The fifth edition of the

Acropolis International Basketball Tournament The Acropolis International Basketball Tournament (also known as the Acropolis of Athens Basketball Tournament and the Acropolis Basketball Cup) (Greek language, Greek: Τουρνουά Ακρόπολις) is an international basketball competiti ...

1990 took place between the 23rd and 25th. July 1990 in

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. The six games were played for the first time in the sports hall of Glyfada in the south of the Greek capital Athens, Greece. The competition is played under

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rules as a

round-robin tournament A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a competition format in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1971, G. & ...

. The participating teams were the hosts,

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, as well as

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

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, and

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. The field of participants completed the Argentina national team who was able to win the tournament and who is still the only non-European team to win the tournament.

Venues

Participating teams

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Standings

Results

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Final standings

References

External links

Acropolis TournamentBasket.gr Acropolis Cup History Search Results
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1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

July 1990 sports events in Europe 1989–90 in European basketball 1990 in Greek sport 1990 in Italian sport 1990 in Chinese sport