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May 24, 2012

NIKE International Junior Tournament teams announced!

The slate of teams that will fight for the title of continental champion at the 2010 Euroleague Basketball Nike International Junior Tournament is complete. Eight of Europe's elite junior teams will meet to decide a champion from Thursday, May 6 to Sunday, May 9, during the 2010 Final Four in Paris, France. The recent additions to the event will join four teams that qualified from the classification tournaments held during the season. Zalgiris Kaunas of Lithuania advanced from the Torneo Città di Roma in the Italian capital. Cajasol of Spain made it through the Torneig Junior Ciutat de L'Hospitalet in Spain. Defending champion FMP of Serbia, qualified from the NIJT Classification Tournament Belgrade. Union Olimpija Ljubljana of Slovenia were the winners at the inaugural Barking Abbey Academy Euroleague Basketball Junior Classification Tournament.

Joining those four qualifiers are the host French team from Paris, INSEP; the runner-up from Rome, Benetton Basket of Italy; the runner-up from L’Hospitalet, Unicaja of Spain; and KK Split of Croatia. All games will be held at the Palais Omnisports Paris-Bercy, the same venue as the Euroleague Final Four. The eighth edition of the Euroleague Basketball Nike International Junior Tournament follows those four classification tournaments in which a total of 34 different teams competed. As such, with Europe's best under-18 players headed to Paris, the winning team can be called the undisputed European junior club champion!

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