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FIBA Oceania Championship 1979

4th FIBA Oceanian Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Australia
Dates	August 5 – August 8
Teams	2
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Australia (4th title)
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The FIBA Oceania Championship for Men 1979 was the qualifying tournament of FIBA Oceania for the 1980 Summer Olympics. The tournament, a best-of-three series between  Australia and  New Zealand, was held in Sydney and Melbourne. Australia won the series 3–0 to win its fourth 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	65–41	New Zealand
Scoring by half: 32-16, 33-25

Australia	62–53	New Zealand
Scoring by half: 25-21, 37-32

Australia	115–73	New Zealand
Scoring by half: 47-40, 68-33

1979 Oceanian champions
Australia Fourth title

References

• FIBA Archive

• FIBA Oceania Championship
• 1979 in Oceanian basketball
• 1979 in New Zealand basketball
• 1979 in Australian basketball
• International basketball competitions hosted by Australia
• Australia men's national basketball team games
• New Zealand men's national basketball team games
• Basketball in New South Wales