FIBA Oceania Championship 1985

FIBA Oceania Championship 1985
7th FIBA Oceanian Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host nation	Australia
Dates	24 – 27 October
Teams	2 (from 21 federations)
Venues	2 (in 2 host cities)
Champions	Australia (7th title)
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The FIBA Oceania Championship for Men 1985 was the qualifying tournament of FIBA Oceania for the 1986 FIBA World Championship. The tournament, a best-of-three series between Australia and New Zealand, was held in Sydney and Newcastle. Australia won the series 3-0 to win its seventh consecutive Oceania Championship.

Teams that did not enter

• American Samoa
• Cook Islands
• F.S. 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

24 October

Australia	92–66	New Zealand
Scoring by half: 49-29, 43-37

26 October

Australia	96–75	New Zealand
Scoring by half: 44-35, 52-40

27 October

Australia	98–62	New Zealand
Scoring by half: 45-19, 53-43

1985 Oceanian Champions
Australia Seventh title

References

• FIBA Archive