However Valerio Bianchini led the compact team of Stella Azzurra in a frantic march (undefeated for 6 consecutive games) in Korać Cup that was only interrupted in the semifinals against the subsequent winner Jugoplastika Split.

The summer of 1979 he was given the great opportunity to work in the north and the small city of Cantù where the local basketball club, the previous six years had terrorized throughout Europe with victories in the European competitions away from the champions cup.

[1] The next and his final season at Cantù (1981–82), he became the third Italian coach who won the FIBA European Champions Cup[2] after Cesare Rubini and Sandro Gamba.

Ηaving won everything with the great team of Pallacanestro Cantù, he was found for the next three years at Rome as head coach of Virtus[3] with a view to driving the upper echelons of the Italian League and Europe.

[4] In the 1986 FIBA World Championship in Spain, Italy ranked sixth while in the Eurobasket of Athens in June 1987 it was undefeated until the quarterfinals where it was defeated by the Greece of Nikos Galis and Panagiotis Giannakis.

There after tough competition Scavolini took fourth place after teams such as Panathinaikos, Real Madrid and CSKA Moscow and found claiming to eight-fold, the entry of the Final Four of Zaragoza towards French Limoges of Božidar Maljković and Michael Young.

He spent the last of the good days at the high level, in Teamsystem Bologna where for one year he was fortunate to coach great players of European and world basketball as Carlton Myers, Dominique Wilkins and David Rivers.