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Greece 1998 World Cup

16 teams · 62 games

Final standings

# Team W L
1 Yugoslavia 8 1
2 Russia 7 2
3 United States 7 2
4 Greece 5 4
5 Spain 7 2
6 Italy 5 4
7 Lithuania 5 4
8 Argentina 3 6
9 Australia 5 3
10 Brazil 2 6
11 Puerto Rico 3 5
12 Canada 1 7
13 Nigeria 2 3
14 Japan 1 4
15 Senegal 1 4
16 South Korea 0 5

Games

Group B

  1. Japan 58 83 Russia Wed, Jul 29
  2. Yugoslavia 80 66 Puerto Rico Wed, Jul 29
  3. Puerto Rico 78 57 Japan Thu, Jul 30
  4. Russia 74 82 Yugoslavia Thu, Jul 30
  5. Japan 54 99 Yugoslavia Fri, Jul 31
  6. Puerto Rico 73 86 Russia Fri, Jul 31

Group C

  1. South Korea 56 97 Lithuania Wed, Jul 29
  2. United States 83 59 Brazil Wed, Jul 29
  3. Brazil 76 73 South Korea Thu, Jul 30
  4. Lithuania 84 82 United States Thu, Jul 30
  5. Brazil 62 66 Lithuania Fri, Jul 31
  6. South Korea 62 88 United States Fri, Jul 31

Group A

  1. Senegal 66 76 Italy Wed, Jul 29
  2. Greece 78 72 Canada Wed, Jul 29
  3. Canada 70 57 Senegal Thu, Jul 30
  4. Italy 56 64 Greece Thu, Jul 30
  5. Canada 69 79 Italy Fri, Jul 31
  6. Senegal 57 68 Greece Fri, Jul 31

Group D

  1. Nigeria 68 80 Spain Wed, Jul 29
  2. Australia 62 66 Argentina Wed, Jul 29
  3. Argentina 68 51 Nigeria Thu, Jul 30
  4. Spain 77 76 Australia Thu, Jul 30
  5. Nigeria 64 70 Australia Fri, Jul 31
  6. Argentina 67 68 Spain Fri, Jul 31

Classification round

  1. Senegal 55 60 Japan Sun, Aug 2
  2. South Korea 65 89 Nigeria Sun, Aug 2
  3. Senegal 75 72 South Korea Mon, Aug 3
  4. Japan 60 70 Nigeria Mon, Aug 3

Round of 16, group E

  1. Yugoslavia 95 55 Canada Sun, Aug 2
  2. Russia 71 55 Italy Sun, Aug 2
  3. Puerto Rico 64 71 Greece Sun, Aug 2
  4. Canada 81 94 Puerto Rico Mon, Aug 3
  5. Italy 61 60 Yugoslavia Mon, Aug 3
  6. Greece 48 60 Russia Mon, Aug 3
  7. Russia 81 72 Canada Tue, Aug 4
  8. Puerto Rico 63 68 Italy Tue, Aug 4
  9. Yugoslavia 70 56 Greece Tue, Aug 4

Round of 16, group F

  1. Australia 71 61 Lithuania Sun, Aug 2
  2. Argentina 74 87 United States Sun, Aug 2
  3. Spain 73 63 Brazil Sun, Aug 2
  4. Lithuania 84 75 Argentina Mon, Aug 3
  5. Brazil 63 75 Australia Mon, Aug 3
  6. United States 75 73 Spain Mon, Aug 3
  7. Spain 86 80 Lithuania Tue, Aug 4
  8. Argentina 86 76 Brazil Tue, Aug 4
  9. Australia 78 96 United States Tue, Aug 4

Quarter-finals

  1. Puerto Rico 64 76 Brazil Fri, Aug 7
  2. Canada 71 88 Australia Fri, Aug 7
  3. Russia 82 67 Lithuania Fri, Aug 7
  4. Italy 77 80 United States Fri, Aug 7
  5. Yugoslavia 70 62 Argentina Fri, Aug 7
  6. Greece 69 62 Spain Fri, Aug 7

