The
2001 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship
The FIBA Asia Cup (formerly the FIBA Asia Championship and ABC Championship) is an international basketball tournament which takes place every four years between the men's national teams of Asia and Oceania.
Through the 2015 edition, the tourna ...
for Men was held in
Shanghai
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,
China.
Qualification
According to the ABC rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts (China) and the best 5 teams of the previous Asian Championship were automatically qualified.
Draw
Original draw:
* Withdrew
** Suspended by FIBA, replaced by which finished third in the Southeast Asian qualifiers.
With DPR Korea and Saudi Arabia out of the championship, the ABC has called for a redraw of the 14 participants in
Kuala Lumpur
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Malaysia
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on July 12.
Preliminary round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Quarterfinal round
Group I
Group II
Group III
Group IV
Classification 5th–14th
13th place
11th place
9th place
7th place
5th place
Final round
Finalists qualified for the
2002 FIBA World Championship
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.
Semifinals
3rd place
Final
Final standing
Awards
*Most Valuable Player:
Yao Ming
*Best Playmaker:
Walid Doumiati
Walid Mahmoud El Doumiati (born July 16, 1968 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a retired Lebanese professional basketball player who last played for Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut. Doumiati alongside Elie Mechantaf and Fadi El Khatib helped build the sport of ...
*Best Rebounder:
Yao Ming
*Best 3-Pointer:
Yang Kyun-Min
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* Yang, in yin and yang, one half of the two symbolic polarities in Chinese philosophy
* Korean yang, former unit of currency of Korea from 1892 to 1902
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*Best Coach:
Johnny Neumann
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High school and col ...
(Lebanon) and
Wang Fei
*Sportsmanship Award:
Michael Madanly
Micheal Madanly (born 10 March 1981 in Aleppo), better known as Michel Madanly or just Micho, is a Syrian professional basketball player. Most known in his prime playing for Jalaa SC's basketball programme from 2004 to 2011, he also played in a ...
All-Star Team:
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Yao Ming
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Wang Zhizhi
Wang Zhizhi (, pronounced ; born 8 July 1977) is a Chinese former professional basketball player who is currently the head coach of the Bayi Rockets, the team with which he spent his domestic career in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). H ...
*
Fadi El Khatib
Fadi El Khatib ( ar, فادي الخطيب; born January 1, 1979), nicknamed "the Lebanese Tiger", is a Lebanese professional basketball player who plays in the Lebanese Basketball League for Sagesse.
El Khatib played for several teams in the Le ...
*
Walid Doumiati
Walid Mahmoud El Doumiati (born July 16, 1968 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a retired Lebanese professional basketball player who last played for Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut. Doumiati alongside Elie Mechantaf and Fadi El Khatib helped build the sport of ...
*
Seo Jang-Hoon
Seo Jang-hoon (; born 3 June 1974) is a South Korean former professional basketball player, who is currently active as an entertainer and variety show star.
Early life
Seo attended Whimoon High School, known as one Seoul's high school basketball ...
References
External links
Resultsarchive.fiba.com
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