FIBA Africa Championship 2001
The basketball Africa Championship 2001 (in short: Afrobasket 2001) is the 21st edition of this tournament and took place from August 4 to 12, 2001 in the Moroccan cities of Casablanca and Rabat instead. The finalists of the tournament qualified for the finals of the World Cup 2002.
Defending champions Angola was the tournament with a first round defeat to Algeria win again after you defeated the same opponent in the final. Egypt secured in the " small final " the bronze medal against Tunisia.
- 5.1 Match for 5th Place
- 5.2 Match for 7th place
- 5.3 Match for 9th place
- 5.4 Match for 11th place
Participant
- Morocco Morocco - Host
- Angola Angola - Africa Champion 1999
Furthermore, from the six different main zones of the FIBA Africa attended the following teams:
- Algeria Algeria - Zone 1
- Tunisia Tunisia - Zone 1
- Mali Mali - Zone 2
- Senegal Senegal - Zone 2
- Ivory Coast Ivory Coast - Zone 3
- Nigeria Nigeria - Zone 3
- Central African Republic Central African Republic - Zone 4
- Egypt Egypt - Zone 5
- Mozambique Mozambique - Zone 6
- South Africa South Africa - Zone 6
Mode
At the tournament in a preliminary round was held two groups of six teams as a 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 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 4th and 9th August.
Group A
Group B
Final round
The games of the final round took place on 11 and 12 August.
Placement matches
The games for the places 5 to 12 took place from 11 to 12 August.