Semi-finals

  1. Puerto Rico 92 81 Canada Sat, Aug 8
  2. Brazil 75 79 Australia Sat, Aug 8
  3. Lithuania 71 76 Italy Sat, Aug 8
  4. Argentina 64 77 Spain Sat, Aug 8
  5. Russia 66 64 United States Sat, Aug 8
  6. Yugoslavia 78 73 Greece Sat, Aug 8

Finals

  1. Lithuania 77 76 Argentina Sun, Aug 9
  2. Italy 61 64 Spain Sun, Aug 9
  3. United States 84 61 Greece Sun, Aug 9
  4. Russia 62 64 Yugoslavia Sun, Aug 9

Leaders

Points

  1. Alberto Herreros Ros Spain
    161 points
  2. Arturas Karnisovas Lithuania
    154 points
  3. Vasily Karasev Russia
    145 points
  4. Shane Heal Australia
    136 points
  5. Andrew Gaze Australia
    135 points

Points per game (min. 4 games)

  1. Alberto Herreros Ros Spain
    17.9 per game
  2. Mohammed Acha Nigeria
    17.5 per game
  3. Arturas Karnisovas Lithuania
    17.1 per game
  4. Shane Heal Australia
    17.0 per game
  5. Andrew Gaze Australia
    16.9 per game

Rebounds

  1. José Rafael Ortiz-Rijos Puerto Rico
    10.5 per game
  2. Fabricio Oberto Argentina
    10.4 per game
  3. Gregory Michael Newton Canada
    10.1 per game
  4. Obinna Ekezie Nigeria
    9.6 per game
  5. Zeljko Rebraca Yugoslavia
    9.1 per game

Assists

  1. Shane Heal Australia
    4.5 per game
  2. Sang-Min Lee South Korea
    4.2 per game
  3. Steve Michael Hawkins United States
    4.1 per game
  4. Andrew Gaze Australia
    3.4 per game
  5. Ignacio Rodriguez Marín Spain
    3.4 per game

Rosters and stats

Yugoslavia · #1

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Dejan Bodiroga 9 293 132 14.7 4.9 2.2
Zeljko Rebraca 9 263 122 13.6 9.1 1.0
Sasa Obradovic 9 211 81 9.0 1.3 1.1
Miroslav Beric 9 231 74 8.2 1.4 1.4
Milenko Topic 9 197 60 6.7 4.7 0.8
Dejan Tomasevic 9 184 56 6.2 5.7 0.9
Aleksander Djordjevic Garic 8 116 54 6.8 1.0 0.8
Vlado Scepanovic 9 152 41 4.6 1.0 0.9
Dragan Lukovski 8 100 39 4.9 1.4 1.4
Predrag Drobnjak 4 37 16 4.0 3.0 0.0
Nikola Bulatovic 6 57 15 2.5 2.5 0.2
Nikola Loncar Arsenijevic 2 9 8 4.0 0.5 0.0

Russia · #2

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Vasily Karasev 9 333 145 16.1 1.9 2.1
Serguei Babkov 9 214 121 13.4 1.8 1.1
Mikhail Mikhaylov 9 223 76 8.4 6.2 0.4
Sergey Panov 9 236 73 8.1 5.2 2.0
Igor Kudelin 9 171 65 7.2 1.8 0.7
Evgeny Kisurin 9 217 52 5.8 4.1 1.4
Vitaly Nosov 9 129 36 4.0 4.9 0.4
Valeri Tikhonenko 8 81 33 4.1 0.9 0.1
Zakhar Pashutin 9 76 30 3.3 1.6 0.4
Nikita Morgunov 5 46 18 3.6 1.6 1.0
Dmitry Domani 9 95 16 1.8 1.0 0.7
Igor Kurashov 1 4 0 0.0 3.0 0.0

