2011 LDB

LDB 2011
League	Liga de Desenvolvimento de Basquete
Sport	Basketball
Duration	December 2011
Number of teams	16
TV partner(s)	SporTV Rede Globo
NBB season
Champion	Flamengo
Season MVP	Fred Duarte

The 2011 LDB was the first edition of Liga de Desenvolvimento de Basquete, the Under-22 Brazilian basketball league. It received support from the Federal Government to be realized and was a great success. The champion was Flamengo.

LDB is organized according to the rules of FIBA for international competitions: the participating teams are divided into groups of 8 teams each. The teams in each group play against each other, and the three best teams from each group qualify to advance to the next phase, which is a 6 team group stage. The top four teams of that group then advance to the Final Four. The best team of the Final Four is crowned the champion.

Participating teams

Team	Home city
Araraquara	Fortaleza
Paschoalotto/Bauru	Bauru
UniCEUB/BRB/Brasília	Brasília
Flamengo	Rio de Janeiro
Vivo/Franca	Franca
Cia do Terno/Romaço/Joinville	Joinville
Liga Sorocabana	Sorocaba
Winner/Limeira	Limeira
Icatu/Minas	Belo Horizonte
Paulistano/Unimed	São Paulo
Pinheiros/Sky	São Paulo
São José/Unimed	São José dos Campos
Tijuca/Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro
Unitri/Universo/Uberlândia	Uberlândia
Vila Velha/Garoto/UVV	Vila Velha
Cecre/Vitória	Vitória

First phase

Group A

#	Teams	P	W	L	PF	PA	Avg	PCT	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Flamengo	7	7	0	615	406	1,52	100%	14	Qualified for the Semifinal
2	Paulistano	7	6	1	531	451	1,18	85,71%	13
3	Franca	7	4	3	462	438	1,06	57,14%	11
4	Joinville	7	4	3	516	436	1,18	57,71%	11
5	Pinheiros	7	4	3	563	525	1,07	57,71%	11
6	Limeira	7	2	5	435	465	0,94	28,57%	9
7	Tijuca	7	1	6	409	563	0,73	14,29%	8
8	Araraquara	7	0	7	321	568	0,57	0%	7

Source: [1]

Group B

#	Teams	P	W	L	PF	PA	Avg	PCT	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bauru	7	7	0	573	318	1,80	100%	14	Qualified for the Semifinal
2	Minas	7	5	2	476	369	1,29	71,43%	12
3	Brasília	7	5	2	447	354	1,26	71,43%	12
4	Uberlândia	7	4	3	447	458	0,98	57,71%	11
5	Vila Velha	7	3	4	421	474	0,89	42,86%	10
6	São José	7	3	4	430	467	0,92	42,86%	10
7	Vitória	7	1	6	369	487	0,76	14,29%	8
8	Liga Sorocabana	7	0	7	332	568	0,59	0%	7

Source: [2]

Semifinal

#	Teams	P	W	L	PF	PA	Avg	PCT	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Flamengo	5	4	1	281	221	1,27	80%	9	Qualified for the Final Four
2	Bauru	5	3	2	315	272	1,16	60%	8
3	Brasília	5	3	2	281	293	0,96	60%	8
4	Paulistano	5	2	3	297	328	0,91	40%	7
5	Franca	5	2	3	233	320	0,73	40%	7
6	Minas	5	1	4	258	231	1,12	20%	6

Source: [3]

Final four

#	Teams	P	W	L	PF	PA	Avg	PCT	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Flamengo	3	3	0	205	189	1,09	100%	9	LDB Champion
2	Bauru	3	2	1	203	179	1,13	67%	8
3	Paulistano	3	1	2	191	184	1,04	33%	8
4	Brasília	3	0	3	160	207	0,77	0%	7

Source: [4]

Honors

• MVP : Fred Duarte (Flamengo)
• More Assists : Gegê (Flamengo)
• The Most Efficient Player : Fred Duarte (Flamengo)
• More Rebounds : Fred Duarte (Flamengo)

External links

• Official website Archived 2009-01-31 at the Wayback Machine