2001 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship

EuroBasket Under-16 2001
16th FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship
Tournament details
Host nation  Latvia
Dates 13–22 July 2001
Teams 12 (from 1 federations)
Venues  (in 1 host city)
Champions  Serbia and Montenegro (8th title)
MVP Veljko Tomovic
Tournament statistics
Players Teams
PPG Kleiza (21.5)  Spain,  Georgia (80.0)
Rebounds Kleiza (12.3)  Serbia and Montenegro (42.0)
Assists Markhvashvili (5.4)  Georgia (19.1)

The 2001 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (known at that time as 2001 European Championship for Cadets) was the 16th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. The city of Riga, in Latvia, hosted the tournament. Serbia and Montenegro won the trophy for the eighth time. It was their third title in a row.

Contents

Teams

Qualification

There were two qualifying rounds for this tournament. Twenty-four national teams entered the qualifying round. Fifteen teams advanced to the Challenge Round, where they joined Turkey, Macedonia and France. The remaining eighteen teams were allocated in three groups of six teams each. The three top teams of each group joined Serbia and Montenegro (title holder), Greece (runner-up) and Latvia (host) in the final tournament.

Preliminary round

The twelve teams were allocated in two groups of six teams each.

     Team advanced to Quarterfinals
     Team competed in 9th-12th playoffs

Group A

Team Pld W L PF PA Pts
 Serbia and Montenegro 5 4 1 391 317 9
 Spain 5 4 1 415 396 9
 Lithuania 5 4 1 365 339 9
 Turkey 5 2 3 353 376 7
 Georgia 5 1 4 407 420 6
 Italy 5 0 5 313 396 5

Group B

Team Pld W L PF PA Pts
 Russia 5 5 0 361 287 10
 Latvia 5 4 1 330 312 9
 France 5 3 2 327 307 8
 Greece 5 2 3 367 340 7
 Croatia 5 1 4 337 397 6
 Israel 5 0 5 346 425 5

Knockout stage

9th–12th playoffs

  Playoffs Ninth place
  Georgia  66  
  Israel  82  
 
      Israel  80
    Italy  67
Eleventh place
  Croatia  70   Georgia  87
  Italy  75     Croatia  85

Championship

Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
                   
         
  Latvia  50
 
  Lithuania  55  
  Lithuania  70
 
    Serbia and Montenegro  76  
  Serbia and Montenegro  71
 
  Greece  68  
  Serbia and Montenegro  55
 
    Russia  43
  France  68
 
  Spain  86  
  Spain  61 Third place
 
    Russia  77  
  Russia  58   Lithuania  74
  Turkey  53     Spain  75
 

5th–8th playoffs

  Playoffs Fifth place
  Latvia  47  
  Greece  61  
 
      Greece  52
    France  54
Seventh place
  France  67   Latvia  56
  Turkey  48     Turkey  58
 2001 FIBA Europe U-16 Championship 

Serbia and Montenegro
Eighth title

Final standings

Rank Team
 Serbia and Montenegro
 Russia
 Spain
4th  Lithuania
5th  France
6th  Greece
7th  Turkey
8th  Latvia
9th  Israel
10th  Italy
11th  Georgia
12th  Croatia

References