The 1965 African Basketball Championship , the third African Basketball Championship , was held between March 28 and April 2, 1965 in Tunis , Tunisia , which hosted the championship for the first time. The winner was the national team of Morocco , which, in the absence of the defending champions United Arab Republic , won the title for the first time and was still undefeated. For the first time a team from Algeria and Libya took part in the tournament.
The game was played in the form of a round-robin tournament . Each team played against each other exactly once, so that each team played exactly four games (a total of ten games were played). There were two points for each win and one point for a defeat. The team with the most points became African basketball champions in 1962. The remaining places were determined in the same way. In the event of a tie, the direct comparison decided .
Morocco (1st title)
Tunis
Algeria Libya Morocco Senegal Tunisia
