| Competition details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Season | 2012–13 | ||
| Teams | 12 | ||
| Games played | 44 (Regular season) | ||
| Final positions | |||
| Champions | Nilan Bisons Loimaa 2nd title | ||
| Runners-up | KTP Kotka | ||
| Third place | Joensuun Kataja | ||
| Fourth place | Kauhajoen Karhu | ||
| Awards | |||
| MVP |   | ||
| Finals MVP | | ||
| Defensive Player | | ||
| Rookie of the Year | | ||
| Coach of the Year | | ||
| Sixth Man | | ||
| Most Improved | | ||
| Statistical leaders | |||
| Points | 22.5 | ||
| Rebounds | 10.5 | ||
| Assists | 6.7 | ||
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The 2012–13 Korisliiga season was the 73rd season of the Finnish national championship named Korisliiga, the highest professional basketball league in Finland. Bisons Loimaa successfully defended its title.
The Korisliiga is the top-tier professional basketball league in Finland, comprising the top 11 teams of the country. In its current format, each team plays all other teams four times in the regular season, twice at home and twice away, for a total of 40 regular season games. The top eight teams continue to the league's playoffs, in which all series are in a best-of-five format. Pantterit holds the record for the most league titles won, with 14. The top level Finnish league for women is the Naisten Korisliiga.
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball through the defender's hoop while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one or more one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated.
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east. Finland is a Nordic country and is situated in the geographical region of Fennoscandia. The capital and largest city is Helsinki. Other major cities are Espoo, Vantaa, Tampere, Oulu and Turku.
