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 One of the original ULEB Cup teams has its eyes on a return to the competition. Ural Great Perm hosts the return leg of the Eurocup second qualifying round next week needing to beat FMP by more than 8 points to earn its spot among the 32 regular season competitors. And there’s no doubt that this club has the history and pedigree to compete with the best. Basketball is considered one of the oldest sports in the Ural region. The first games were played in the twenties and in 1928, the first international game in Russia took place in Perm as the local team beat its rivals from France. The region did not have any notable success in the years to come, with its best finish in the Soviet Union era being sixth place in 1975.
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 Days away from playing a European competition for the first time since 2001, Cajasol is looking to reclaim its glory days by reaching the Eurocup through that competition's second qualifying round, which starts next Tuesday, November 4.
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 A legendary team by any means is set to start making noise again in European club competitions. ASK Riga started a new era when it was reborn in 2005, but its basketball tradition goes back to the late twenties.
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 A classic European team with a trademark outfit is trying to return to the Eurocup after a long absence. Telekom Baskets Bonn is set to battle Panellinios BC in the Eurocup first qualifying round starting next week with a chance to get back to the competition for the first time since 2005.
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 Tucked away in north-central Germany is the small 13,000-person town of Quakenbrück, home of the Artland Dragons, one of the biggest surprises of this season's ULEB Cup. In its first European experience, head coach Chris Fleming's team survived difficult Group H.
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 Win or lose in its last regular season game, Czech Republic champion CEZ Basketball Nymburk can already claim unconditional success in its first ULEB Cup season. When Nymburk hosts former ULEB Cup champ Dynamo Moscow on Tuesday, it will be noteworthy for a couple reasons.
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 Just four weeks into its first ULEB Cup, Benetton Fribourg Olympics has already registered what is arguably the biggest European win club history, downing Triumph Lyubertsy of Russia last week for the team's second victory in Group E.
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