United States · #3

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Jimmy Oliver 9 232 106 11.8 2.8 1.0
Wendell Paul Alexis 9 200 104 11.6 4.0 0.4
Jason Jermane Sasser 9 187 96 10.7 3.7 0.6
Jimmy King 9 170 81 9.0 2.0 1.8
Steve Michael Hawkins 9 242 69 7.7 2.2 4.1
Gerard King 9 146 53 5.9 5.3 0.8
Kiwane Garris 9 128 53 5.9 1.3 1.1
Brad Miller 9 108 47 5.2 3.3 0.8
David Wood 9 140 44 4.9 2.9 0.4
Ashraf Amaya 9 109 40 4.4 4.7 0.2
William Allen Edwards 7 88 26 3.7 2.0 0.9
Trajan Langdon 7 50 20 2.9 0.9 0.4

Greece · #4

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Fragkiskos Alvertis 9 262 119 13.2 6.4 1.0
Nikolaos Oikonomou 9 301 107 11.9 4.4 1.4
Dimitrios Papanikolaou 9 183 85 9.4 3.8 0.9
Evangelos Koronios 9 227 82 9.1 1.3 2.0
Panagiotis Fassoulas 9 215 52 5.8 5.8 0.4
George Ballogannis 9 141 40 4.4 1.4 0.3
Georgios Sigalas 9 160 35 3.9 1.9 1.3
Efthimios Rentzias 9 92 32 3.6 2.0 0.4
Georgios Kalaitzis 5 64 18 3.6 0.6 0.4
Nikolaos Bountouris 8 74 9 1.1 0.6 1.0
Jake Tsakalidis 9 86 7 0.8 2.0 0.0
Georgios Karagkoutis 4 20 2 0.5 0.5 0.0

Spain · #5

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Alberto Herreros Ros 9 297 161 17.9 2.7 2.0
Alfonso Reyes Cabanas 9 244 104 11.6 7.2 0.2
Ignacio Rodriguez Marín 9 234 79 8.8 2.4 3.4
Juan Antonio Orenga Forcada 9 214 75 8.3 4.1 0.6
Francisco A. Angulo Espinosa 8 130 62 7.8 0.9 1.0
Iñaki De Miguel 9 169 53 5.9 3.8 0.2
Rodrigo De La Fuente 7 122 30 4.3 3.1 0.7
Carlos Jimenez 7 122 25 3.6 4.4 1.0
Roberto Dueñas Hernandez 9 113 24 2.7 3.4 0.2
José Ignacio Rodilla Gil 6 92 18 3.0 1.7 0.5
José Antonio Paraiso Gonzalez 5 69 17 3.4 2.2 0.4
Ignacio Azofra De La Cuesta 3 44 12 4.0 0.3 1.3

Italy · #6

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Gregor Fucka 9 235 120 13.3 5.0 0.9
Carlton Ettore Francesco Myers 7 181 85 12.1 2.4 1.0
Andrea Meneghin 9 236 76 8.4 2.3 1.3
Alessandro Abbio 7 160 70 10.0 2.9 0.4
Roberto Chiacig 9 168 69 7.7 6.2 0.3
Gianmarco Pozzecco 6 89 41 6.8 0.8 1.2
Gianluca Basile 9 155 35 3.9 0.9 1.2
Giacomo Galanda 9 120 32 3.6 3.0 0.1
Davide Bonora 9 161 27 3.0 1.1 1.7
Dilglay Marcelo Damio 9 152 24 2.7 2.7 0.2
Alessandro De Pol 8 106 20 2.5 1.0 0.5
Alessandro Frosini 4 37 10 2.5 2.0 0.0

Lithuania · #7

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Arturas Karnisovas 9 298 154 17.1 6.0 1.6
Saulius Stombergas 9 239 120 13.3 3.4 1.7
Darius Lukminas 9 151 79 8.8 1.7 1.0
Gintaras Einikis 8 189 68 8.5 4.1 0.6
Dainius Adomaitis 9 187 65 7.2 2.0 0.8
Eurelijus Zukauskas 9 169 49 5.4 5.2 0.1
Sarunas Jasikevicius 9 113 41 4.6 1.0 1.4
Virginijus Praskevicius 8 100 40 5.0 3.9 0.3
Tomas Masiulis 5 103 33 6.6 5.6 1.2
Darius Maskoliunas 9 189 30 3.3 2.3 1.2
Tomas Pacesas 5 71 8 1.6 1.6 2.2
Mindaugas Zukauskas 2 16 0 0.0 1.5 0.5

