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1997 ABC Championship

Field	Value
tourney_name	ABC Championship
year	1997
other_titles	19th Asian Basketball Championship
size	150px
country	Saudi Arabia
dates	September 11–19
num_teams	15
venues	1
cities	1
champion	South Korea
champion-flagvar	1984
count	2
second	Japan
second-flagvar	1870
third	China
fourth	Saudi Arabia
mvp	KOR Chun Hee-Chul
prevseason	[1995](1995-abc-championship)
nextseason	[1999](1999-abc-championship)

| champion-flagvar = 1984 | second-flagvar = 1870 The 1997 Men's Asian Basketball Confederation Championship was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Qualification

According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts (Saudi Arabia) and the best 5 teams of the previous Asian Championship were automatically qualified.

East Asia (4+2)	Gulf (1+2)	Middle Asia (1+2)	Southeast Asia (2)	West Asia (2)
TBD

Preliminary round

Group A

Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
3	3	0	280	198	+82	6
3	2	1	215	242	−27	5
3	1	2	197	214	−17	4
3	0	3	216	254	−38	3

Group B

Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
3	3	0	326	196	+130	6
3	2	1	262	180	+82	5
3	1	2	257	237	+20	4
3	0	3	152	384	−232	3

Group C

Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
2	2	0	165	129	+36	4
2	1	1	163	139	+24	3
2	0	2	116	176	−60	2

Group D

Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
3	3	0	205	168	+37	6
3	2	1	197	184	+13	5
3	1	2	226	203	+23	4
3	0	3	176	249	−73	3

Quarterfinal round

Group I

Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
3	3	0	263	178	+85	6
3	2	1	223	220	+3	5
3	1	2	207	232	−25	4
3	0	3	180	243	−63	3

Group II

Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tiebreaker
3	2	1	265	251	+14	5	1–0
3	2	1	282	245	+37	5	0–1
3	1	2	217	235	−18	4	1–0
3	1	2	233	266	−33	4	0–1

Group III

Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
3	3	0	264	176	+88	6
3	2	1	266	186	+80	5
3	1	2	236	223	+13	4
3	0	3	137	318	−181	3

Group IV

Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
2	2	0	173	143	+30	4
2	1	1	156	172	−16	3
2	0	2	157	171	−14	2

Classification 5th–14th

13th place

11th place

9th place

7th place

5th place

Final round

|September 18||72||86 |September 18||92||108 |September 19||78||76 |September 19||94||68

Semifinals

3rd place

Final

Final standings

	Qualified for the [1998 FIBA World Championship](1998-fiba-world-championship)

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

Awards

Most Valuable Player: KOR Chun Hee-Chul
Best Scorer: BHR Abdulmajeed Ali
Best Playmaker: KOR Kang Dong-Hee
Best 3-Pointer: KAZ Alexey Yeropkin
Best Coach: KOR Kim Dong-Kwang
Sportsmanship Award: PHI Romel Adducul

References

Florian Wanninger. (2002). "FIBA 1930-2001 Results". FIBA.

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