American Basketball Championship 2015

Campeonato FIBA ​​Americas 2015 English The 2015 FIBA ​​Americas Championship
17th American Basketball Championship
Number of nations	10  (of 44 applicants)
FIBA American Champion	Venezuela
venue	Mexico city
Opening game	August 31, 2015
Endgame	September 12, 2015
Most basket points	Luis Scola (Ø 21.1)
Most valuable player	Luis Scola
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The American Basketball Championship 2015 (officially: Campeonato FIBA ​​Americas 2015 ( English The FIBA ​​Americas Championship 2015 )) was the 17th edition of this tournament and took place from August 31 to September 12, 2015 in the Mexican capital, Mexico City . In addition to the continental championship for the men's national teams of the continental federation FIBA ​​America, the tournament also included qualification for the basketball tournament at the 2016 Olympic Games . Of the ten participating teams, the finalists qualified directly for the Olympic Games and the other semi-finalists as well as the fifth-placed team in the intermediate round qualified for another qualifying tournament right before the Olympics next year. Since in addition to the Olympic host Brazil , the United States , the world champion, had already qualified directly for the Olympic Games, the North American world champions decided not to take part in the continental championships. In contrast to the previous American Championship, in which Mexico was the successor, the Mexican national team was even the continental defending champion at this event. The games were played exclusively in the Palacio des los Desportes .

After the premier winners Mexico at the last tournament, the Venezuelan national team under coach Néstor García was another premier winner. Venezuela was able to leave behind the tournament favorites Canada , Argentina and hosts Mexico in the knockout system of the medal round , who had dominated the tournament in the group games of the preliminary and intermediate rounds. Individually, NBA professional Luis Scola from Argentina was named Most Valuable Player for the fourth time in the last five events , after having been the tournament's top scorer for the third time in the last four events . Parallel to the events at the EuroBasket 2015 , which was taking place at the same time , at which Tony Parker was able to replace the Greek scorer legend of the 1980s Nikos Galis as "All-Time Leading Scorer" , Scola also overtook the Brazilian scorer legend of the 1980s Oscar Schmidt as the most successful Points collector across all events of the American Championships. In addition to the semi-finalists, Puerto Rico's selection reached a starting place for another Olympic qualifying tournament in the following year.

Attendees

The qualification was based on the regional sub-zones of the Continental Association. In addition to the North American teams, the United States, which did not participate, and Canada, the medal winners of the previous Central American championship "Centrobasket" and the South American basketball championship also qualified . If the host of the American Championship is among the semi-finalists of these regional championships or as a North American participant, all semi-finalists are also qualified for the continental championships.

North America

•  Canada

Central America & Caribbean

•  Mexico (hosts, defending champions & Centrobasket 2014 winner)
•  Puerto Rico (Finalist Centrobasket 2014)
•  Dominican Republic (Bronze Medal Centrobasket 2014)
•  Cuba (semi-finalist Centrobasket 2014)
•  Panama (Fifth Centrobasket 2014 & replacement for the host)

South America

•  Venezuela (Winner Campeonato Sudamericano 2014 )
•  Argentina (Finalist Campeonato Sudamericano 2014)
•  Brazil (bronze medal Campeonato Sudamericano 2014)
•  Uruguay (semi-finalist Campeonato Sudamericano 2014)

mode

At the tournament, a preliminary round was held in two groups of five teams each as a round-robin tournament. The two worst-placed teams in the preliminary round were then eliminated from the tournament, while the other teams, taking their preliminary round results with them, played an intermediate round as a continuation of the round-robin tournament against the best four teams in the other preliminary round group. The best four teams of this intermediate round played the medals of the continental championships among themselves in the final round in the knockout system . The finalists qualified directly for the Olympic Games, while the participants in third to fifth were invited to the qualifying tournament in July 2016 . If Olympic hosts Brazil, who were disappointedly eliminated after the preliminary round, had been among the finalists, the sixth of the intermediate round would have been eligible to participate in the qualifying tournament the following year.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round games took place between August 31 and September 4, 2015.

Group A

nation	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Mexico	4th	4th	0	309	255		*	84 : 66	82 : 68	78 : 63	65 : 58
2. Dominican Republic	4th	2	2	304	291		66: 84	*	83 : 66	90 : 70	65: 71
3. Panama	4th	2	2	301	308		68: 82	66: 83	*	78 : 71	89 : 72
4. Uruguay	4th	1	3	275	303		63: 78	70: 90	71: 78	*	71 : 57
5. Brazil	4th	1	3	258	290		58: 65	71 : 65	72: 89	57: 71	*

Group B

nation	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Argentina	4th	4th	0	358	305		*	94 : 87	77 : 68	91 : 86	96 : 64
2. Canada	4th	3	1	382	307		87: 94	*	82 : 62	112 : 92	101 : 59
3. Venezuela	4th	2	2	277	274		68: 77	62: 82	*	74 : 63	73 : 52
4. Puerto Rico	4th	1	3	332	338		86: 91	92: 112	63: 74	*	91 : 61
5. Cuba	4th	0	4th	236	361		64: 96	59: 101	52: 73	61: 91	*

Intermediate round

The games of the intermediate round, which determine the four participants in the World Championships, took place between the sixth and ninth September 2015. The results of the preliminary round are shown in italics.

nation	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Canada	7th	6th	1	707	572		*	87: 94	94 : 73	82 : 62	112 : 92	120 : 103	103 : 66	109 : 82
2. Argentina	7th	6th	1	611	564		94 : 87	*	83: 95	77 : 68	91 : 86	92 : 84	84 : 57	90 : 87
3. Mexico	7th	6th	1	577	530		73: 94	95 : 83	*	73 : 70	92 : 86	84 : 66	82 : 68	78 : 63
4. Venezuela	7th	3	4th	496	502		62: 82	68: 77	70: 73	*	74 : 63	72 : 68	75 : 62	75: 77
5. Puerto Rico	7th	3	4th	583	601		92: 112	86: 91	86: 92	63: 74	*	98 : 92	78 : 71	80 : 69
6. Dominik. Rep.	7th	2	5	586	602		103: 120	84: 92	66: 84	68: 72	92: 98	*	83 : 66	90 : 70
7. Panama	7th	1	6th	468	576		66: 103	57: 84	68: 82	62: 75	71: 78	66: 83	*	78 : 71
8. Uruguay	7th	1	6th	519	600		82: 109	87: 90	63: 78	77 : 75	69: 80	70: 90	71: 78	*

Medal round

The medal round games took place on September 11th and 12th, 2015.

	Semifinals					final
	September 11
	1	Canada	78
	4th	Venezuela	79			12th September
						4th	Venezuela	76
	September 11					2	Argentina	71
	3	Mexico	70
	2	Argentina	78
						3rd place match
						12th September
						1	Canada	87
						3	Mexico	86

See also

• 2016 Summer Olympics / Basketball

Web links

• MEXICO 2015 - official website of the tournament ( Spanish / English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Argentina wants to play for gold. (No longer available online.) FIBA America , September 12, 2015, archived from the original on February 6, 2016 ; accessed on September 13, 2015 (English, match report and media information). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.