African championship basketball 1997

AfroBasket 1997
19th Africa Cup of Nations
Logo of AfroBasket 1997
Number of nations	9  (of 52 applicants)
FIBA African Champion	Senegal (5th title)
venue	Dakar
Opening game	July 25, 1997
Endgame	August 3, 1997
Games	22nd

The Basketball -Afrikameisterschaft 1997 ( shortly : Afrobasket 1997 ) is the 19th edition of this tournament was held at the from July 25 to August 3, 1997 Senegalese capital Dakar instead. This was the third edition of the continental finals in the capital of Senegal. The finalists of the tournament qualified for the finals of the 1998 World Cup .

Host Senegal took advantage of the home advantage and defeated the previously undefeated defending champions Angola in the semi-finals. In the final you could then clearly defeat the Nigerians , against whom you had suffered the only tournament defeat in the preliminary round. Angola remained after the repetition of the preliminary round victory over Egypt in the "small final" the bronze medal.

Attendees

•  Senegal - host
•  Angola - African champions 1995

In addition, the following teams from the six different main zones of FIBA ​​Africa took part:

•  Cape Verde
•  Mali
•  Ivory Coast
•  Nigeria
•  Central African Republic
•  Egypt
•  South Africa

mode

At the tournament, a preliminary round was played in two groups, with five teams in one group and four in the other group playing against each other in a round-robin tournament . While the two best-placed teams in each group qualified for the semi-finals in the knockout system , with a direct comparison among each other in the event of a tie , the other teams played another placement game against the tied team in the other group. The last placed team in the group of five teams was automatically placed in ninth and last place in the tournament. The semi-finalists played the finalists and participants of the World Cup finals according to their group placement. The semi-final losers played for the bronze medal in the small final, while the winners of the semi-finals fought for the gold medal and the tournament victory in the final.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round games took place between July 25th and 30th.

Group A

nation	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Nigeria	4th	4th	0	320	193		*	50 : 38	77 : 57	93 : 59	100 : 39
2. Senegal	4th	3	1	285	226		38: 50	*	70 : 57	95 : 78	82 : 41
3. Central African Republic	4th	2	2	269	258		57: 77	57: 70	*	87 : 58	68 : 53
4. Ivory Coast	4th	1	3	272	314		59: 93	78: 95	58: 87	*	77 : 39
5. South Africa	4th	0	4th	172	327		39: 100	41: 82	53: 68	39: 77	*

Group B

nation	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Angola	3	3	0	198	135		*	62 : 43	69 : 49	67 : 43
2. Egypt	3	2	1	184	195		43: 62	*	83 : 82	58 : 51
3. Mali	3	1	2	192	192		49: 69	82: 83	*	61 : 40
4. Cape Verde	3	0	3	134	186		43: 67	51: 58	40: 61	*

Final round

The games of the final round took place on August 2nd and 3rd.

Semi-finals August 2nd					Final August 3rd
A1	Nigeria	61
B2	Egypt	51			Endgame
					A1	Nigeria	48
					A2	Senegal	69
A2	Senegal	53
B1	Angola	47
					3rd place match
					B2	Egypt	55
					B1	Angola	79

Placement games

The games for places 5 to 12 took place on August 2nd and 3rd.

Play for 5th place A3  Central African Republic 66 B3  Mali 64

Game for 7th place A4  Ivory Coast 48 B4  Cape Verde 68

See also

• 1998 World Basketball Championship

Web links

• 1997 African Championship for Men - website of the tournament FIBA Archive ( English )
• FIBAAFRICA.COM - Website of the continental association FIBA ​​Africa ( French / English)