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2005 FIBA Americas Championship

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Host nation
  
Dominican Republic

Champions
  
Brazil (3rd title)

Venues
  
1 (in 1 host city)

MVP
  
Marcelo Machado

2005 FIBA Americas Championship

Dates
  
August 24 – September 4

Teams
  
10 (from 44 federations)

The 2005 FIBA Americas Championship (The Tournament of the Americas) was hosted by the Dominican Republic from August 24 to September 4, 2005. The games were played in Santo Domingo. This FIBA Americas Championship was to earn the four berths allocated to the Americas for the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan. Argentina had already qualified by winning the gold medal at the 2004 Olympics. Brazil won the tournament, the country's third Americas championship.

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Venues

All games were played at the Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto.

Qualification

Eight teams qualified during the qualification tournaments held in their respective zones in 2004; 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,  Puerto Rico,  Panama,  Mexico
  • South America:  Argentina,  Brazil,  Uruguay,  Venezuela
  • The tournament draw took place Monday, April 18, in Santo Domingo. The teams were split into 5 pots; those drawn first went to Group A, those drawn last went to Group B.

    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 are guaranteed of berths in the 2006 FIBA World Championship. The losers figure in a third-place playoff. The semifinal losers were also given berths in the 2006 World Championship. Also, should Argentina reach one of the first four places in the tournament, due to their obtaining the gold medal in the 2004 Olympic Tournament in Athens, the fifth best team in the quarterfinals stage was also qualified for the 2006 World Championship.
  • 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, but only against teams that also advanced. The top four teams advanced to the semifinals. The fifth-place team (Panama) did not continue competing for the Americas Championship, but qualified for the 2006 FIBA World Championship.

    References

    2005 FIBA Americas Championship Wikipedia