FIBA America

FIBA America
Founded	1975
Place of foundation	San Juan , Puerto Rico
president	Horacio Muratore
societies	44 national associations
Homepage	www.fibaamericas.com

FIBA America (officially FIBA Americas ) is a zone of the world basketball association FIBA , to which 49 national teams belong. FIBA America was founded in 1975 and is based in San Juan .

National teams

North America

United States

Canada

Central America

Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala

Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama

South America

Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Ecuador

Colombia Paraguay Peru Uruguay Venezuela

Caribbean

American Virgin Islands Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados Bermuda British Virgin Islands Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Guyana Haiti

Jamaica Cayman Islands Cuba Montserrat Netherlands Antilles Puerto Rico St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands

The ten best-placed teams in the world rankings

→ See also: FIBA world rankings

Men's

rank	team	Points
1	United States 1	940
3	Argentina	490
10	Brazil	222
17th	Puerto Rico	115
24	Mexico M	59.2
25th	Canada	49
26th	Dominican Republic	47.2
27	Uruguay	40
28	Venezuela	36.2
31	Panama	30.6

(As of October 20, 2013)

Ladies

rank	team	Points
1	United States 1	940
7th	Brazil	343
9	Canada	226.2
12	Argentina	162.2
14th	Cuba M	136
26th	Chile	38.4
27	Puerto Rico	34.4
30th	Jamaica	27.2
30th	Mexico	27.2
35	Venezuela	18.4

^M Current Master of the Zone

¹ selection teams had already qualified as defending champions for the 2014 World Cup and did not take part in the American Basketball Championships .

(As of November 5, 2013)

Competitions

For national teams

• American Basketball Championship
• American Basketball Championship for women

For clubs

Men's:

• National Basketball Association ( not organized by FIBA )
• FIBA Americas League
• Liga Sudamericana ( not organized by FIBA )
• Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes ( not organized by FIBA )

Women:

• Women's National Basketball Association ( not organized by FIBA )

Web links

• Official website of FIBA ​​Americas (English, Spanish)
• Usbasket.com (English)
• Latinbasket.com (English)