FIBA Africa Championship 2001

For the women's tournament, see 2000 FIBA Africa Championship for Women.

FIBA Africa Championship 2001
21st FIBA Africa Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host nation	Morocco
Dates	August 4-12
Teams	12 (from 53 federations)
Venues	1 (in 1 host city)
Champions	Angola (6th title)
MVP	Miguel Lutonda
Tournament leaders
Players Teams Points Miloud Dahine 21.4 Rebounds Romain Sato 10 Assists Islam Ibrahim 2.4
Official website
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The FIBA Africa Championship 2001 was hosted by Morocco from August 4 to August 12, 2001. The games were played in Rabat and Casablanca. The top two countries in this FIBA Africa Championship earned the two berths allocated to Africa for the 2002 FIBA World Championship in the United States. Angola won the tournament, the country's 6th African championship, by beating Algeria 78-68 in the final. Both teams qualified for the 2002 FIBA World Championship.

Draw

Group 1	Group 2
Egypt Ivory Coast Mali Morocco Mozambique Tunisia	Algeria Angola Central African Republic Nigeria Senegal South Africa

Squads

Main article: 2001 FIBA Africa Championship squads

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
Egypt	9	5	4	1	412	395	+17
Tunisia	9	5	4	1	389	368	+21
Morocco	8	5	3	2	397	382	+15
Côte d'Ivoire	7	5	2	3	365	357	+8
Mozambique	6	5	1	4	356	393	-37
Mali	6	5	1	4	374	398	-24

Day 1

Morocco	78–57	Mozambique
Mali	76–77	Tunisia
Egypt	83–81	Côte d'Ivoire

Day 2

Mozambique	74–87	Tunisia
Egypt	77–69	Mali
Côte d'Ivoire	80–67	Morocco

Day 3

Mozambique	80–86	Egypt
Côte d'Ivoire	71–79	Mali
Tunisia	80–76	Morocco

Day 4

Egypt	84–77	Tunisia
Côte d'Ivoire	75–60	Mozambique
Mali	83–88	Côte d'Ivoire

Day 5

Tunisia	68–58	Côte d'Ivoire
Mozambique	85–67	Mali
Egypt	82–88	Morocco

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
Algeria	9	5	4	1	362	297	+65
Angola	9	5	4	1	339	278	+61
Nigeria	9	5	4	1	305	280	+25
Senegal	7	5	2	3	354	305	+49
Central African Republic	6	5	1	4	305	354	-49
South Africa	5	5	0	5	211	362	-151

Day 1

South Africa	46–76	Algeria
Angola	71–57	Central African Republic
Senegal	65–80	Nigeria

Day 2

Senegal	104–49	Central African Republic
Angola	70–78	Algeria
South Africa	47–64	Nigeria

Day 3

South Africa	37–69	Senegal
Central African Republic	66–79	Algeria
Angola	54–43	Nigeria

Day 4

Nigeria	59–58	Algeria
Central African Republic	77–41	South Africa
Senegal	60–68	Angola

Day 5

Angola	76–40	South Africa
Central African Republic	56–59	Nigeria
Algeria	71–56	Senegal

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	August 11, 2001
	Egypt	60
	Angola	72
					August 12, 2001
					Algeria	68
					Angola	78
					Third place
	August 11, 2001			August 12, 2001
	Algeria	77		Tunisia	71
	Tunisia	76			Egypt	77

Classification Stage

Nigeria	79–66	Morocco
Côte d'Ivoire	60–73	Senegal
Central African Republic	79–63	Mozambique
Mali	63–54	South Africa

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
1	Angola	6-1
2	Algeria	5-2
3	Egypt	5-2
4	Tunisia	4-3
5	Nigeria	5-1
6	Morocco	4-2
7	Senegal	3-3
8	Côte d'Ivoire	2-4
9	Central African Republic	2-4
10	Mozambique	1-5
11	Mali	2-4
12	South Africa	0-6

Angola and Algeria qualified for the 2002 FIBA World Championship in the United States.

2001 FIBA Africa Championship Winners
Angola Sixth title

Most Valuable Player
Miguel Lutonda

All tournament team

• G Miguel Lutonda
• G Ali Bouziane
• F Edmar Victoriano
• F Ali El Amri
• C Haytham Darwish

Statistical leaders

Points

Rank	Name	PPG
1	Miloud Dahine	21.4
2	Romain Sato	19
3	Ali El Amri	17.4
4	Amara Sy	16.8
5	Ali Bouziane	15.8

Rebounds

Rank	Name	RPG
1	Romain Sato	10
	Mounir Bouhelal
	Mejdi Maalaoui
4	Olumide Oyedeji	8.6
5	Ismail Abdel-Moneim	7.2

Assists

Rank	Name	APG
1	Islam Aly Ibrahim	2.4
2	Ismail Abdel-Moneim	1.6
3	Osama El-Sayed	1.5
4	Ali Bouziane	1.4
	Blaise Amalabian

See also

• 2000 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup

External links

• FIBA Archive