Argentina · #8

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Juan Alberto Espil Vanotti 9 255 127 14.1 1.7 1.8
Fabricio Oberto 9 249 116 12.9 10.4 1.6
Marcelo Nicola 9 235 111 12.3 4.1 1.1
Hugo Ariel Sconochini 8 184 75 9.4 1.9 1.1
Alejandro Ariel Montecchia 9 150 49 5.4 1.3 1.6
Manu Ginobili 6 111 47 7.8 2.0 1.2
Ruben Wolkowisky 9 123 30 3.3 3.3 0.1
Marcelo Gustavo Milanesio 9 206 28 3.1 1.6 3.1
Diego Marcelo Osella 5 96 27 5.4 4.2 0.8
Esteban Pablo De La Fuente 8 155 16 2.0 2.5 1.3
Carlos Patricio Simoni 5 34 12 2.4 1.0 0.0
Pepe Sanchez 5 27 0 0.0 0.2 1.0

Australia · #9

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Shane Heal 8 305 136 17.0 1.8 4.5
Andrew Gaze 8 274 135 16.9 3.0 3.4
Chris Anstey 8 143 77 9.6 6.0 0.3
Paul Andrew Rogers 8 158 61 7.6 6.5 0.3
Anthony Dean Ronaldson 8 199 56 7.0 3.6 1.5
Sam Mackinnon 8 180 51 6.4 3.8 1.5
Brett Steven Maher 8 65 25 3.1 0.6 0.3
Simon Dwight 3 54 22 7.3 5.0 0.7
Andrew Mitchell Vlahov 8 139 21 2.6 2.5 0.6
Scott Charles Fisher 8 56 9 1.1 0.8 0.1
Benjamin James Melmeth 3 14 6 2.0 0.0 0.7
Frank Drmic 4 13 0 0.0 0.5 0.0

Brazil · #10

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Rogério Klafke 8 297 109 13.6 2.8 1.1
Joao Vianna 8 248 102 12.8 6.4 0.9
Marco A. Pegolo Dos Santos 6 150 64 10.7 1.8 1.3
Aristides Josuel Dos Santos 8 195 59 7.4 4.4 1.1
André Luis Guimarães Fonseca 8 166 57 7.1 1.4 2.3
Demétrius Conrado Ferraciú 8 213 54 6.8 3.3 2.6
Caio Eduardo de M. Cazziolato 5 115 41 8.2 1.8 0.6
Sandro França Varejão 7 58 20 2.9 2.9 0.0
Hélio Rubens Garcia Filho 6 49 19 3.2 0.5 0.5
Joelcio Joerke 7 67 19 2.7 2.7 0.1
Cláudio Antonio G. Clemente 5 27 4 0.8 0.8 0.0
Marcelinho Machado 2 15 2 1.0 1.0 0.0

Puerto Rico · #11

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
José Rafael Ortiz-Rijos 8 248 132 16.5 10.5 1.8
Orlando Vega Smith 8 232 113 14.1 3.5 1.3
Eddie Casiano 7 203 88 12.6 1.4 0.9
Jerome Alfred Mincy 8 210 72 9.0 4.9 0.9
Eddin Orlando Santiago Cordero 8 76 39 4.9 0.5 1.0
Javier Antonio Colon 8 193 34 4.3 2.0 1.6
Carmelo Travieso Peña 8 111 30 3.8 1.1 0.6
James Raymond Carter 6 79 27 4.5 1.2 0.8
Daniel Santiago 7 67 21 3.0 2.0 0.0
Edgar Francisco León 7 87 19 2.7 1.9 0.1
Rolando Hourruitiner Ortiz 8 61 13 1.6 0.8 0.1
Eugenio Felipe Soto Diaz 6 33 6 1.0 1.3 0.0

