
87
62
GM2
61
66
AGG.
148
128
CSKA MOSCOW
ASK RIGA
GAME 1 BOXSCORE
TEAM
TEAM
PLAYER
Gennadi Volnov
Viktor Zubkov
Arkady Bochkarev
Aleksandr Travin
Armenak Alachachian
Mikhail Semenov
Viktor Kharitonov
Anatoly Astakhov
PLAYER
Jaak Lipso
Jānis Krūmiņš
Gundars Muižnieks
Maigonis Valdmanis
Juris Kalniņš
Alvils Gulbis
Oļģerts Hehts
Valdis Muižnieks
POINTS
18
18
13
13
12
8
5
0
87
POINTS
15
14
10
9
6
4
2
2
62
GAME 2 BOXSCORE
TEAM
TEAM
PLAYER
Andrejs Bergs
Juris Kalniņš
Jaak Lipso
Gundars Muižnieks
Maigonis Valdmanis
Jānis Krūmiņš
Alvils Gulbis
Valdis Muižnieks
PLAYER
Viktor Zubkov
Gennady Volnov
Mikhail Semenov
Aleksandr Travin
Armenak Alachachian
Arkady Bochkarev
Viktor Kharitonov
POINTS
20
11
9
8
8
6
2
2
66
POINTS
25
13
9
6
4
2
2
61
SEMIFINALS
GM1
98
58
GM2
73
57
AGG.
171
115
CSKA MOSCOW
STEAUA BUCURESTI
GM1
75
78
GM2
66
45
AGG.
141
123
ASK RIGA
REAL MADRID
1/4 FINALS
GM1
98
72
GM2
85
73
AGG.
183
145
CSKA MOSCOW
LEGIA WARSAW
GM1
89
62
GM2
88
66
AGG.
177
128
REAL MADRID
ANTWERPSE BC
GM1
50
60
GM2
65
47
AGG.
115
107
STEAUA BUCURESTI
SPARTAK PRAHA
GM1
84
60
GM2
78
74
AGG.
162
134
ASK RIGA
HAPOEL TEL AVIV
SECOND ROUND
GM1
68
28
GM2
95
35
AGG.
163
63
CSKA MOSCOW
ETOILE BASKET
GM1
39
40
GM2
54
39
AGG.
93
79
HAPOEL TEL AVIV
GALATASARAY
GM1
62
67
GM2
76
47
AGG.
138
114
LEGIA WARSAW
LEVSKI-SPARTAK
GM1
85
53
GM2
74
47
AGG.
159
100
REAL MADRID
ENGELMANN WIEN
GM1
66
47
GM2
2
0
AGG.
68
47
ANTWERPSE BC
OKK BEOGRAD
GM1
65
56
GM2
68
47
AGG.
133
103
SPARTAK PRAHA
TORPAN POJAT
GM1
56
70
GM2
70
54
AGG.
126
124
STEAUA BUCURESTI
VIRTUS BOLOGNA
FIRST ROUND
GM1
91
67
GM2
89
58
AGG.
180
125
LEGIA WARSAW
USC HEIDELBERG
GM1
68
62
GM2
96
45
AGG.
164
107
VIRTUS BOLOGNA
URANIA GENEVE
GM1
85
54
GM2
86
50
AGG.
171
110
LEVSKI-SPARTAK
WISSENSCHAFT
GM1
72
41
GM2
65
55
AGG.
137
96
GALATASARAY
OLYMPIACOS BC
GM1
53
27
GM2
84
48
AGG.
137
75
ENGELMANN WIEN
SPARTAK BERTRANGE
GM1
62
51
GM2
87
41
AGG.
149
92
ANTWERPSE BC
SPORTING LISBON
GM1
53
50
GM2
89
48
AGG.
142
98
OKK BEOGRAD
KFUM SODER
GM1
55
47
GM2
55
53
AGG.
110
100
ETOILE BASKET
CS CASABLANCAIS
GM1
57
52
GM2
96
54
AGG.
153
106
SPARTAK PRAHA
WOLVES AMSTERDAM
1960/61 EUROLEAGUE TOP 50 BEST SCORERS LIST
The best scorers of the 1960/61 EuroLeague season are ranked based on the total points scored by a player throughout the season. The totality gives a better insight on the value of the player than the scoring averages.
