Basketball at the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie

Basketball competition

The basketball competition at the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie was held between 28 September and 5 October. The events took place at the courts of Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut, in Lebanon. Romania won the competition overall, beating runners up Senegal in the final. Both a men's and a women's tournament was announced in the programme but a schedule conflict with the EuroBasket 2009 tournament meant that only the women's competition was held.

Cyprus, originally the leaders of Group A, were disqualified from the competition. It was discovered that some of the country's team members were not fully naturalised citizens, including one American, one Polish, one Serbian and two Croat players. The organizers proposed, in keeping with the spirit of the Games, to maintain the scheduled match against France but its result was not taken into account.^[1]^[2]

Women's competition

Group stage

Group A
Team	Won	Lost	Points for	Points against	Difference	Total points
France	4	1	244	216	28	9
Tunisia	3	2	262	291	−29	8
Mali	2	3	264	288	−24	7
Quebec	1	4	286	342	−56	6
Ivory Coast	1	4	293	321	−28	6
Cyprus (DSQ)	4	1	309	200	109	–

Group B
Team	Won	Lost	Points for	Points against	Difference	Total points
Romania	4	0	325	239	86	8
Senegal	3	1	306	242	64	7
Lebanon	2	2	262	299	−37	6
FC Belgium	1	3	282	316	−34	5
Cameroon	0	4	224	303	−79	4

Finals

Semifinals		Final

^[3]

Romania	55
		^[5]
Tunisia	49
		Romania	70
^[4]
		Senegal	53
Senegal	74

France	59
		Third place

		^[6]

		Tunisia	61

		France	52

5th place playoff^[7]

1	Mali	57

2	Lebanon	65

7th place playoff^[8]

1	Quebec	75

2	French Community of Belgium	73

9th place playoff^[9]

1	Ivory Coast	95

2	Cameroon	63

References

^ Bouchafra-Hennequin, Ismaël. "Basket féminin : la Chypre disqualifiée des Jeux de la Francophonie - Le blog d'Ismaël Bouchafra-Hennequin". Sport et nationalite. Archived from the original (Blog) on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
^ Organisation internationale de la francophonie (2009). "6ème journée : nouveau record en longueur, Meite le plus rapide". jeux francophonie. Archived from the original on 6 October 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
^ 4 October Archived October 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
^ 4 October Archived October 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
^ 5 October Archived October 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
^ 5 October Archived October 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
^ 5th place playoff Archived October 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ 7th place playoff Archived October 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ 9th place playoff Archived October 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine