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EuroBasket 1997

International basketball event

Field	Value
tourney_name	EuroBasket 1997
other_titles	Campeonato Europeo de Baloncesto Masculino de 1997
image	EuroBasket 1997 logo.gif
country	Spain
dates	24 June – 6 July
num_teams	16
venues	3
cities	2
champion	FR Yugoslavia
count	2
second	Italy
third	Russia
fourth	Greece
mvp	FR Yugoslavia Aleksandar Đorđević
top_scorer	ISR Oded Kattash
(22.0 points per game)
prevseason	1995
nextseason	1999

(22.0 points per game) The 1997 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1997, was the 30th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship held by FIBA Europe, which also served as Europe qualifier for the 1998 FIBA World Championship, giving a berth to the top four (or five, depending on Greece reaching one of the top four places) teams in the final standings. It was held in Spain between 24 June and 6 July 1997. Sixteen national teams entered the event under the auspices of FIBA Europe, the sport's regional governing body. The cities of Badalona, Barcelona and Girona hosted the tournament. Serbia won its second FIBA European title (seventh FIBA European title under the name of Yugoslavia), by defeating Italy with a 61–49 score in the final. Serbia's Saša Đorđević was voted the tournament's MVP.

Venues

Location	Picture	City	Arena	Capacity	Status	Round
{{Location map+	Spain	border =	caption =	float = center	width = 200	Spain	lat_deg=41	lat_min=26	lon_deg=2	lon_min=13	position = top	label=Badalona}}
{{Location map+	Spain	border =	caption =	float = center	width = 200	Spain	lat_deg=41	lat_min=23	lon_deg=2	lon_min=11	position = top	label=Barcelona}}
{{Location map+	Spain	border =	caption =	float = center	width = 200	Spain	lat_deg=41	lat_min=59	lon_deg=2	lon_min=49	position = right	label=Girona}}

Qualification

Main article: FIBA EuroBasket 1997 qualification

Competition	Date	Vacancies
Host nation	–	1
Champions from EuroBasket 1995	21 June – 2 July 1995	1
Qualified through Qualifying Round	22 May 1996 – 28 February 1999	14

Squads

Main article: EuroBasket 1997 squads

Format

The teams were split in four groups of four teams each where they played a round robin. The top three teams from each group advance to the second stage.
In the second stage, two groups of six teams were formed and played a round robin. The results between teams that faced during the preliminary round are carried over. The top four teams from each group in the second stage advance to the knockout quarterfinals to compete for the Championship. The winners in the semifinals compete for the European Championship, while the losers from the semifinals play a consolation game for the third place.
The losers in the quarterfinals compete in a separate bracket to define 5th through 8th place in the final standings.
The four teams eliminated in the second stage compete in another bracket to define 9th through 12th place in the final standings.
The four teams eliminated in the preliminary round compete in another bracket to define 13th through 16th place in the final standings.

Preliminary round

	Qualified for the second round

:Times given below are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Second round

	Qualified for the quarterfinals

Group E

Group F

Knockout stage

Championship bracket

|4 July – 16:00||72||62 |4 July – 18:00||60||75 |4 July – 20:30||70||67 |4 July – 22:30||43||66 |5 July – 20:30||80||88 |5 July – 22:30||65||67 |6 July – 21:30||61||49 |6 July – 19:15||77||97

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Third place

Final

5th to 8th place

|5 July – 16:00||55||76 |5 July – 18:00||86||71 |6 July – 13:00||93||94 |6 July – 11:00||89||87

9th to 12th place

|4 July – 10:00||84||75 |4 July – 12:00||84||79 |5 July – 12:00||91||84 |5 July – 10:00||93||100

13th to 16th place

|29 June – 10:00||61||73 |29 June – 12:00||76||84 |30 June – 12:00||75||80 |30 June – 10:00||96||94

Statistical leaders

Individual Tournament Highs

Points

Pos.	Name	PPG
1	ISR Oded Kattash	22.0
2	LAT Ainārs Bagatskis	21.8
3	BIH Nenad Marković	21.4
4	LTU Artūras Karnišovas	20.7
4	ISR Tomer Steinhauer	17.1
6	LTU Gintaras Einikis	16.9
7	TUR İbrahim Kutluay	16.8
8	ITA Carlton Myers	15.8
8	LAT Roberts Štelmahers	15.8
10	FRA Yann Bonato	15.6

Rebounds

Pos.	Name	RPG
1	SLO Rašho Nesterović	8.6
2	TUR Mirsad Türkcan	7.3
3	LTU Gintaras Einikis	6.4
3	ISR Tomer Steinhauer	6.4
5	LTU Artūras Karnišovas	5.9
6	RUS Mikhail Mikhaylov	5.6
6	ESP Alfonso Reyes	5.6
8	GER Patrick Femerling	5.4
9	GRE Dimitrios Papanikolaou	5.0
9	FR Yugoslavia Željko Rebrača	5.0
9	LAT Andrejs Bondarenko	5.0

Assists

Pos.	Name	APG
1	CRO Damir Mulaomerović	7.3
2	LAT Raimonds Miglinieks	6.4
3	LTU Darius Lukminas	5.6
4	FR Yugoslavia Saša Đorđević	4.5
5	GER Henrik Rödl	4.4
6	FRA Laurent Sciarra	4.3
7	LTU Artūras Karnišovas	3.9
8	POL Maciej Zieliński	3.8
9	ISR Oded Kattash	3.7
10	BIH Adis Bećiragić	3.6

