South American Women's Basketball Championship 1968

South American Women's Basketball Championship 1968
12th South American Women's Basketball Championship
Number of nations	6th
South American champions	Brazil 1968 Brazil (5th title)
venue	Chile Santiago de Chile
Opening game	18th November 1968
Endgame	November 28, 1968
Games	15th
Basket points	1798 (∅: 119.87 per game)

The 1968 South American Basketball Championship for women , the twelfth South American Basketball Championship for women , took place between November 18 and 28, 1968 in Santiago de Chile , Chile , which hosted the championship for the third time. The winner was the team from Brazil , which won the South American Women's Championship for the fifth time, for the third time in a row. Thanks to its success, Brazil was able to overtake Chile in terms of the number of successes.

Participating teams

Argentina Argentina Brazil Chile Ecuador Paraguay Peru
Brazil 1968
Chile
Ecuador
Paraguay 1954
Peru

mode

The game was played in the form of a round-robin tournament with six teams. Each team played against each other exactly once, so that each team played five games (a total of 15 games were played). There were two points for each win and one point for a defeat. The team with the highest points became the South American women's basketball champions in 1968.

Results

placement	team	Points	G	V	baskets	Diff
1	Brazil 1968 Brazil	10	5	0	364: 269	+95
2	Chile Chile	9	4th	1	310: 251	+59
3	Argentina Argentina	8th	3	2	264: 295	−31
4th	Ecuador Ecuador	7th	2	3	291: 331	−40
5	Peru Peru	6th	1	4th	271: 298	−27
6th	Paraguay 1954 Paraguay	5	0	5	298: 354	−56