Basketball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

The men's basketball tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games was held in Toronto, Canada at the Ryerson Athletic Centre from July 21 to 25.[1]

Basketball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's tournament
Tournament details
Host country Canada
DatesJuly 21 – 25
Teams8
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Brazil (6th title)
2011
2019

For these Games, the men competed in an 8-team tournament. The teams were grouped into two pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams in each group will advance to a single elimination bracket.[2]

Puerto Rico are the defending champions from the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, defeating Mexico, 74–72 in the final.

The official detailed schedule for the tournament was announced on February 5, 2015.[3]

Qualification edit

A total of eight men's teams qualified to compete at the games. The top three teams at the South American and Central American and Caribbean Championships will qualify for each respective tournament. The host nation (Canada) along with the United States automatically qualified a teams for the event.[4]

Summary edit

Event Date Location Vacancies Qualified
Host Nation 1   Canada
Qualified automatically 1   United States
2014 South American Basketball Championship July 23–28   Isla Margarita 3   Venezuela
  Argentina
  Brazil
2014 Centrobasket August 1–7   Tepic 3   Mexico
  Puerto Rico
  Dominican Republic
Total 8


Draw edit

Pots one through three were based on the each teams finish at their respective qualification tournament. Pot 1 consisted of the champions, pot 2 the runners-up and pot 3 contained the third placed teas. Pot 4 contained the host nation, Canada and the United States. Teams were placed into groups using a random draw (with each group receiving one team per pot). The draw was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico on December 16, 2014.[5] Canada as host nation were able to select their group after the first three pots were drawn. This automatically placed the United States into the group Canada did not select.[6]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

Rosters edit

At the start of tournament, all eight participating countries had up to 12 players on their rosters.[4]


Results edit

 
The Ryerson Athletic Centre, was the venue for the basketball competitions

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)

Preliminary round edit

Group A edit

Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
  Brazil 3 3 0 264 206 +58 6 Qualified for the semifinals
  United States 3 2 1 270 225 +45 5
  Puerto Rico 3 1 2 218 266 −48 4
  Venezuela 3 0 3 198 253 −55 3
Source: [citation needed]
21 July 2015
10:30
Brazil   92–59   Puerto Rico
Scoring by quarter: 31–6, 29–11, 19–25, 13–17
Pts: Hettsheimeir 19
Rebs: Batista 11
Asts: Lima 6
Pts: Clavell, De Jesús 8
Rebs: Villafañe, Young, Collier 4
Asts: Young 3

21 July 2015
21:00
United States   85–62   Venezuela
Scoring by quarter: 18–18, 15–23, 26–12, 26–9
Pts: Wilkins 21
Rebs: Tarczewski 13
Asts: Brown 2
Pts: Cox, Bethelmy 14
Rebs: Bethelmy, Colmenares 8
Asts: Guillén 3

22 July 2015
13:30
Venezuela   64–79   Brazil
Scoring by quarter: 9–22, 14–15, 20–17, 21–25
Pts: Cox, Colmenares 16
Rebs: Vargas Diaz 4
Asts: Vargas 3
Pts: Benite 14
Rebs: Lima 8
Asts: Luz 4

22 July 2015
21:00
Puerto Rico   70–102   United States
Scoring by quarter: 19–29, 10–36, 23–20, 18–27
Pts: Mojica 15
Rebs: Villafañe 8
Asts: Barea 3
Pts: Brown 16
Rebs: Tarczewski 7
Asts: Brown 6

23 July 2015
13:30
Puerto Rico   89–72   Venezuela
Scoring by quarter: 23–13, 23–25, 15–23, 28–11
Pts: Barea 27
Rebs: Clemente 7
Asts: Barea 6
Pts: Lewis 19
Rebs: Colmenares 8
Asts: Vargas, Vargas Diaz 3

23 July 2015
21:00
United States   83–93   Brazil
Scoring by quarter: 17–24, 21–23, 19–28, 26–18
Pts: Langford 17
Rebs: Prince, Tarczewski 5
Asts: Brown 2
Pts: Benite 34
Rebs: Lima 8
Asts: Batista, Luz, Meindl 3

Group B edit

Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
  Canada 3 3 0 289 247 +42 6 Qualified for the semifinals
  Dominican Republic 3 1 2 253 255 −2 4[a][b]
  Argentina 3 1 2 247 244 +3 4[a][b]
  Mexico 3 1 2 232 275 −43 4[a][b]
Source: [citation needed]
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c 1st tie-breaker: The bottom 3 teams had the exact same head-to-head record of 1–1
  2. ^ a b c 2nd tie-breaker:   Dominican Republic had a +15 head-to-head point differential,   Argentina had a +8 head-to-head point differential, and   Mexico had a −23 head-to-head point differential.
21 July 2015
13:30
Mexico   86–84 (OT)   Argentina
Scoring by quarter: 12–15, 25–14, 27–22, 12–25, Overtime: 10–8
Pts: Hernández 19
Rebs: Gutiérrez 14
Asts: Cruz 2
Pts: Laprovíttola 21
Rebs: Delía 10
Asts: Campazzo 5

