Press Release: Courtesy FIBA on June 27th, 2017
ABIDJAN, Cote d’Ivoire – FIBA Africa confirmed on Friday night that Tunisia and Senegal will jointly host FIBA AfroBasket 2017 from September 8-16.
The 16 participating teams will be divided into four groups of four in the Group Phase (September 8-10), with Senegal’s capital city of Dakar hosting two groups and Tunisia’s capital city of Tunis hosting the other two.
The top two teams from each group will advance to Tunis, which will also host the Final Phase (Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals and Finals) from September 14-16.
The bottom two teams from each group in the Group Phase will be knocked out of the competition.
The participating teams are: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAF), Cote d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia and Uganda.
