2010-11 Results

Eurocup

Regular Season: 3-3

Italian League: Finalist

Italian Cup: Finalist

Thirty years after it first lifted the Euroleague trophy, Bennet Cantu is back to make a name for itself in the continent's premier basketball competition. Cantu was a powerhouse in the 1970s and early 1980s as it racked up 10 trophies, including two Euroleague titles, in continental competition. To this day, only Real Madrid has more trophies in European competition. Cantu disappeared from the scene for many years, but proved it was back last season by going all the way to the Italian League finals and earning a berth in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague. The club was founded between 1936 and 1937 as Associazione Pallacanestro Cantu by the initiative of two youngsters, Mario Broggi and Angiolino Polli, and coach Luigi Cicoria soon led the team to its first relevant title, the Mussolini Cup in 1942. After World War II, Cantu reappeared in the Italian third division in 1949, made the second division by 1953 and rose to the top Italian league the following year. Tom Burgess, Carlo Recalcati and Boris Stankovic gave the team its first-ever Italian League title in 1968. Pierluigi Marzorati arrived soon after that and Cantu became a top team outside the Italian borders. Marzorati and Recalcati led Cantu to three consecutive Korac Cup titles from 1973 to 1975. Cantu also beat Real Madrid for the Intercontinental Cup in 1975. Cantu then lifted three straight Saporta Cup titles from 1977 to 1979. Despite losing the 1980 Saporta final to Varese, Marzorati and Antonello Riva led Cantu to another Saporta Cup title in 1981 and the club added its third and last Italian League title that same year. In 1982 Cantu lifted its first European Cup trophy by downing Maccabi 86-80 in the final behind 25 points from CJ Kupec. Ford Cantu came back to defend its Euroleague title in 1983 by edging Milano 69-68 on a last-second blocked shot by Bruce Flowers. Cantu added another Korac Cup title in 1991 over Madrid in a two-game finals behind an unstoppable Pace Mannion. However the team fell into obscurity without Marzorati and Riva and even dropped to the Italian second division in 1994. The club bounced back to reach the Italian League semifinals in 2002 and has been competitive ever since, winning the Italian Supercup in 2003. Cantu took part in the 2004-05 ULEB Cup and last season played the Eurocup. Its greatest recent successes have come in Italy, but none compared to last season when Cantu reached both the Italian League and Italian Cup finals only to be stopped by Montepaschi Siena. This year Cantu steps up to Siena's level at the Euroleague looking to fully restore a sleeping giant to elite status.

Marko Scekic

PROVISIONAL ROSTER 2011-12
Federico Bolzonella	G
Gianluca Basile	G
Maarten Leunen	F
David Lighty	G
Manuchar Markoishvili	G
Artsiom Parakhouski	C
Vladimir Micov	F
Marko Scekic	C
Andrea Cinciarini	G
Head Coach: Andrea Trinchieri