2002 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship

2002 FIBA Africa U-18 Championship 

13th FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Egypt
Dates	August 2–9, 2002
Teams	9
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (5th title)
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The 2002 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship was the 13th U-18 FIBA Africa championship, played under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Basketball, the world basketball sport governing body. The tournament was held from August 2–9, 2002 at the Indoor Sport Hall of the Cairo Stadium in Cairo, Egypt, contested by 9 national teams and won by Nigeria.^[1]

The tournament qualified the winner and the runner-up for the 2003 FIBA Under-19 World Championship.

Format

• The 12 teams were divided into two groups (Groups A+B) for the preliminary round.
• Round robin for the preliminary round; the top two teams from each group advanced to the semifinals.
• From there on a knockout system was used until the final.

Squads

Draw

Group A	Group B
Angola  Ivory Coast  Nigeria  Senegal	Algeria  Egypt  Madagascar  Mali  South Africa

Preliminary round

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Group A

Qualified for the semi-finals

Team	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts.
Mali	4	0	0	0	0	8
Algeria	3	1	0	0	0	7
Egypt	2	2	0	0	0	6
South Africa	1	3	0	0	0	5
Madagascar	0	4	0	0	0	4

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Group B

Qualified for the semi-finals

Team	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts.
Nigeria	3	0	241	164	+77	8
Angola	2	1	208	216	−8	7
Ivory Coast	1	2	0	0	0	6
Senegal	0	3	0	0	0	5

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Knockout stage

Championship bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	Thu 8 Aug 2002
	Nigeria	107
					Fri 9 Aug 2002
	Algeria	73
					Nigeria	80
	Thu 8 Aug 2002
					Angola	60
	Angola	92
	Mali	79
					3rd place
					Fri 9 Aug 2002
					Algeria
					Mali

7th place match

5th place match

Semifinals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Final standings

Qualified for the 2003 FIBA U19 World Championship

Rank	Team	Record
	Nigeria	5–0
	Angola	3–2
		–
4.		–
5.		–
6.		–
7.		–
8.		–
9.		–

Awards

2002 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship winner
Nigeria Fifth title

Most Valuable Player

References