FIBA Africa Championship 1997
The basketball Africa Championship 1997 (in short: Afrobasket 1997) is the 19th edition of this tournament and took place from 25 July to 3 August 1997 in Senegal's capital Dakar instead. This was the third staging of the continental finals in the capital of Senegal. The finalists of the tournament qualified for the finals of the World Cup 1998.
Senegal hosts took advantage of the home field advantage and defeated, among others, the previously unbeaten defending champions Angola in the semis. In the final they defeated the Nigerians clearly against which it had suffered the only defeat of the tournament in the first round. Angola remained after the repetition of the preliminary round victory over Egypt in the " small final " the bronze medal.
- 5.1 Match for 5th Place
- 5.2 Match for 7th place
Participant
- Senegal Senegal - Host
- Angola Angola - Africa Champion 1995
Furthermore, from the six different main zones of the FIBA Africa attended the following teams:
- Cape Verde Cape Verde
- Mali Mali
- Ivory Coast Ivory Coast
- Nigeria Nigeria
- Central African Republic Central African Republic
- Egypt Egypt
- South Africa South Africa
Mode
At the tournament a preliminary round was played in two groups, in one group and five in the other group of four teams played against each other in the round-robin tournament. While the top two teams in each group, which decided among themselves in victory tie, the direct comparison, is qualified for the semifinals in the knockout system, another placement game played the other teams against each equal -placed team in the other group. The last- placed team in the group with five teams was automatically set to the ninth and final place in the tournament. The semi-finalists were playing according to their group placement from crossing the finalists and participants in the World Cup finals. The semifinal losers were still playing in the small final for the bronze medal, while the winners of the semi-finals competed for the gold medal and the tournament victory in the final.
Preliminary round
The preliminary round matches were held between the 25th and the 30th of July.
Group A
Group B
Final round
The games of the final round took place on 2 and 3 August.
Placement matches
The games for the places 5 to 12 took place on 2 and 3 August.