#
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
Team
Player
Janusz Wichowski
Rene Aerts
Emiliano Rodriguez
Joe Sheaff
Andrzej Pstrokonski
Gennady Volnov
Travis Montgomery
Jef Eygel
Jānis Krūmiņš
Viktor Zubkov
Vladimir Lodr
Armand Novacek
Jaak Lipso
Maigonis Valdmanis
Wladyslaw Pawlak
Jiri Baumruk
Mikhail Semenov
Gianfranco Sardagna
Gianfranco Lombardi
Jose Lluis
Slobodan Gordic
Aleksandr Travin
Arkady Bochkarev
Andrejs Bergs
Leszek Kaminski
Juris Kalniņš
Jedrzej Bednarowicz
Carlos Sevillano
Ali Kazaz
Anatoly Astakhov
Andrei Folbert
Gundars Muižnieks
Joseph Decombe
Miloš Pražak
Miodrag Nikolic
Paolo Conti
Milan Rojko
Maarten Sleeswijk
Abilio Ascenso
Fletcher Johnson
Ercan Devekuşuoğlu
Paavo Suhonen
Ezry Luboshitz
Alexandru Fodor
Leszek Arent
Alvils Gulbis
Armenak Alachachian
Giannis Spanoudakis
Uri Guthalf
Dušan Krasny
G
6
5
6
6
6
6
6
5
6
6
6
4
6
6
6
4
6
4
3
6
3
6
5
6
4
6
6
5
4
5
4
6
4
4
3
6
5
2
2
2
4
4
4
5
5
6
6
2
3
4
PPG
22.7
23.2
19.3
16.8
16.5
16.0
15.7
18.0
14.7
14.5
13.0
17.3
11.0
10.7
10.7
15.8
10.5
15.5
20.3
10.2
19.3
9.3
10.5
12.8
12.8
7.8
8.3
9.8
12.0
9.4
11.5
7.3
11.0
11.0
14.0
10.7
8.4
20.0
20.0
20.0
10.0
9.5
9.5
9.5
7.6
6.3
6.3
17.5
11.7
8.5
PTS
136
116
116
101
99
96
94
90
89
87
78
69
66
64
64
63
63
62
61
61
58
56
54
51
51
51
50
49
48
47
46
46
44
44
42
42
42
40
40
40
40
38
38
38
38
38
38
35
35
34
1960/61 EUROLEAGUE BEST OFFENSIVE TEAMS
#
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Team
CSKA MOSCOW
LEGIA WARSAW
REAL MADRID
VIRTUS BOLOGNA
ASK RIGA
LEVSKI-SPARTAK
ANTWERPSE BC
SPARTAK PRAHA
OKK BEOGRAD
USC HEIDELBERG
STEAUA BUCURESTI
ENGELMANN WIEN
HAPOEL TEL AVIV
WISSENSCHAFT
GALATASARAY
URANIA GENEVE
WOLVES AMSTERDAM
TORPAN POJAT
CS CASABLANCAIS
KFUM SODER
OLYMPIACOS BC
SPORTING LISBON
ETOILE BASKET
SPARTA BERTRANGE
G
8
6
6
4
6
4
5
6
3
2
6
4
4
2
4
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
4
2
PTS
665
463
459
288
431
285
343
393
189
125
356
237
227
110
216
107
106
103
100
98
96
92
173
75
PPG
83.1
77.2
76.5
72.0
71.8
71.3
68.6
65.5
63.0
62.5
59.3
59.3
56.8
55.0
54.0
53.5
53.0
51.5
50.0
49.0
48.0
46.0
43.3
37.5
1960/61 EUROLEAGUE BEST DEFENSIVE TEAMS
#
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Team
GALATASARAY
SPARTAK PRAHA
OKK BEOGRAD
CS CASABLANCAIS
CSKA MOSCOW
VIRTUS BOLOGNA
ENGELMANN WIEN
HAPOEL TEL AVIV
REAL MADRID
ANTWERPSE BC
LEVSKI-SPARTAK
ETOILE BASKET
TORPAT POJAN
STEAUA BUCURESTI
ASK RIGA
OLYMPIACOS BC
SPARTA BERTRANGE
LEGIA WARSAW
KFUM SODER
SPORTING LISBON
WOLVES AMSTERDAM
URANIA GENEVE
WISSENSCHAFT
USC HEIDELBERG
G
4
6
3
2
8
4
4
4
6
5
4
4
2
6
6
2
2
6
2
2
2
2
2
2
PTS
189
324
164
110
451
233
234
241
369
316
248
263
133
402
405
137
137
422
142
149
153
164
171
180
PPG
47.3
54.0
54.7
55.0
56.4
58.3
58.5
60.3
61.5
62.0
63.2
65.8
66.5
67.0
67.5
68.5
68.5
70.3
71.0
74.5
76.5
82.0
85.5
90.0
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