South American Women's Basketball Championship 1978

South American Women's Basketball Championship 1978
17th South American Women's Basketball Championship
Number of nations	5
South American champions	Brazil 1968 Brazil (9th title)
venue	Bolivia La Paz
Opening game	4th November 1978
Endgame	November 10, 1978
Games	10
Basket points	1519 (∅: 151.9 per game)

The 1978 South American Basketball Championship for women , the seventeenth South American Basketball Championship for women , took place between November 4th and 10th, 1978 in La Paz , Bolivia , which hosted the championship for the second time. The winner was the team from Brazil , which won back the title they had lost in the previous year and won the South American Women's Championship for the ninth time.

Participating teams

Argentina Argentina Bolivia Brazil Colombia Paraguay
Bolivia
Brazil 1968
Colombia
Paraguay 1954

mode

The game was played in the form of a round-robin tournament with five teams. Each team played against each other exactly once, so that each team played four games (a total of ten games were played). There were two points for each win and one point for a defeat. The team with the highest points was the women's basketball South American championship in 1978. In the event of a tie, the direct comparison decided .

Results

placement	team	Points	G	V	baskets	Diff
1	Peru Peru	8th	4th	0	419: 254	+165
2	Brazil 1968 Brazil	7th	3	1	302: 267	+35
3	Argentina Argentina	6th	2	2	305: 314	−9
4th	Ecuador Ecuador	5	1	3	282: 332	−50
5	Colombia Colombia	4th	0	4th	211: 352	−141