The 1999 FIBA European Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket 1999, was the 31st regional championship held by FIBA Europe. The competition was hosted by France and took place between June 21 to July 3, 1999. [edit] Qualification [edit] Format - The top three teams from each group advanced to the qualifying round, in which they were separated into two groups.
- Results and standings among teams within the same group were carried over.
- The top four teams at the qualifying round advanced to the knockout quarterfinals.
- The winners in the knockout semifinals advanced to the Final. The losers figured in a third-place playoff.
[edit] Tie-breaking criteria Ties were broken via the following the criteria, with the first option used first, all the way down to the last option: - Head to head results
- Basket difference between the tied teams
- Goal average of the tied teams for all teams in its group
[edit] Squads At the start of tournament, all 16 participating countries had 12 players on their roster. [edit] Venues [edit] Preliminary round | Qualified for the qualifying round | - Times given below are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).
[edit] Group A [edit] Group B | Team | Pts. | W | L | PCT | PF | PA | Diff | First Tiebreaker
Record in Games Against Tied Teams | Second Tiebreaker
Basket difference
between the tied teams |  Russia | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 210 | 191 | +19 | 1-1 | +18 |  Spain | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 231 | 229 | +2 | 1-1 | -7 |  Slovenia | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 204 | 209 | −5 | 1-1 | -11 |  Hungary | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.000 | 229 | 247 | −18 | [edit] Group C [edit] Group D [edit] Qualifying round | Qualified for the quarterfinals | [edit] Group E | Team | Pts. | W | L | PCT | PF | PA | Diff | First Tiebreaker
Record in Games Against Tied Teams |  Yugoslavia | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0.833 | 443 | 386 | +57 | 1-0 |  France | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0.833 | 414 | 384 | +30 | 0-1 | | Russia | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0.667 | 441 | 409 | +32 | | Spain | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0.500 | 439 | 454 | −15 |  Israel | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0.333 | 416 | 467 | −51 | 1-0 | | Slovenia | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0.333 | 405 | 421 | −16 | 0-1 | [edit] Group F | Team | Pts. | W | L | PCT | PF | PA | Diff | First Tiebreaker
Record in Games Against Tied Teams |  Lithuania | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0.833 | 467 | 401 | +66 |  Italy | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0.667 | 427 | 385 | +42 | 1-0 |  Turkey | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0.667 | 377 | 371 | +6 | 0-1 |  Germany | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0.500 | 420 | 432 | −12 | 1-0 |  Croatia | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0.500 | 444 | 454 | −10 | 0-1 |  Czech Republic | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0.333 | 434 | 470 | −36 | [edit] Knockout stage [edit] Championship bracket
[edit] 5th place bracket [edit] Quarterfinals [edit] Classification rounds [edit] Semifinals [edit] Third place game [edit] Awards | Eurobasket 1999 Champions | 
Italy
Second title |
[edit] All-Tournament Team [edit] Top scorers (ppg) - Alberto Herreros (Spain) 19.2
- Lubos Barton (Czech Republic) 18.6
- Doron Sheffer (Israel) 16.6
- Carlton Myers (Italy) 16.3
- Antoine Rigaudeau (France) 15.5
- Dirk Nowitzki (Germany) 15.2
- Toni Kukoc (Croatia) 14.5
- Arturas Karnisovas (Lithuania) 14.2
- Vasili Karasev (Russia) 14.16
- Dejan Bodiroga (Yugoslavia) 14.11
- Jure Zdovc (Slovenia) 13.6
- Igor Kudelin (Russia) 13.4
[edit] Conclusion [edit] Final standings
[edit] Team Rosters 1.Italy: Gregor Fučka, Carlton Myers, Andrea Meneghin, Roberto Chiacig, Denis Marconato, Alessandro Abbio, Alessandro De Pol, Gianluca Basile, Giacomo Galanda, Davide Bonora, Marcelo Damiao, Michele Mian (Coach: Bogdan Tanjević) 2.Spain: Alberto Herreros, Roberto Dueñas, Roger Esteller, Carlos Jiménez, Ignacio De Miguel, Ignacio "Nacho" Rodriguez, Alfonso Reyes, Rodrigo De la Fuente, Alberto Angulo, José Ignacio "Nacho" Rodilla, Juan Ignacio Romero, Iván Corrales (Coach: Manuel "Lolo" Sainz) 3.Yugoslavia: Vlade Divac, Predrag Stojaković, Dejan Bodiroga, Predrag Danilović, Dragan Tarlac, Saša Obradović, Dejan Tomašević, Milan Gurović, Nikola Lonćar, Milenko Topić, Dragan Lukovski, Vlado Šćepanović (Coach: Željko Obradović) 4.France: Antoine Rigaudeau, Tariq Abdul-Wahad, Stephane Risacher, Laurent Foirest, Laurent Sciarra, Alain Digbeu, Jim Bilba, Moustapha Sonko, Ronnie Smith, Cyril Julian, Frederic Weis, Thierry Gadou (Coach: Jean-Pierre de Vincenzi) [edit] External links |
