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| 44th South American Basketball Championship | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Colombia |
| Dates | July 26–31 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Brazil (18th title) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| MVP | Murilo Becker[1] |
| Official website | |
| South American Basketball Championship 2010 | |
The 2010 South American Basketball Championship was the 44th edition of the South American Basketball Championship. Eight teams featured the competition, held in Neiva, Colombia from 26 to July 31 in the Coliseo Álvaro Sánchez Silva. Argentina was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Brazil. The first three places qualified for the basketball tournament at the 2011 Pan American Games and to the 2011 FIBA Americas Championship, the latter of which doubled as the FIBA Americas qualifier for the 2012 Olympics. Because Argentina, which automatically qualified for the FIBA Americas Championship as host, finished in an automatic qualifying spot, the fourth-place team was also invited to that competition. The fifth-place team did not initially qualify for that competition, but was later invited once the United States withdrew from that event because it had qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2010 FIBA World Championship.
- ^ Brazil dominates Argentina to win Gold in the South American Championship Archived 2010-08-04 at the Wayback Machine, FIBA Americas, August 1, 2010