Mali national basketball team (
French: Équipe nationale de basket-ball de Mali) represents
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mal ...
in men's international
basketball
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competitions has yet to appear in the
FIBA World Championship
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. Their best finish at the
FIBA Africa Championship was in
1972
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where they ended with a bronze medal.
African Championship record
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Morocco 1964 – 6th
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Morocco 1968 – 4th
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Senegal 1972 – 3rd
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Central African Rep. 1974 – 7th
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Tunisia 1987 – 4th
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Angola 1989 – 4th
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Egypt 1992 – 4th
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Kenya 1993 – 7th
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Algeria 1995 – 5th
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Senegal 1997 – 6th
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Angola 1999 – 4th
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Morocco 2001 – 11th
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Algeria 2005 – 8th
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Angola 2007 – 11th
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Libya 2009 – 8th
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Madagascar 2011 – 9th
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Côte d'Ivoire 2013 – 15th
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Tunisia 2015 – 7th
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Senegal/Tunisia 2017 – 9th
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Rwanda 2021 – 15th
Team
Current roster
Roster for the
AfroBasket 2021
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.
Past rosters
Team for the
2013 FIBA Africa Championship
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.
Head coach position
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José Ruiz – 2011–2013
Head coaches
fiba.com. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
See also
* Mali national under-19 basketball team
References
External links
FIBA profile
{{National sports teams of Mali
Basketball in Mali
Men's national basketball teams
Basketball
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