African championship basketball, 1970

African championship basketball, 1970
3rd African Women's Basketball Championship
Number of nations	7th
African champions	Madagascar (1st title)
venue	Lomé
Opening game	March 28, 1970
Endgame	April 4th 1970
Games	14th
Basket points	1191   (∅: 85.07 per game)

The 1970 African Basketball Championship , the third women's African Basketball Championship , was held between March 28 and April 4, 1970 in Lomé , Togo , which hosted the championship for the first time. The winner was the national team of Madagascar , which won the title for the first time, undefeated, when it first participated. In the final, the United Arab Republic could be defeated. For the first time a team from the Republic of the Congo , Madagascar and Togo took part.

Participating teams

 Guinea Madagascar Mali Senegal Togo United Arab Republic People's Republic of the Congo
 
 
 
 
 
 

mode

In the preliminary round there were two groups (group A and group B) of four (group A) and three (group B) teams. Each team played against each other of the respective group exactly once, so that each team played three (Group A) or two (Group B) games (a total of nine games were played). There were two points for each win and one point for a defeat. The two teams with the highest points moved into the semi-finals. In the event of a tie, the direct comparison decided . The two third-placed players played for fifth place. The People's Republic of the Congo was the last in Group A to automatically be last of the tournament and finished in seventh place overall.

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

placement	team	Points	G	V	baskets	Diff
1	Madagascar	6th	3	0	164: 88	+76
2	United Arab Republic	5	2	1	140: 90	+50
3	Guinea	4th	1	2	110: 106	+4
4th	People's Republic of the Congo	3	0	3	72: 202	−130

day 1

March 28, 1970		Madagascar	36  - 16	Guinea
		Points per half: 19  : 8, 17  : 8.

March 28, 1970		People's Republic of the Congo	15 -  55	United Arab Republic
		Points per half time: 7: 18 8: 37 .

day 2

March 29, 1970		Madagascar	81  - 27	People's Republic of the Congo
		Points per half: 39:11  , 42:16  .

March 29, 1970		Guinea	28 -  40	United Arab Republic
		Points per half time: 10: 19 , 18: 21 .

Day 3

March 31, 1970		Guinea	66  - 30	People's Republic of the Congo
		Points per half: 29  : 9, 37  : 21.

March 31, 1970		United Arab Republic	45 -  47	Madagascar
		Points per half-time: 13: 25 , 32  : 22nd

Group B

placement	team	Points	G	V	baskets	Diff
1	Senegal	4th	2	0	98:52	+46
2	Mali	3	1	1	112: 102	+100
3	Togo	2	0	2	69: 125	−56

day 1

March 28, 1970		Togo	51 -  78	Mali
		Points per half time: 25  : 21, 26: 57 .

day 2

March 29, 1970		Senegal	51  - 34	Mali
		Points per half: 22:13  , 29:21  .

Day 3

March 30, 1970		Senegal	47  - 18	Togo
		Points per half: 22  : 7, 25  : 11.

Game for fifth place

3rd April 1970		Togo	35 -  39	Guinea
		Points per half-time: 20: 25 , 15  : 14th

Semifinals

Semi-finals April 2nd, 1970					Final April 4th 1970
A1	Madagascar	63
B2	Mali	54			Endgame
					A1	Madagascar	44
					A2	United Arab Republic	36
B1	Senegal	31
A2	United Arab Republic	47
					3rd place match
					B2	Mali	27
					B1	Senegal	50

April 2nd, 1970		Madagascar	63  - 54	Mali
		Points per half: 27:26  , 36:28  .

March 29, 1970		Senegal	31 -  47	United Arab Republic
		Points per half-time: 15: 20 , 16: 27 .

Game for third place

April 4th 1970		Mali	27 -  50	Senegal
		Points per half time: 11: 31 , 16: 19 .

final

April 4th 1970		Madagascar	44  - 36	United Arab Republic
		Points per half: 16  : 8, 28: 28.

Master Madagascar

First championship

Final placement

rank	team
1	Madagascar
2	United Arab Republic
3	Senegal
4th	Mali
5	Guinea
6th	Togo
7th	People's Republic of the Congo

Madagascar qualified by winning the final for the 1971 World Cup in Brazil .

Web links

• 1970 African Championship for Women - competition page in the FIBA archive ( English )
• Results on the-sports.org ( English )