2011 FIBA Americas Championship for Women explained

Gender:	women
Continent:	Americas
Year:	2011
Size:	200
Host:	Colombia
Dates:	September 24 – October 1
Teams:	10
Federations:	44
Venues:	1
Cities:	1
Champions:	Brazil
Title Number:	5
Mvp:	Érika de Souza
Ppg P:	Javiera Novión Nicole Louden (18.8)
Ppg T:	(79)
Rpg P:	Vanessa Gidden Erika Gómez (8.3)
Rpg T:	(39.8)
Apg P:	Erika Valek (5.8)
Apg T:	(16.2)
Website:	Official Website
Prevseason:	2009
Nextseason:	2013

The 2011 FIBA Americas Championship for Women was the qualifying tournament for FIBA Americas at the women's basketball tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The tournament was held at Coliseo Álvaro Sánchez Silva in Neiva, Colombia from September 24 to October 1. It was the first FIBA Americas Championship for Women to have 10 countries competing.^[1]

Qualification

Qualification was done via FIBA Americas' sub-zones. USA Basketball chose not to enter its national team, which sat atop the FIBA World Rankings going into the tournament, because the team had already qualified for the 2012 Olympics by winning the 2010 World Championship. The qualified teams are:

South American Sub-Zone (FIBA South American Championship for Women 2010):
- - - - (Host)
  - North America Sub-Zone:
- (qualified automatically)
Central American and Caribbean Zone (2010 Centrobasket for Women):
- (qualified automatically)

Draw

The draw ceremonies were held in Neiva on May 5, 2011 at the Auditorio Rodrigo Lara Bonilla de la Asamblea Departamental del Huila. The results, with the FIBA World Rankings prior to the draw, were:^[2]

width=50%	Group A !	width=50%	Group B
25. 10. 13. 33. 72.	49. 6. 12. 27. 72.

Note: Colombia and Paraguay had 0 ranking points and was therefore ranked after the last ranked team.

Format

The top two teams from each group advance to the semifinals.
The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final. The losers play for third place.

Tie-breaking criteria

Ties are broken via the following the criteria, with the first option used first, all the way down to the last option:

Head to head results
Goal average (not the goal difference) between the tied teams
Goal average of the tied teams for all teams in its group

Preliminary round

Group A

width=10px bgcolor="#ccffcc"		Qualified for the semifinals
width=10px bgcolor=#ffcccc		Eliminated in preliminary round

width=220	Team	width=20	Pts	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=35	PF	width=35	PA	width=35	PD
	8	4	4	0	277	215	+62
	7	4	3	1	263	222	+41
	6	4	2	2	243	228	+15
	5	4	1	3	225	259	–34
	4	4	0	4	191	275	–84

All times local (UTC−5)------------------------------------

Group B

width=10px bgcolor="#ccffcc"		Qualified for the semifinals
width=10px bgcolor=#ffcccc		Eliminated in preliminary round

width=220	Team	width=20	Pts	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=35	PF	width=35	PA	width=35	PD	width=75	Tie
	8	4	4	0	334	184	+150
	7	4	3	1	254	176	+78
	5	4	1	3	257	273	–16	1–1, 1.336
	5	4	1	3	237	274	–37	1–1, 1.022
	5	4	1	3	175	350	–175	1–1, 0.737

All times local (UTC−5)------------------------------------

Final round

Semifinals

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Final

Statistical Leaders

Individual Tournament Highs

Points

Pos.	Name	PPG
1	Javiera Novión	18.8
1	Nicole Louden	18.8
3	Erika Gómez	18.5
4	Vanessa Gidden	18.3
5	Érika de Souza	16.2
6	Cynthia Valentín	14.8
7	Erika Valek	14.5
8	Erika Sánchez	14.3
9	Oyanaisis Gelis	12.0
10	Clenia Noblet	11.5

Rebounds

Pos.	Name	RPG
1	Vanessa Gidden	8.3
1	Erika Gómez	8.3
3	Érika de Souza	8.0
4	Alexis Castro	8.0
5	Marlen Cepeda	7.8
6	Simone Edwards	6.8
7	Clenia Noblet	6.5
8	Agostina Burani	6.0
9	Damiris Dantas	5.8
10	Sandra Pavón	5.3

Assists

Pos.	Name	APG
1	Erika Valek	5.8
2	Adriana Moisés Pinto	5.2
3	Shona Thorburn	3.3
4	Oyanaisis Gelis	3.0
5	Carla Cortijo	3.0
6	Taine Ramírez	2.8
7	Teresa Gabriele	2.7
8	Sandra Pavón	2.3
9	Patrícia de Oliveira	2.2
10	Débora González	2.0

Steals

Pos.	Name	SPG
1	Erika Valek	2.3
2	Patrícia de Oliveira	2.0
3	Courtnay Pilypaitis	1.8
4	Adriana Moisés Pinto	1.7
5	Ineidis Casanova	1.7
6	Sandra Pavón	1.7
7	Palmira Marçal	1.5
8	Yamara Amargo	1.3
9	Clenia Noblet	1.3
10	Micaela Jacintho	1.3

Blocks

Pos.	Name	BPG
1	Miranda Ayin	1.2
2	Tathiana Mosquera	1.0
3	Esmary Vargas	1.0
4	Érika de Souza	0.8
5	María Plácido	0.8
6	Lida Fernández	0.8
7	Levys Torres	0.8
8	Agostina Burani	0.7
9	Damiris Dantas	0.7
10	Oyanaisis Gelis	0.5

Final ranking

width=10px bgcolor="#ccffcc"		Qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
width=10px bgcolor="#ffffcc"		Qualified for the 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women.

width=50	Rank	width=175	Team	width=50	Record
		6–0
		5–1
		4–2
4		3–3
5		2–2
6		1–3
7		1–3
8		1–3
9		1–3
10		0–4

Cuba renounced to compete in the World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women. In these circumstances, the FIBA has chosen Puerto Rico, the best team in the Americas Championship after Cuba.

External links

Official Website

Notes and References

https://web.archive.org/web/20110319041528/http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/news/lateNews/p/newsid/45008/arti.html 2011 FIBA Americas Championship for Women to be played in Neiva, Colombia
http://www.fibaamericas.com/noticiasread_us.asp?r=VNQYYCBKMA FIBA Americas - The 2011 FIBA Americas Championship for Women's Draw takes place in Neiva, Colombia