Angola regain AfroBasket glory with convincing win over Mali

 
   Host Angola, has won their 12th African Basketball title convincingly beating Mali 70-43 on Sunday night in Luanda.

Angola won all the four quarters of the game taking the 1st quarter 14-10; 2nd quarter 18-10 before half time scores that stood at 32-20 in their favour.

She again won the 3rd quarter 19-11 but there were two interruptions, some stoppages under timeouts as the 4th quarter ended 19-12.

The Angolans finished their campaign as the only undefeated team. They finished with a perfect 6-0 record.

For the third night in a row, all 12,700 seats at the Kilamba Arena in the capital city of Luanda sold out to watch Angola play.

Mali attempted an outstanding record of the first win in their 20 appearances but winning Silver now was a breakthrough to their best performance of Bronze won in 1972. Mali had placed 4th five times before in 1968; 1987; 1989; 1992 and 1999.

Angola now has a record of 12 title wins; 4 Silver medals and 2 Bronze medals making them Best in Africa.

Mali and Angola had met thrice before with Angola winning all the three games with the highest scoring record of 82-36 in the match played on 26th August 2013 of which the victory of today 70-43 did not break.

Earlier in the third place match, Lions of Senegal also overwhelmingly defeated Indomitable Lions of Cameroon 98-72 to take home the Bronze medal.

Childe Dundao of Angola was voted the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the tournament and was selected for the 2025 All-Tournament Team, as was his teammate Bruno Fernando and the duo from Mali, Mahamane Coulibaly and Aliou Diarra, as well as Brancou Badio from Senegal.

Other awards included Fair Play (Madagascar), Leading Rebounder (Diarra), Leading Three-Point Shooter (Badio), and Leading Scorer (Badio).

Final Standing of the 2025 FIBA AfroBasket
1. Angola (6-0)
2. Mali (4-3)
3. Senegal (5-2)
4. Cameroon (4-3)
5. Nigeria (3-1)
6. Egypt (3-1)
7. Côte d'Ivoire (3-1)
8. Cape Verde (3-2)
9. Guinea (2-2)
10. South Sudan (1-3)
11. Congo DR (1-3)
12. Tunisia (1-3)
13. Rwanda (0-3)
14. Madagascar (0-3)
15. Uganda (0-3)
16. Libya (0-3)

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