1974 FIBA World Championship
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The 1974 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball
competition hosted by Puerto Rico
from July 3 to 14, 1974.
Wayne Brabender
Alejandro Urgelles Alexander Salnikov
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
competition hosted by Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
from July 3 to 14, 1974.
Venues
| Group | City | Arena | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Group A | Ponce Ponce, Puerto Rico Ponce is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government.The city of Ponce, the fourth most populated in Puerto Rico, and the most populated outside of the San Juan metropolitan area, is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the... |
Auditorio Pachín Vicéns Juan Pachín Vicéns Auditorium The Auditorio Juan Pachín Vicéns , formerly, Coliseo Juan Pachín Vicéns, is a sports venue in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico... |
8,000 |
| Group B and Final round | San Juan San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of... |
Coliseo Roberto Clemente | 12,000 |
| Group C and Classification round | Caguas | Coliseo Héctor Solá Bezares | 10,000 |
Competing nations
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Final round |
|---|---|---|---|
- host - defending champion |
Preliminary round
| Qualified for the final round | |
| Qualified for the classification round |
Group A
| Team | Pts. | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 3 | 0 | 314 | 188 | ||
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 254 | 211 | ||
| 4 | 1 | 2 | 264 | 277 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 184 | 340 | ||
Group B
| Team | Pts. | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 3 | 0 | 358 | 242 | ||
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 284 | 288 | ||
| 4 | 1 | 2 | 286 | 295 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 260 | 363 | ||
Group C
| Team | Pts. | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 3 | 0 | 233 | 218 | ||
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 242 | 224 | ||
| 4 | 1 | 2 | 224 | 228 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 232 | 261 | ||
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 | 482 | 428 | ||||
| 9 | 4 | 1 | 518 | 451 | ||||
| 7 | 2 | 3 | 517 | 471 | 1W-1L | 1.099 | ||
| 7 | 2 | 3 | 446 | 442 | 1W-1L | 1.005 | ||
| 7 | 2 | 3 | 474 | 517 | ||||
| 1W-1L | 0.905 | |||||||
| 5 | 0 | 5 | 375 | 523 | ||||
Final round
| Team | Pts. | W | L | PF | PA | PD | | First Tiebreaker Classification for Tied Teams | |Second Tiebreaker Goal Average for Tied Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 6 | 1 | 625 | 509 | +116 | 1W-1L | 1.045 | |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | 629 | 568 | +61 | 1W-1L | 1.000 | |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | 694 | 587 | +107 | 1W-1L | 0.959 | |
| 10 | 3 | 4 | 565 | 599 | -34 | |||
| 9 | 2 | 5 | 556 | 640 | -84 | 2W-0L | ||
| 9 | 2 | 5 | 522 | 586 | -64 | 1W-1L | ||
| 9 | 2 | 5 | 568 | 620 | -52 | 0W-2L | ||
| 8 | 1 | 6 | 566 | 616 | -50 |
Final ranking
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All-Tournament Team
Alexander Belov Vinko JelovacVinko Jelovac
Vinko Jelovac , is a former Croatian basketball player and coach.A long time KK Olimpija player, Jelovac competed at 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics with Yugoslav basketball team. He also competed at World basketball Championships. Jelovac was named Slovenian Sportsman of the year in 1973 and 1974.-...
Wayne Brabender
Wayne Brabender
Wayne Donald Brabender Cole is a retired American-Spanish basketball player, who acquired Spanish citizenship on May 22, 1968....
Alejandro Urgelles Alexander Salnikov
Top scorers (ppg)
- Arturo Guerrero (Mexico) 27
- Manuel RagaManuel RagaManuel Raga Navarro is a retired Mexican basketball player.-Career:Nicknamed the "Flying Mexican", Raga played professionally for Pallacanestro Varese in Italy from 1968 to 1973 and won 3 Euroleague championships.In 1970, he became the first player from an international league to be selected in...
(Mexico) 26.1 - Eddie Palubinskas (Australia) 24.8
- Ernesto Ghermann (Argentina) 23.7
- Wayne BrabenderWayne BrabenderWayne Donald Brabender Cole is a retired American-Spanish basketball player, who acquired Spanish citizenship on May 22, 1968....
(Spain) 23 - Luther BurdenLuther BurdenLuther "Ticky" Burden is a retired American NBA and ABA basketball player.-College:Burden attended the University of Utah...
(USA) 20.2 - John LucasJohn Lucas IIJohn Harding Lucas II is a retired American professional basketball player and a current assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers.-Basketball playing career and substance abuse:...
(USA) 19.7 - Dragan KićanovićDragan KicanovicDragan Kićanović is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. A 1.91m tall shooting guard, he played in the 70's and 80's and is considered as one of the best European players and scorers of all time, having won both the Mr. Europa and the Euroscar European Player of the Year awards in...
(Yugoslavia) 18.8 - Alejandro Urgelles (Cuba) 18.5
- Alexander Salnikov (USSR) 17.5