1978 FIBA Oceania Championship

FIBA Oceania Championship 1978

3rd FIBA Oceanian Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host country	New Zealand
Dates	1–8 April
Teams	2
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Australia (3rd title)

The FIBA Oceania Championship for Men 1978 was the qualifying tournament of FIBA Oceania for the 1978 FIBA World Championship. The tournament, a best-of-three series between  Australia and  New Zealand, was held in Auckland, Lower Hutt and Christchurch. Australia won the series 2-1 to win its third consecutive Oceania Championship.

Teams that did not enter

•  American Samoa
•  Cook Islands
•  Micronesia
•  Fiji
•  Guam
•  Kiribati
•  Marshall Islands
•  Nauru
•  New Caledonia
•  Norfolk Island
•  Northern Mariana Islands
•  Palau
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Samoa
•  Solomon Islands
•  Tahiti
•  Tonga
•  Tuvalu
•  Vanuatu

Results

Australia	93–71	New Zealand
Scoring by half: 47-30, 46-41

Australia	65–67	New Zealand
Scoring by half: 28-29, 37-38

Australia	76–69	New Zealand
Scoring by half: 44-36, 32-33

1978 Oceanian champions
Australia Third title

References

• FIBA Archive