1997 ABC Championship explained

Continent:	Asia
Year:	1997
Size:	130
Host:	Saudi Arabia
Dates:	September 11–19
Teams:	15
Federations:	44
Venues:	1
Cities:	1
Champions:	KOR
Title Number:	2
Mvp:	Chun Hee-Chul
Prevseason:	1995
Nextseason:	1999

The 1997 Men's Asian Basketball Confederation Championship was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Qualification

According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts (Saudi Arabia) and the best 5 teams of the previous Asian Championship were automatically qualified.

width=150	East Asia (4+2) !	width=150	Gulf (1+2) !	width=150	Middle Asia (1+2) !	width=150	Southeast Asia (2) !	width=150	West Asia (2)





~~TBD~~

Preliminary round

Group A

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	3	3	0	280	198	+82	6
	3	2	1	215	242	−27	5
	3	1	2	197	214	−17	4
	3	0	3	216	254	−38	3

Group B

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	3	3	0	326	196	+130	6
	3	2	1	262	180	+82	5
	3	1	2	257	237	+20	4
	3	0	3	152	384	−232	3

Group C

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	2	2	0	165	129	+36	4
	2	1	1	163	139	+24	3
	2	0	2	116	176	−60	2

Group D

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	3	3	0	205	168	+37	6
	3	2	1	197	184	+13	5
	3	1	2	226	203	+23	4
	3	0	3	176	249	−73	3

Quarterfinal round

Group I

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	3	3	0	263	178	+85	6
	3	2	1	223	220	+3	5
	3	1	2	207	232	−25	4
	3	0	3	180	243	−63	3

Group II

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts	width=80	Tiebreaker
	3	2	1	265	251	+14	5	1–0
	3	2	1	282	245	+37	5	0–1
	3	1	2	217	235	−18	4	1–0
	3	1	2	233	266	−33	4	0–1

Group III

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	3	3	0	264	176	+88	6
	3	2	1	266	186	+80	5
	3	1	2	236	223	+13	4
	3	0	3	137	318	−181	3

Group IV

width=180	Team	width=30	Pld	width=30	W	width=30	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=30	Pts
	2	2	0	173	143	+30	4
	2	1	1	156	172	−16	3
	2	0	2	157	171	−14	2

Classification 5th–14th

5th place

Final round

Final

Final standing

width=10px bgcolor="#ccffcc"		Qualified for the 1998 FIBA World Championship

width=40	Rank	width=180	Team	width=60	Record
		7–1
		4–3
		7–1
4		4–3
5		4–3
6		4–3
7		3–4
8		3–4
9		3–3
10		4–3
11		3–3
12		2–5
13		2–4
14		1–5
15		0–6

Awards

Most Valuable Player: Chun Hee-Chul
Best Scorer: Abdulmajeed Ali
Best Playmaker: Kang Dong-Hee
Best 3-Pointer: Alexey Yeropkin
Best Coach: Kim Dong-Kwang
Sportsmanship Award: Romel Adducul