1963 ABC Championship

2nd Asian Men's Basketball Championship Asia 1963 130 Official logo of the FIBA Asia Championship 1963 Taiwan November 20 – December 3 8 all Asian 1 1 Philippines 1936 2 1960 1965 The 1963 ABC Championship was the second edition of the ABC Championship, a tournament which was held by FIBA Asia since 1960. The tournament which was held at thee then-newly constructed Chung-Hua Gymnasium in Taipei, Taiwan saw eight teams compete (an expansion of one team) in a round-robin tournament with the top four teams qualifying through to the championship round where they played each other again one more time. The bottom four teams would compete in a classification round. The tournament saw the first tie-breaker matches to be played with Thailand defeating Malaya to book a spot in the championship round. In the championship round, the Philippines and Taiwan finish level with an 8–2 record. This meant that a play-off to decide the champion was played on December 3. In that final match, the Philippines would claim their second title, defeating Taiwan, 91–77. Third was South Korea, who had defeated the play-off teams at least once during the tournament. Preliminary round TeamPldWLPFPAPDPtsPHI 1936761649406+24313TWN761695535+16013KOR752649496+15312THA743581542+3911Malaya743548568−2011SIN725516662−1469HKG 1959716479610−1318South Vietnam707538836−2987 #eee Taipei November 20 SIN 80 HKG 1959 73 28–35 52–38 Taipei November 21 South Vietnam 89 SIN 98 40–49 49–49 #eee Taipei November 21 Malaya 81 KOR 80 32–38 49–42 Taipei November 21 THA 60 PHI 1936 83 26–36 34–47 #eee Taipei November 22 SIN 65 THA 74 32–43 33–31 Taipei November 22 PHI 1936 124 South Vietnam 61 53–35 71–26 #eee Taipei November 22 KOR 90 HKG 1959 61 38–28 52–33 Taipei November 22 TWN 100 Malaya 76 33–26 67–50 #eee Taipei November 23 HKG 1959 105 South Vietnam 75 49–34 56–41 Taipei November 23 Malaya 42 PHI 1936 103 22–48 20–55 #eee Taipei November 23 KOR 110 SIN 55 49–25 61–30 Taipei November 23 THA 87 TWN 96 42–45 45–51 #eee Taipei November 24 THA 68 Malaya 66 32–27 36–39 Taipei November 24 SIN 64 PHI 1936 114 24–48 40–66 #eee Taipei November 24 KOR 136 South Vietnam 75 64–36 72–39 Taipei November 24 TWN 102 HKG 1959 46 54–21 48–25 #eee Taipei November 25 TWN 145 South Vietnam 91 72–40 73–51 Taipei November 26 SIN 72 Malaya 111 31–54 41–57 #eee Taipei November 26 South Vietnam 75 THA 131 32–65 43–66 Taipei November 26 PHI 1936 96 HKG 1959 52 47–27 49–25 #eee Taipei November 26 KOR 83 TWN 96 39–42 44–54 Taipei November 27 TWN 91 SIN 82 43–32 48–50 #eee Taipei November 27 Malaya 97 South Vietnam 72 45–30 52–42 Taipei November 27 HKG 1959 69 THA 92 36–45 33–47 #eee Taipei November 27 KOR 62 PHI 1936 59 24–25 35–37 Taipei November 28 HKG 1959 73 Malaya 75 27–26 46–49 #eee Taipei November 28 KOR 88 THA 69 32–40 56–29 Taipei November 28 TWN 65 PHI 1936 70 35–31 30–39 Since both Thailand and Malaya were tied on points, a play-off game was required to determine the fourth-placed team.http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19631201.2.130.aspx Malaya out of final round 1 December 1963 The Straits Times 13 July 2011 7 November 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121107060932/http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19631201.2.130.aspx dead #eee Taipei November 29 THA 86 Malaya 81 45–41 41–40 Final round The results and the points of the preliminary round shall be taken into account for the second round. Classification 5th–8th TeamPldWLPFPAPDPtsMalaya1064823842−1916HKG 19591046744820−7614SIN1037769919−15013South Vietnam100107951145−35010 #eee Taipei November 30 South Vietnam 85 Malaya 112 40–51 45–61 Taipei November 30 SIN 65 HKG 1959 67 28–27 37–40 #eee Taipei December 1 SIN 91 South Vietnam 87 53–45 38–42 Taipei December 1 Malaya 60 HKG 1959 92 29–40 31–52 #eee Taipei December 2 HKG 1959 105 South Vietnam 85 46–40 60–45 Taipei December 2 Malaya 103 SIN 97 51–45 52–52 Championship TeamPldWLPFPAPDPtsPHI 19361082906636+27018TWN1082955780+17518KOR1073894726+16817THA1046791809−1814 #eee Taipei November 30 THA 53 PHI 1936 91 25–48 28–43 Taipei November 30 TWN 74 KOR 78 43–48 31–30 #eee Taipei December 1 TWN 90 THA 86 46–49 44–37 Taipei December 1 KOR 81 PHI 1936 85 38–46 43–39 #eee Taipei December 2 KOR 86 THA 71 41–28 45–43 Taipei December 2 PHI 1936 81 TWN 96 44–51 37–45 Since Taiwan and the Philippines were level on points, a play-off game for the championship was required.http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19631204.2.135.2.aspx Formosa and Philippines play off for Asian title 4 December 1963 The Straits Times 13 July 2011 7 November 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121107060944/http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19631204.2.135.2.aspx dead Championship play-off December 3 #eee Taipei TWN 77 PHI 1936 91 33–49 44–42 Final standings RankTeamRecord PHI 1936 9–2 TWN 8–3 KOR 7–34THA 5–65Malaya 6–56HKG 1959 4–67SIN 3–78South Vietnam 0–10 Awards bk 1963 Asian champions PHI 1936 Second See also List of sporting events in Taiwan References Results archive.fiba.com Asia Championship, 1963 1963 B Category:International basketball competitions hosted by Taiwan ABC Championship ABC Championship