1970 FIBA World Championship

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The 1970 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball competition hosted by Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) from May 10 to 24, 1970.

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[edit] Competing nations

Group A Group B Group C

Flag of Australia Australia
Flag of Cuba Cuba
Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Flag of the United States USA

Flag of Brazil Brazil
Flag of Canada Canada
Flag of Italy Italy
Flag of South Korea Korea

Flag of Panama Panama
Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union
Flag of Egypt United Arab Republic
Flag of Uruguay Uruguay
Flag of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia - advanced automatically to the final round as host

[edit] Preliminary round

Qualified for the final round
Qualified for the classification round

[edit] Group A

Team Pts. W L PF PA PD
Flag of the United States USA 6 3 0 272 201 +71
Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 5 2 1 262 249 +13
Flag of Cuba Cuba 4 1 2 205 209 -4
Flag of Australia Australia 3 0 3 185 265 -80

[edit] Group B

Team Pts. W L PF PA PD
Flag of Brazil Brazil 6 3 0 288 229 +59
Flag of Italy Italy 5 2 1 254 229 +25
Flag of South Korea Korea 4 1 2 240 247 -7
Flag of Canada Canada 3 0 3 216 293 -77

[edit] Group C

Team Pts. W L PF PA PD
Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union 6 3 0 302 161 +141
Flag of Uruguay Uruguay 5 2 1 222 221 +1
Flag of Panama Panama 4 1 2 236 266 -30
Flag of Egypt United Arab Rep. 3 0 3 206 318 -112

[edit] Classification round

Team Pts. W L PF PA PD First Tiebreaker
Classification for Tied Teams		 Second Tiebreaker
Goal Average for Tied Teams
Flag of Cuba Cuba 10 5 0 455 336 +119
Flag of Panama Panama 8 3 2 425 408 +17 1W-1L 1.006
Flag of Canada Canada 8 3 2 409 412 -3 1W-1L 1.000
Flag of South Korea Korea 8 3 2 427 397 +30 1W-1L 0.994
Flag of Australia Australia 6 1 4 394 433 -39
Flag of Egypt United Arab Rep. 5 0 5 367 491 -124

[edit] Final round

Team Pts. W L PF PA PD First Tiebreaker
Classification for Tied Teams
Flag of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 11 5 1 445 397 +48
Flag of Brazil Brazil 10 4 2 416 421 -5 66-64
Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union 10 4 2 478 386 +92 64-66
Flag of Italy Italy 9 3 3 411 403 +8 66-64
Flag of the United States USA 9 3 3 431 376 +55 64-66
Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 8 2 4 440 509 -69
Flag of Uruguay Uruguay 6 0 6 342 471 -129

[edit] Final ranking

Rank Team
1 Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia
2 Flag of Brazil Brazil
3 Flag of the Soviet Union USSR
4 Flag of Italy Italy
5 Flag of the United States United States
6 Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
7 Flag of Uruguay Uruguay
8 Flag of Cuba Cuba
9 Flag of Panama Panama
10 Flag of Canada Canada
11 Flag of South Korea Korea
12 Flag of Australia Australia
13 Flag of Egypt United Arab Republic

[edit] All-Tournament Team

[edit] Top scorers (ppg)

  1. Shin Dong-pa (S.Korea) 32.6
  2. Davis Peralta (Panama) 20
  3. Jiri Zidek Sr. (Czechoslovakia) 19.3
  4. Pedro Chappe Garcia (Cuba) 18.5
  5. Pedro Rivas (Panama) 18.5
  6. Lee In-pyo (S.Korea) 18
  7. Omar Arrestia (Uruguay) 17.7
  8. Luis Claudio Menon (Brazil) 17.3
  9. Bob Molinski (Canada) 17.1
  10. Victor Hernandez (Uruguay) 16.5
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