2016 Imperial Basketball City Tournament Explained

2016 Imperial Basketball City Tournament
Year:2016
Host:Italy
Dates:25–26 June
Teams:4
Federations:4
Venues:1
Cities:1
Champions:Canada
Mvp: Khem Birch[1]

The 2016 Imperial Basketball City Tournament was a four nation international basketball tournament held in Bologna, Italy.[2] All matches of the tournament scheduled from 25 to 26 June 2016 was hosted at the Land Rover Arena.[3]

The tournament follows a Single-elimination tournament with the winners of the initial two matches to contest at the final and the losers to participate at the 3rd place match.[4]

Results

Times listed are local

Final

Notes and References

  1. News: Il Canada vince l'Imperial Basketball City Tournament, 74-71 sull'Italia all'overtime. 27 June 2016. Sportando. 26 June 2016. Italian. Canada wins the Imperial Basketball City Tournament, beating Italy in Overtime. 74-71..
  2. News: Basket, l'Italia verso il preolimpico: tre amichevoli, raduno il 31 maggio. 18 May 2016. Sport Live. Banzai Media S.r.l.. 2 March 2016. Italian. Basketball: Italy going to the Olympic qualifiers, Three friendly tournaments scheduled. Preparation to start in May 31.. https://web.archive.org/web/20160516143931/http://www.sportlive.it/basket-sport/programma-nazionale-italia-torneo-preolimpico-torino-2016-amichevoli.html. 16 May 2016. dead.
  3. News: Bortolotti. Luca. L'Italbasket di Messina e Belinelli torna a Bologna. 18 May 2016. Repubblica.it. Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso. 2 March 2016. Italian. THe Italian national basketball team under Messina, as well as Belinelli returns to Bologna.
  4. News: Ramos. Gerry. Gilas to embark on training trip to Greece, Italy, Turkey; play pocket tournament in Italy. 18 May 2016. Sports Interactive Network Philippines. 18 May 2016.