Steals

Pos.	Name	SPG
1	LAT Raimonds Miglinieks	3.8
2	ISR Oded Kattash	3.6
3	LAT Roberts Štelmahers	3.2
4	GRE Angelos Koronios	3.1
5	LTU Gintaras Einikis	3.0
5	RUS Igor Kudelin	3.0
5	POL Maciej Zieliński	3.0
5	CRO Vladan Alanović	3.0
5	SLO Jure Zdovc	3.0
10	ITA Riccardo Pittis	2.9

Minutes

Pos.	Name	MPG
1	ISR Oded Kattash	38.4
2	LTU Artūras Karnišovas	36.2
3	ISR Tomer Steinhauer	34.5
4	POL Maciej Zieliński	33.7
5	ISR Nadav Henefeld	33.6
6	FRA Thierry Gadou	33.3
7	GER Denis Wucherer	33.1
8	LAT Raimonds Miglinieks	32.6
9	UKR Dmytro Bazelevsky	31.8
10	GER Henrik Rödl	31.5

Individual Game Highs

Department	Name	Total
Points	BIH Nenad Marković	44
Rebounds	RUS Mikhail Mikhaylov
TUR Mirsad Türkcan	15

Assists	CRO Damir Mulaomerović	11
Steals	5 Players	7
Turnovers	GER Denis Wucherer	8

Team Tournament Highs

Offensive PPG

Pos.	Name	PPG
1	****	82.6
2		81.8
3		81.0
3		80.0
5		78.7

Rebounds

Pos.	Name	RPG
1	****	27.4
2		25.0
2		24.9
4		24.8
5		24.2

Assists

Pos.	Name	APG
1	****	18.0
2		15.5
3		13.9
4		13.6
5		13.3

Steals

Pos.	Name	SPG
1	****	19.7
2		16.8
3		15.2
4		14.8
5		14.4

Team Game highs

Department	Name	Total	Opponent
Points		108
Rebounds		37
Assists		25
Steals		26
Field goal percentage		63.8% (30/47)
3-point field goal percentage		70.0% (7/10)
Free throw percentage		90.3% (10/11)
Turnovers		24

Awards

1997 FIBA EuroBasket MVP: Sašha Đjorđjević (FR Yugoslavia Yugoslavia)

All-Tournament Team
FR Yugoslavia Saša Đorđević (MVP)
Poland Dominik Tomczyk
FR Yugoslavia Dejan Bodiroga
FR Yugoslavia Željko Rebrača
RUS Mikhail Mikhaylov

Final standings

	Qualified for the 1998 FIBA World Championship as host

Rank	Team	Record
		8–1
		8–1
		7–2
4		7–2
5		6–3
6		5–4
7		4–5
8		3–6
9		4–4
10		2–6
11		2–6
12		1–7
13		3–2
14		1–4
15		1–4
16		0–5

** Dejan Bodiroga
Predrag Danilović
Saša Obradović
Nikola Lončar
Miroslav Radošević
Miroslav Berić
Aleksandar Đorđević
Željko Rebrača
Nikola Bulatović
Zoran Savić
Dejan Tomašević
Milenko Topić**	Claudio Coldebella	Vasily Karasev
Igor Kudelin
Igor Kurashov
Evgeni Kisurin
Evgeniy Pashutin
Dmitry Shakulin
Sergei Babkov
Mikhail Mikhaylov
Zakhar Pashutin
Andrei Fetisov
Sergei Panov
Vitaliy Nosov	Georgios Kalaitzis
Kostas Patavoukas
Nikos Boudouris
Dimitrios Papanikolaou
Giorgos Sigalas
Angelos Koronios
Fragiskos Alvertis
Nikos Oikonomou
Christos Myriounis
Giannis Giannoulis
Efthimios Rentzias
Fanis Christodoulou

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20141209183552/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/statistics/p/rpp//tid/0/sid/2266/sp/ALL/ss/PPG/srid/ALL/_/1997_European_Championship_for_Men/player-leaders.html PPG Leaders] at FIBA.com
[https://web.archive.org/web/20141209194619/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/statistics/p/rpp//tid/0/sid/2266/sp/ALL/ss/RB/srid/ALL/_/1997_European_Championship_for_Men/player-leaders.html RPG Leaders] at FIBA.com
[https://web.archive.org/web/20141209200329/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/statistics/p/rpp//tid/0/sid/2266/sp/ALL/ss/AS/srid/ALL/_/1997_European_Championship_for_Men/player-leaders.html APG Leaders] at FIBA.com
[https://web.archive.org/web/20141209184011/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/statistics/p/rpp//tid/0/sid/2266/sp/ALL/ss/STE/srid/ALL/_/1997_European_Championship_for_Men/player-leaders.html SPG Leaders] at FIBA.com
[https://web.archive.org/web/20141209185622/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/statistics/p/rpp//tid/0/sid/2266/sp/ALL/ss/MI/srid/ALL/_/1997_European_Championship_for_Men/player-leaders.html MPG Leaders] at FIBA.com
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[https://web.archive.org/web/20141209193009/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/statistics/p/rpp//tid/0/sid/2266/ss/AS/srid/ALL/_/1997_European_Championship_for_Men/teams-leaders.html Team Leaders – APG]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20141209174745/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/statistics/p/rpp//tid/0/sid/2266/ss/STE/srid/ALL/_/1997_European_Championship_for_Men/teams-leaders.html Team Leaders – SPG]
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