2007 FIBA Oceania Championship for Women
# 2007 FIBA Oceania Championship for Women

FIBA Oceania Championship for Women 2007 is the qualifying tournament of FIBA Oceania for the women's basketball tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing. The tournament was a three-way contest between:

* Australia
* New Zealand
* Fiji (The winner of the Pacific Games held in Apia, Samoa)

It was held in Dunedin, New Zealand from 26 to 29 September.

Australia has already qualified for Beijing as winners of the 2006 World Championship.

The higher ranked team at the championship out of New Zealand and Fiji received direct entry to the Olympic tournament (Subject to approval from the nation's local Olympic committee).

The other took part in the World Olympic Qualifying Tournament in June, 2008.

## Pacific Games

The Pacific Games basketball tournament was held in Apia, Samoa from 29 August to 7 September.

The tournament was played as a single round robin with the top two teams finishing on top of the ladder play-off to determine who advanced to the FIBA Oceania Championship in Dunedin, New Zealand

### Standings

* Qualified for the gold medal game

### Preliminary round

| Team | Pts. | W | L | PCT |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Fiji | 14 | 6 | 0 | 1.000 |
| American Samoa | 13 | 5 | 1 | .833 |
| Tahiti | 12 | 4 | 2 | .667 |
| Papua New Guinea | 11 | 3 | 3 | .500 |
| Samoa | 10 | 2 | 4 | .333 |
| New Caledonia | 9 | 1 | 5 | .167 |
| Solomon Islands | 8 | 0 | 6 | .000 |

### Playoffs

* 6 September
* 5th place

| Samoa | 72–54 | New Caledonia |
| - | - | - |

* Court 1, Apia
* 7 September
* Bronze

| Tahiti | 59–70 | Papua New Guinea |
| - | - | - |

* Court 2, Apia
* 7 September
* Gold

| Fiji | 70–62 | American Samoa |
| - | - | - |

* Court 1, Apia

## Schedule

* Qualified for the finals

### Preliminary round

| Team | Pts. | W | L | PCT |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Australia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1.000 |
| New Zealand | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0.500 |
| Fiji | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.000 |

* 26 September

| New Zealand | 46–78 | Australia |
| - | - | - |

* Edgar Centre, Dunedin
* 27 September

| Australia | 136–32 | Fiji |
| - | - | - |

* Edgar Centre, Dunedin
* 28 September

| New Zealand | 118–31 | Fiji |
| - | - | - |

* Edgar Centre, Dunedin

### Final

* 29 September

| Australia | 87–46 | New Zealand |
| - | - | - |

* Edgar Centre, Dunedin

## Olympic qualification

Since Australia are the defending world champions, they qualified outright to the Olympics. Therefore, the berth reserved for Oceanian champions (Australia) went to New Zealand. The Oceanian runners'-up berth to the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women went to Fiji.

* Australia qualified as world champions.
* New Zealand qualified as Oceanian runners-up.
* Fiji qualified to the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women 2008.
