African championship basketball 1999

AfroBasket 1999
20th Africa Cup of Nations
Number of nations	12  (of 52 applicants)
FIBA African Champion	Angola (5th title)
venue	Angola ( Luanda , Cabinda )
Opening game	July 29, 1999
Endgame	August 6, 1999
Games	38
Most valuable player	Lamine Diawara

The AfroBasket 1999 ( shortly : Afrobasket 1999 ) is the 20th edition of this tournament and found in the from July 29 to August 6, 1999 Angolan cities Luanda and Cabinda instead. The winner of the tournament qualified for the basketball tournament at the 2000 Olympic Games .

Host Angola was able to regain its title, which it lost in 1997, and has won the last six events of the competition for the fifth time. They used the home advantage and won the tournament without defeat when they won the first round. Only two silver medalists, Nigeria, and the fourth-placed Malians, including “ Most Valuable Player ” Lamine Diawara, were able to keep the Angolans below ten points. Egypt won the bronze medal with only one tournament loss to Nigeria in the semifinals. Defending champion Senegal only came in seventh place.

Attendees

•  Angola - host
•  Senegal - African Champion 1997

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

•  Algeria - Zone 1
•  Morocco - Zone 1
•  Tunisia - Zone 1
•  Cape Verde - Zone 2
•  Mali - Zone 2
•  Ivory Coast - Zone 3
•  Nigeria - Zone 3
•  Egypt - Zone 5
•  Mozambique - Zone 6
•  South Africa - Zone 6

mode

At the tournament, a preliminary round was held in two groups of six teams each as 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 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 29th and August 4th.

Group A

nation	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Egypt	5	5	0	348	256		*	70 : 55	83 : 49	83 : 49	60 : 57	73 : 42
2. Mali	5	3	2	340	345		55: 70	*	79 : 77	78 : 74	60: 64	68 : 60
3. Algeria	5	3	2	325	331		49: 83	77: 79	*	69 : 64	72 : 70	58 : 35
4. Senegal	5	2	3	322	320		53: 62	74: 78	64: 69	*	57 : 54	74 : 57
5. Cape Verde	5	2	3	318	320		57: 60	64 : 60	70: 72	54: 57	*	73 : 71
6. Morocco	5	0	5	265	346		42: 73	60: 68	35: 58	57: 74	71: 73	*

Group B

nation	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Angola	5	5	0	430	251		*	64 : 57	79 : 48	98 : 74	104 : 47	85 : 25
2. Nigeria	5	4th	1	375	277		57: 64	*	71 : 56	80 : 69	82 : 43	85 : 45
3. Tunisia	5	3	2	258	255		48: 79	56: 71	*	20 : 0	74 : 50	60 : 55
4. Ivory Coast	5	2	3	270	316		74: 98	69: 80	0: 20	*	65 : 60	62 : 58
5. Mozambique	5	1	4th	269	387		47: 104	43: 82	50: 74	60: 65	*	69 : 62
6. South Africa	5	0	5	245	361		25: 85	45: 85	55: 60	58: 62	62: 69	*

Final round

The games of the final round took place on August 5th and 6th.

Semi-finals August 5th					Final August 6th
A1	Egypt	54
B2	Nigeria	69			Endgame
					B2	Nigeria	72
					B1	Angola	79
A2	Mali	69
B1	Angola	77
					3rd place match
					A1	Egypt	75
					A2	Mali	63

Placement games

The games for places 5 to 12 took place from August 11 to 12.

Play for 5th place A3  Algeria 54 B3  Tunisia 56		Game for 7th place A4  Senegal 87 B4  Ivory Coast 70
Play for 9th place A5  Cape Verde 69 B5  Mozambique 65		Game for 11th place A6  Morocco 59 B6  South Africa 42

See also

• 2000 Summer Olympics / basketball

Web links

• 1999 African Championship for Men - website of the tournament in the FIBA ​​archive ( English )
• FIBAAFRICA.COM - Website of the continental association FIBA ​​Africa ( French / English)