Starting lineup five positions and is called the 2-1-2 lineup: In American college basketball, a starting lineup is announced for each team before the game. Starting players are designated as either centers, forwards, or guards. A team can name at most one center, but otherwise any combination of positions is allowable, as long as five players are named. Lineups of three guards, one forward, and one center, or of three guards and two forwards, are the most common alternate lineups. In Canadian football, a team starts with 12 players on offense, 12 players on defense, and a special teams squad of 12
2017–18 Basketball Champions League less players. A total of 56 teams from 32 countries will participate in the 2017–18 Basketball Champions League. The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: Basketball Champions League title holders; FEC: FIBA Europe Cup title holders): The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the FIBA headquarters in Mies, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise): The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 11 July 2017, at the FIBA headquarters in Mies, Switzerland. In the qualifying rounds, teams are divided into seeded and unseeded teams,