| Gender: | men |
| Continent: | Africa U-16 |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Size: | 200 |
| Dates: | July 13–22 |
| Teams: | 8 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champions: | Mali |
| Title Number: | 1 |
| Mvp: |  Siriman Kanouté |
| Ppg P: | Kanouté (24.8) |
| Ppg T: | (95.4) |
| Rpg P: |  Elmadawy (8.8) |
| Rpg T: | (64.5) |
| Apg P: | Tsarafeno (5.5) |
| Apg T: | (17.3) |
| Website: | www.fiba.basketball |
| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2019 |
The 2017 FIBA U16 African Championship, alternatively the 5th Afrobasket U16, was an international basketball competition held in Vacoas-Phoenix, Mauritius[1] [2] from 13–22 July 2017. It served as the qualifier for the 2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup.
Mali claimed their first-ever under-16 continental title by dethroning the defending champions Egypt in the final, 76–65. Both teams will represent FIBA Africa to the Under-17 Basketball World Cup next year.[3]
On 25 March 2016, FIBA Africa announced that Mauritius will be the organising country of the tournament.[4]
| Event | Date | Location | Vacancies | Qualified | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 AfroBasket U16 Preliminaries Zone 1 | Cancelled | NA | 2 | ||
| 2017 AfroBasket U16 Preliminaries Zone 2 | Cancelled | NA | 1 | ||
| 2017 AfroBasket U16 Preliminaries Zone 3 | Cancelled | NA | 1 | NA | |
| 2017 AfroBasket U16 Preliminaries Zone 4 | Cancelled | NA | 1 | NA | |
| 2017 AfroBasket U16 Preliminaries Zone 5 | 1–6 June 2017 |  Mombasa | 2 | ||
| 2017 AfroBasket U16 Preliminaries Zone 6 | Cancelled | NA | 1 | ||
| 2017 AfroBasket U16 Preliminaries Zone 7 | Cancelled | NA | 1 | ||
| Total | 8 | ||||
On the eve of the tournament, rosters were finalized for the following participating teams:[5]
The eight teams will be divided into two groups. The Group Phase consists of two legs: for each of the teams per group, they will face each other twice. The top two teams of each group will advance to the Semifinals, and the bottom two teams of each group will move on to the Classification Round, both will be played in a knockout format.[6]
The draw for the main tournament was held on 12 July 2017 at Vacoas-Phoenix, Mauritius.[7]
All times are in Mauritius Time
| width=10px bgcolor="#ccffcc" | Qualified to the 2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup. |
| width=50 | Rank | width=175 | Team | width=50 | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8–0 | |||||
| 7–1 | |||||
| 3–5 | |||||
| 4 | 4–4 | ||||
| 5 | 4–4 | ||||
| 6 | 3–5 | ||||
| 7 | 3–5 | ||||
| 8 | 0–8 |
Siriman Kanouté (MVP)
Faiez Ghomrassi Aly Khalifa
Thierry Nkundwa Oumar BalloPoints
| width=20px | Rank ! | width=200px | Name ! | width=20px | G ! | width=20px | Pts ! | width=20px | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Siriman Kanouté | 8 | 198 | 24.8 | |||||
| 2 | Thierry Nkundwa | 8 | 163 | 20.4 | |||||
| 3 | Marco Rakotovao | 8 | 138 | 17.3 | |||||
| 4 | Momen Hassan | 8 | 125 | 15.6 | |||||
| 5 | Amir Bouzidi | 6 | 87 | 14.5 | |||||
| 6 | Oumar Ballo | 8 | 115 | 14.4 | |||||
| 7 | Sitraka Raharimanantoanina | 8 | 114 | 14.3 | |||||
| 8 | Ouail Gadaoui | 8 | 111 | 13.9 | |||||
| 9 | Edito Tsarafeno | 8 | 109 | 13.6 | |||||
| 10 | Aly Khalifa | 8 | 106 | 13.3 |
Rebounds
| width=20px | Rank ! | width=200px | Name ! | width=20px | G ! | width=20px | Rebs ! | width=20px | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oumar Ballo | 8 | 102 | 12.2 | |||||
| 2 | Thierry Nkundwa | 8 | 93 | 11.6 | |||||
| 3 | Brown Murengezi | 8 | 86 | 10.8 | |||||
| 4 | Elias Ngoga | 8 | 84 | 10.5 | |||||
| 5 | Youssef Elmadawy | 8 | 70 | 8.8 | |||||
| 6 | Sitraka Raharimanantoanina | 8 | 69 | 8.6 | |||||
| 7 |  Bryan Ricotso | 8 | 66 | 8.3 | |||||
| 8 | Adama Sanogo | 8 | 64 | 8.0 | |||||
| 9 | N'Tio Diarra | 8 | 63 | 7.9 | |||||
| 10 | Aly Khalifa | 8 | 61 | 7.6 |
Assists
| width=20px | Rank ! | width=200px | Name ! | width=20px | G ! | width=20px | Asts ! | width=20px | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edito Tsarafeno | 8 | 44 | 5.5 | |||||
| 2 | Siriman Kanouté | 8 | 34 | 4.3 | |||||
| 3 | Omar Morsy | 7 | 26 | 3.7 | |||||
| 4 | Youssef Elmadawy | 8 | 27 | 3.4 | |||||
| 5 | Ouail Gadaoui | 8 | 21 | 2.6 | |||||
| 6 | Fousseny Dieng | 8 | 20 | 2.5 | |||||
| 7 | Wajih Chebbi | 8 | 19 | 2.4 | |||||
| 8 | Abdelmalek Benzidoun | 8 | 18 | 2.3 | |||||
| Marco Rakotovao | 8 | 18 | 2.3 | ||||||
| Jean Umuhoza | 8 | 18 | 2.3 | ||||||
| Samuel Raheriarison | 4 | 9 | 2.3 |