The 1997 African Basketball Championship , the fourteenth women's African Basketball Championship , took place between December 12 and 20, 1997 in Nairobi , Kenya , which hosted the championship for the first time. The winner was the Senegalese national team , which won the title for the eighth time. In the final, the Democratic Republic of the Congo could be defeated. For the first time a team from Uganda and Tanzania took part in the tournament.
Participating teams mode In the preliminary round there were two groups (group A and group B) of five (group A) and four (group B) teams. Each team played against each other in the respective group exactly once, so that each team played four (Group A) or three (Group B) games (a total of 16 games were played). There were two points for each win and one point for a defeat. The two teams with the highest points in each group advanced to the semi-finals. In the event of a tie, the direct comparison decided . The third placed played for fifth place and the fourth placed for seventh place. Uganda, as the last in Group A, was automatically last in the tournament, finishing ninth overall.
Results Preliminary round Group A
placement
team
Points
G
V
baskets
Diff
1
Senegal Senegal
8th
4th
0
441: 211
+230
2
Kenya Kenya
7th
3
1
334: 283
+51
3
Mali Mali
6th
2
2
335: 231
+104
4th
Cameroon Cameroon
5
1
3
169: 529
−360
5
Uganda Uganda
4th
0
4th
155: 593
−438
day 1
December 12, 1997
Kenya Kenya
117 - 36
Uganda Uganda
Points per half: 65 : 13, 52 : 23.
December 12, 1997
Senegal Senegal
68 - 50
Mali Mali
Points per half: 37:21 , 31:29 .
day 2
December 13, 1997
Uganda Uganda
31 - 140
Mali Mali
Points per half time: 12: 75 , 19: 65 .
December 13, 1997
Cameroon Cameroon
68 - 81
Kenya Kenya
Points per half: 32: 45, 36: 36.
Day 3
December 14, 1997
Senegal Senegal
118 - 56
Cameroon Cameroon
Points per half: 60 : 25, 58 : 31.
December 14, 1997
Mali Mali
74 - 76
Kenya Kenya
Points per half: 41:35 , 33:41 .
Day 4
December 15, 1997
Uganda Uganda
45 - 150
Senegal Senegal
Points per half time: 12: 67 , 33: 83 .
December 15, 1997
Mali Mali
71 - 56
Cameroon Cameroon
Points per half: 34:33 , 37:23 .
Day 5
December 16, 1997
Uganda Uganda
57 - 122
Cameroon Cameroon
Points per half-time: 29: 67 , 28: 55 .
December 16, 1997
Senegal Senegal
105 - 60
Kenya Kenya
Points per half-time: 50 : 33, 55 : 27th
Group B
day 1
December 12, 1997
Nigeria Nigeria
115 - 29
Tanzania Tanzania
Points per half: 52:18 , 63:11 .
day 2
December 13, 1997
Tanzania Tanzania
46 - 118
Angola Angola
Points per half-time: 25: 55 , 21: 63 .
Day 3
December 15, 1997
Nigeria Nigeria
80 - 77
Angola Angola
Points per half time: 42 : 37, 38: 40 .
Game for seventh place
December 19, 1997
Cameroon Cameroon
90 - 56
Tanzania Tanzania
Points per half: 49:26 , 41:30 .
Game for fifth place
December 19, 1997
Angola Angola
65 - 57
Mali Mali
Points per half-time: 24: 32 , 41 : 25th
Semifinals
December 18, 1997
Senegal Senegal
74 - 56
Nigeria Nigeria
Points per half-time: 39 : 24, 35 : 32nd
Game for third place
December 20, 1997
Kenya Kenya
62 - 90
Nigeria Nigeria
Points per half: 32: 49 , 30: 41 .
final
Master
Eighth championship
Final placement Senegal and the Democratic Republic of the Congo qualified by participating in the finals for the 1998 women's basketball world championship in Germany .
Web links
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