21 July 2015
18:00
Canada   105–88   Dominican Republic
Scoring by quarter: 20–17, 34–20, 22–25, 29–26
Pts: Heslip 24
Rebs: Bennett 10
Asts: Ejim, Doornekamp 4
Pts: Suero 17
Rebs: Delgado 6
Asts: Feliz, Suero, Delgado 2

22 July 2015
10:30
Dominican Republic   95–70   Mexico
Scoring by quarter: 24–20, 27–20, 30–16, 14–14
Pts: Stokley 22
Rebs: Manuel Guzmán 6
Asts: Acosta, Suero 3
Pts: Cruz 21
Rebs: Ramos, Gutiérrez 7
Asts: Girón 7

22 July 2015
18:00
Argentina   83–88   Canada
Scoring by quarter: 24–24, 26–20, 16–15, 17–29
Pts: Campazzo 23
Rebs: Richotti, Delía 5
Asts: Laprovíttola 7
Pts: Nicholson 24
Rebs: Nicholson 12
Asts: Cadougan 4

23 July 2015
10:30
Dominican Republic   70–80   Argentina
Scoring by quarter: 18–18, 14–26, 20–10, 18–26
Pts: Stokley 19
Rebs: Santana 9
Asts: Acosta 6
Pts: Brussino 21
Rebs: Delía 8
Asts: Laprovíttola 6

23 July 2015
18:00
Canada   96–76   Mexico
Scoring by quarter: 27–16, 22–23, 22–18, 25–19
Pts: Heslip 20
Rebs: Nicholson 10
Asts: Cadougan, Murray 2
Pts: Mendez 24
Rebs: Garibay 6
Asts: Giron 4

Classification round edit

Seventh place match edit

24 July 2015
10:30
Venezuela   83–59   Mexico
Scoring by quarter: 16–6, 28–23, 19–15, 19–15
Pts: Cox 24
Rebs: Vargas 6
Asts: Vargas 4
Pts: Gonzalez, Ramos 11
Rebs: Gonzalez, Gutiérrez 7
Asts: Cruz 4

Fifth place match edit

24 July 2015
21:00
Puerto Rico   85–105   Argentina
Scoring by quarter: 21–22, 18–20, 24–32, 22–31
Pts: de Jesus 12
Rebs: Clavell 7
Asts: Browne 5
Pts: Campazzo 17
Rebs: Delía 12
Asts: Campazzo, Laprovíttola 4

Knockout round edit

 
SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
July 24 — Toronto
 
 
  Brazil68
 
July 25 — Toronto
 
  Dominican Republic62
 
  Brazil 86
 
July 24 — Toronto
 
  Canada71
 
  Canada111
 
 
  United States108
 
Third place
 
 
July 25 — Toronto
 
 
  Dominican Republic 82
 
 
  United States87

Semifinals edit

24 July 2015
13:30
Brazil   68–62   Dominican Republic
Scoring by quarter: 18–12, 17–17, 15–21, 18–12
Pts: Benite 18
Rebs: Lima 11
Asts: Lima, Batista 2
Pts: Stokley 15
Rebs: Santana 9
Asts: Feliz 3

24 July 2015
18:00
United States   108–111 (OT)   Canada
Scoring by quarter: 23–24, 24–28, 33–22, 17–23, Overtime: 11–14
Pts: Brown 25
Rebs: Randolph 6
Asts: Brown 7
Pts: Nicholson 31
Rebs: Bennett 14
Asts: Murray 6

Bronze medal match edit

25 July 2015
11:00
Dominican Republic   82–87   United States  
Scoring by quarter: 26–15, 22–20, 20–24, 14–28
Pts: Stokley 16
Rebs: Santana 10
Asts: Dicent 8
Pts: Brown 19
Rebs: Prince 7
Asts: Brown 5

Gold medal match edit

25 July 2015
16:30
  Brazil   86–71   Canada  
Scoring by quarter: 26–13, 22–16, 19–25, 19–17
Pts: Lima, Taylor, Hettsheimeir 13
Rebs: Luz 7
Asts: Luz, Benite 7
Pts: Bennett 18
Rebs: Bennett 9
Asts: Doornekamp 4

Final standings edit

Rank Team Record
    Brazil 5–0
    Canada 4–1
    United States 3–2
4   Dominican Republic 1–4
5   Argentina 2–2
6   Puerto Rico 1–3
7   Venezuela 1–3
8   Mexico 1–3

References edit

  1. ^ "Pan Am Games Detailed Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 15 September 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  2. ^ "Basketball Schedule". toronto2015.org. TO2015. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  3. ^ Butler, Nick (5 February 2015). "Schedule released for basketball competition at Toronto 2015 Pan American Games". insidethegames.biz/. Insidethegames. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Sport Technical Manual Basketball". scribd.com. TO2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  5. ^ "Toronto 2015 - The draws for the Basketball of the 2015 Pan American Games will be tomorrow". fibaamericas.com/. FIBA Americas. 15 December 2014. Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Toronto 2015 – Results of the Draws for the Basketball of the Pan American Games". fibaamericas.com/. FIBA Americas. 16 December 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2015.

External links edit