1970_FIBA_World_Championship

1970 FIBA World Championship

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

Competing nations

Group A Group B Group C









- advanced automatically to the final round as host

Preliminary round

Qualified for the final round
Qualified for the classification round

Group A

Team Pts. W L PF PA PD
6 3 0 272 201 +71
5 2 1 262 249 +13
4 1 2 205 209 -4
3 0 3 185 265 -80

Group B

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

Group C

Team Pts. W L PF PA PD
6 3 0 302 161 +141
5 2 1 222 221 +1
4 1 2 236 266 -30
3 0 3 206 318 -112

Classification round

Team Pts. W L PF PA PD First Tiebreaker
Classification for Tied Teams
Second Tiebreaker
Goal Average for Tied Teams

10 5 0 455 336 +119
8 3 2 425 408 +17 1W-1L 1.006
8 3 2 409 412 -3 1W-1L 1.000
8 3 2 427 397 +30 1W-1L 0.994
6 1 4 394 433 -39
5 0 5 367 491 -124

Final round

Team Pts. W L PF PA PD First Tiebreaker
Classification for Tied Teams
11 5 1 445 397 +48
10 4 2 416 421 -5 66-64
10 4 2 478 386 +92 64-66
9 3 3 411 403 +8 66-64
9 3 3 431 376 +55 64-66
8 2 4 440 509 -69
6 0 6 342 471 -129

Final ranking

Rank Team
1 Yugoslavia
2 Brazil
3 USSR
4 Italy
5 United States
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13 United Arab Republic

All-Tournament Team

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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