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2003 Tournament of the Americas

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Host nation
  
Puerto Rico

Teams
  
10

MVP
  
Steve Nash

Dates
  
August 20–31

Venues
  
1 (in 1 host city)

2003 Tournament of the Americas

Champions
  
United States (5th title)

The 2003 Tournament of the Americas in basketball, now known as the FIBA Americas Championship (or as well Las Americas Tournament for Men, FIBA Americas Olympic Qualifying Tournament, or Panamerican Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men) was hosted by Puerto Rico from August 20 to August 31, 2003. The games were played in San Juan at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum. This FIBA Americas Championship was to earn the three berths allocated to the Americas for the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. The United States won the tournament, the country's fifth Americas championship.

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Venues

All games were played at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum.

Qualification

Eight teams qualified during the qualification tournaments held in their respective zones in 2003; two teams (USA and Canada) qualified automatically since they are the only members of the North America zone.

  • North America:  Canada,  United States
  • Caribbean and Central America: Dominican Republic,  Mexico,  Puerto Rico,  U.S. Virgin Islands
  • South America:  Argentina,  Brazil,  Uruguay,  Venezuela

    • The draw split the tournament into two groups:

    Format

  • The top four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals.
  • Results and standings among teams within the same group are carried over.
  • The top four teams at the quarterfinals advance to the semifinals (1 vs. 4, 2 vs. 3).
  • The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final, where both were granted berths in the 2004 Olympic Tournament in Athens. The losers figure in a third-place playoff where the winner was granted the third berth.

    • 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:

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

    Preliminary round

    Times given below are in Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-4).

    Quarterfinal Group

    The top four teams in both Group A and Group B advanced to the quarterfinal group. Then each team played the four from the other group once to complete a full round robin. Records from the preliminary groups carried over. The top four teams advanced to the semifinals.

    References

    2003 Tournament of the Americas Wikipedia
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