African championship basketball women 2000

African championship basketball women 2000
15th African Women's Basketball Championship
Number of nations	10
African champions	Senegal (9th title)
venue	Tunis
Opening game	November 5, 2000
Endgame	November 12, 2000
Games	27
Basket points	3780   (∅: 140 per game)
Most valuable player	Mame Maty Mbengue

The African Women's Basketball Championship 2000 , the fifteenth African Women's Basketball Championship , took place between November 5 and 12, 2000 in Tunis , Tunisia , which hosted the championship for the third time. The winner was the national team of Senegal , which won the title for the ninth time, for the second time in a row. Tunisia was beaten in the final . For the first time a team from Morocco and Niger took part in the tournament.

Participating teams

•  Angola
•  Egypt
•  Democratic Republic of Congo
•  Ivory Coast
•  Mali
•  Morocco
•  Mozambique
•  Nigeria
•  Senegal
•  Tunisia

mode

In the preliminary round there were two groups (group A and group B) of five teams each. Each team played against each other of the respective group exactly once, so that each team played four games (a total of 20 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 players played for fifth place, the fourth placed for seventh place and the last placed in each group for ninth place.

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

placement	team	Points	G	V	baskets	Diff
1	Tunisia	8th	4th	0	318: 217	+101
2	Democratic Republic of Congo	7th	3	1	444: 264	+180
3	Angola	6th	2	2	370: 231	+139
4th	Egypt	5	1	3	319: 301	−19
5	Nigeria	4th	0	4th	155: 593	−438

day 1

November 5, 2000

Tunisia

131  - 42

Nigeria

day 2

November 6, 2000

Democratic Republic of Congo

94  - 79

Egypt

Day 3

November 7, 2000

Tunisia

61  - 56

Democratic Republic of Congo

November 7, 2000

Angola

80  - 72

Egypt

Day 4

November 8, 2000

Nigeria

39 -  208

Democratic Republic of Congo

November 8, 2000

Angola

51 -  53

Tunisia

Day 5

November 9, 2000

Nigeria

20 -  154

Angola

November 9, 2000

Egypt

68 -  73

Tunisia

Day 6

November 9, 2000

Egypt

100  - 54

Nigeria

November 9, 2000

Democratic Republic of Congo

86  - 85

Angola

Group B

placement	team	Points	G	V	baskets	Diff
1	Senegal	8th	4th	0	284: 197	+87
2	Morocco	7th	3	1	266: 243	+23
3	Mozambique	6th	2	2	209: 233	−24
4th	Ivory Coast	5	1	3	217: 249	−32
5	Mali	4th	0	4th	228: 282	−54

day 1

November 6, 2000

Senegal

67  - 55

Morocco

November 6, 2000

Mali

39 -  60

Mozambique

day 2

November 7, 2000

Ivory Coast

52 -  58

Mozambique

November 7, 2000

Senegal

73  - 56

Mali

Day 3

November 8, 2000

Morocco

84  - 71

Mali

November 8, 2000

Ivory Coast

47 -  63

Senegal

Day 4

November 9, 2000

Mozambique

39 -  81

Senegal

November 9, 2000

Morocco

66  - 53

Ivory Coast

Day 5

November 10, 2000

Mozambique

52 -  61

Morocco

November 10, 2000

Mali

62 -  65

Ivory Coast

Play for 9th place

November 11, 2000

Mali

96  - 28

Nigeria

Game for 7th place

November 11, 2000

Egypt

80  - 76

Ivory Coast

Play for 5th place

November 12, 2000

Angola

68  - 62

Mozambique

Semifinals

Semi-finals November 11, 2000					Final November 12, 2000
B1	Senegal	85
A2	Democratic Republic of Congo	72			Endgame
					B1	Senegal	71
					A1	Tunisia	63
A1	Tunisia	56
B2	Morocco	54
					3rd place match
					A2	Democratic Republic of Congo	80
					B2	Morocco	79

November 11, 2000

Senegal

85  - 72

Democratic Republic of Congo

November 11, 2000

Tunisia

56  - 54

Morocco

3rd place match

November 12, 2000

Democratic Republic of Congo

80  - 79

Morocco

final

November 12, 2000

Senegal

71  - 63

Tunisia

Master Senegal

Ninth championship

Final placement

rank	team
1	Senegal
2	Tunisia
3	Democratic Republic of Congo
4th	Morocco
5	Angola
6th	Mozambique
7th	Egypt
8th	Ivory Coast
9	Mali
10	Nigeria

Senegal and Tunisia qualified by participating in the finals for the 2002 Women's Basketball World Cup in the People's Republic of China .

Web links

• 2000 African Championship for Women - competition page in the FIBA archive ( English )
• Results on the-sports.org ( English )