Basketball at the 1966 South Pacific Games
# Basketball at the 1966 South Pacific Games

The 1966 South Pacific Games was the second time that basketball was played at the South Pacific Games. Nine teams competed in the men's competition while for the first time a women's competition took place with five teams competing in the women's tournaments.

French Polynesia took out both gold medals with the national team defeating New Caledonia in the men's final while they defeated Papua New Guinea in the women's.

## Medal summary

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Men's | Tahiti | New Caledonia | Guam |
| Women's | Tahiti | Papua New Guinea | Fiji |

## Men's tournament

### Group stage

**Group A**

| Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tahiti | 4 | 4 | 0 | 240 | 113 | +127 | 8 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 3 | 1 | 237 | 181 | +56 | 7 |
| Gilbert and Ellice Islands | 4 | 2 | 2 | 213 | 199 | +14 | 6 |
| Fiji | 4 | 1 | 3 | 222 | 208 | +14 | 5 |
| New Hebrides | 4 | 0 | 4 | 66 | 277 | –211 | 4 |

* December 1966

| Tahiti | 91–51 | Papua New Guinea |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| Tahiti | 72–27 | Gilbert and Ellice Islands |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| Tahiti | 77–35 | Fiji |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| Tahiti | 2–0 | New Hebrides |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| Papua New Guinea | 59–50 | Gilbert and Ellice Islands |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| Papua New Guinea | 60–28 | Fiji |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| Papua New Guinea | 67–12 | New Hebrides |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| Gilbert and Ellice Islands | 44–41 | Fiji |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| Gilbert and Ellice Islands | 92–27 | New Hebrides |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| Fiji | 118–27 | New Hebrides |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia

**Group B**

| Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Caledonia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 180 | 119 | +59 | 6 |
| Guam | 3 | 2 | 1 | 159 | 120 | +39 | 5 |
| American Samoa | 3 | 1 | 2 | 127 | 178 | –51 | 4 |
| Nauru | 3 | 0 | 3 | 139 | 188 | –49 | 3 |

* December 1966

| New Caledonia | 45–33 | Guam |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| New Caledonia | 64–34 | American Samoa |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| New Caledonia | 71–52 | Nauru |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| Guam | 64–38 | American Samoa |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| Guam | 62–37 | Nauru |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia
* December 1966

| American Samoa | 55–50 | Nauru |
| - | - | - |

* Nouméa, New Caledonia

### Knockout stage

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| Tahiti | 58 |
| Guam | 42 | | |
| Guam | 42 | Tahiti | 42 |
| | | New Caledonia | 23 |
| New Caledonia | 47 | New Caledonia | 23 |
| Papua New Guinea | 36 | | |
| Papua New Guinea | 36 | Third place | Third place |
| | | Guam | 63 |
| | | Papua New Guinea | 47 |

## Women's tournament

### Round robin

| Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |

### Knockout stage

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| Tahiti | 53 |
| Fiji | 47 | | |
| Fiji | 47 | Tahiti | 35 |
| | | Papua New Guinea | 31 |
| Papua New Guinea | 40 | Papua New Guinea | 31 |
| New Caledonia | 19 | | |
| New Caledonia | 19 | Third place | Third place |
| | | Fiji | 42 |
| | | New Caledonia | 30 |