Canada · #12

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Gregory Michael Newton 8 186 92 11.5 10.1 0.1
Sherman Oneil Hamilton 8 217 81 10.1 2.5 2.3
Michael Alexander Meeks 8 125 65 8.1 4.8 0.9
Rowan Barrett 8 194 64 8.0 1.9 0.6
Joel David Vickery 8 172 62 7.8 1.3 1.5
Peter Anthony Guarasci 8 140 59 7.4 4.8 0.8
Martin Luther Keane 8 108 48 6.0 4.0 0.9
Todd MacCulloch 4 70 27 6.8 4.0 0.5
William Chidi Njoku 8 118 26 3.3 3.1 0.3
Kory Robert Hallas 7 92 20 2.9 1.3 0.7
Gregory André Francis 6 66 16 2.7 1.0 0.8
David Harley Daniels 8 112 11 1.4 0.8 1.6

Nigeria · #13

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Mohammed Acha 4 136 70 17.5 5.0 0.5
Tunji Awojobi 5 148 62 12.4 6.4 1.4
Obinna Ekezie 5 146 55 11.0 9.6 1.2
Kingsley Ogwudire 5 154 54 10.8 2.4 2.8
Robert Daniel Chibuzo Okonkwo 5 95 25 5.0 2.8 1.8
Yinka Dare 3 82 21 7.0 8.0 1.7
Oladipo Solomon Ayinla 5 76 19 3.8 1.4 0.4
Julius Nwosu 2 61 16 8.0 7.0 0.0
Godwin Friday Owinje 4 37 8 2.0 1.8 0.8
Dominic Okon 3 31 6 2.0 1.0 0.3
Emeka Okenwa 2 28 6 3.0 3.0 0.0
Peter Aluma 1 6 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Japan · #14

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Maikeru Takahashi 5 191 82 16.4 5.4 1.6
Takehiko Orimo 5 103 44 8.8 1.6 0.6
Akifumi Yamasaki 5 154 40 8.0 8.0 0.6
Makoto Minamiyama 5 78 35 7.0 2.2 1.0
Kenichi Sako 5 117 25 5.0 2.2 3.2
Makoto Hasegawa 5 69 24 4.8 1.2 0.2
Satoshi Sakumoto 5 45 12 2.4 0.4 0.4
Satoru Furuta 5 80 10 2.0 2.0 0.6
Takeshi Yuki 5 98 8 1.6 0.6 0.2
Hiroyuki Tominaga 3 46 7 2.3 3.7 0.0
Takahiro Setsumasa 3 19 2 0.7 0.3 0.7

Senegal · #15

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Cheikh Yaha Dia 5 98 45 9.0 5.4 1.0
Assane Ndiaye 5 102 42 8.4 6.4 0.0
Raymond Edouard Carvalho 3 61 32 10.7 1.3 0.0
Omar Ba 5 76 29 5.8 2.4 1.0
Boubacar Aw 5 104 25 5.0 2.4 1.8
Samba Aly Ngoné Niang 5 110 25 5.0 2.2 1.0
Mouhamadou Sow 5 92 24 4.8 2.4 0.4
Kader Malik Fall 5 69 22 4.4 0.4 0.8
Mamadou Diouf 5 92 22 4.4 2.4 1.0
Mamadou Ndiaye 5 66 21 4.2 4.2 0.2
Vincent Da Sylva 5 88 13 2.6 2.2 1.0
Makhtar Ndiaye 4 42 10 2.5 2.5 0.3

South Korea · #16

Player GP MIN PTS PPG RPG APG
Jang Hoon Seo 5 185 76 15.2 6.8 0.6
Sang-Min Lee 5 145 66 13.2 2.0 4.2
Kyung-Eun Moon 5 118 52 10.4 2.0 1.0
Joo-Yup Hyun 4 114 40 10.0 4.0 1.3
Dong-Hee Kang 5 126 33 6.6 0.6 2.4
Byong-Chul Kim 5 86 21 4.2 1.4 1.0
Kyung-Min Yang 5 90 21 4.2 2.8 0.2
Sang-Hyun Cho 3 36 11 3.7 1.3 0.0
Seung-Gyun Choo 5 67 8 1.6 0.8 0.6
Hee-Sun Kim 1 1 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Joo-sung Kim 3 12 0 0.0 0.0 0.3
Sung-Chul Kim 3 20 0 0.0 0.7 0.0