Basketball at the 2015 African Games – Women's tournament explained

Basketball at the 2015 African Games women's tournament
Year:	2015
Host:	Republic of the Congo
Dates:	September 9 – 18, 2015
Teams:	10
Federations:	10
Venues:	1
Cities:	Brazzaville
Champions:	MLI
Title Number:	1
Website:	African Games: Tournament for Men 2015
Prevseason:	2011
Nextseason:	2019

The 2015 edition of the women's basketball tournament of the African Games was the 11th, organized by FIBA Africa and played under the auspices of FIBA, the basketball sport governing body. The tournament was held from 10 to 18 September 2015 at the Gymnase Makélékélé in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, contested by 10 national teams and won by Mali.^[1]

Squads

See main article: Basketball at the 2015 African Games – Women's team rosters.

Format

• The 10 teams were divided into two groups (Groups A+B) for the preliminary round.
• Round robin for the preliminary round; the top two teams of each group advanced to the quarterfinals.
• From there on a knockout system was used until the final.

Draw

width=175px	Group A	width=175px	Group B

Group stage

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Times given below are in UTC+1.

Group A

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Qualified for the quarter-finals

width=200	Team	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=20	Pts
	4	4	0	327	218	+109	8
	4	3	1	313	196	+117	7
	4	2	2	276	219	+57	6
	4	1	3	291	235	+56	5
	4	0	4	102	441	-339	4

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Group B

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Qualified for the quarter-finals

width=200	Team	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=30	PF	width=30	PA	width=30	PD	width=20	Pts
	4	4	0	307	194	+113	8
	4	3	1	222	209	+13	7
	4	2	2	242	237	+5	6
	4	1	3	205	271	-66	5
	4	0	4	225	290	-65	4

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Knockout stage

All matches were played at the: Gymnase Makélékélé, in Brazzaville

Gold medal match

Final standings

Rank	width=150px	Team	Record
		6-1
		6-1
		5-2
4		5-2
5		4-3
6		2-5
7		3-4
8		1-6
9		1-4
10		0-5

See also

AfroBasket Women 2015

External links

• Results

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mali claim gold at 2015 All-Africa Games . https://archive.today/20150922103641/http://www.fiba.com/news/mali-claim-gold-at-2015-all-africa-games . live . September 22, 2015 . FIBA.com . 19 Sep 2015 . 27 Sep 2015.
2. Web site: Basketball, Group Round (M) | African Games Brazzaville 2015 . 2015-09-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150928055511/http://www.cojabrazzaville2015.com/en/basketball-retour-sur-les-poules-h/ . 2015-09-28 .
3. Web site: Basketball, final phase (Men) | African Games Brazzaville 2015 . 2015-09-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150928072805/http://www.cojabrazzaville2015.com/en/basketball-le-tableau-final-hommes/ . 2015-09-28 .