South Pacific Games: tip-off tomorrow

- August 28, 2007
Eurobasket News
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The 2007 South Pacific Games will start tomorrow in Samoa with ten teams. The Samoa Basketball Federation had to field an invitational team to replace the Papua New Guinea squad.
The competition format will be:
First section: 2 pools of 5 teams playing a round robin competition.
Second section: Top 3 teams from each of pool in the first section combine to form the "Medal" pool. The bottom 2 teams from each pool in the first secion combine to form the "Classification" pool. A round robin competition in the classification pool. In the medal pool teams will only play those teams they have not played in the first section.
The Samoa Invitational team will not receive points for games played, and will not be eligible for promotion into the medal round of games. However, their entry will provide games for the other teams in the men's pool 2 competition.

Pool 1:
Guam
Cook Islands
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tahiti

Pool 2:
American Samoa
Palau
Fiji
New Caledonia
Samoa Invitational

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