New Delhi, 2 May (Hindustan Times). The Indian men’s basketball team has been clubbed with Chinese Taipei, South Korea and Bahrain in Group A for the Asian leg of the FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying tournament to be held from August 12 to 20 this year.The International Basketball Association (FIBA) on Monday Got a draw. The venue of the Asian leg of the tournament will be confirmed later. Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Syria are in Group B of the Asian draw.
The eight teams were divided into four pots of two teams each for the draw, based on the men’s FIBA World Rankings. Syria and India were placed in the third pot. The highest-ranked team in Group A is South Korea, currently ranked 38th in the FIBA basketball rankings, followed by Chinese Taipei (69), India (82) and Bahrain (84).
The Paris 2024 men’s basketball competition will feature a total of 12 teams, including hosts France. The FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, which will be co-hosted by the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia in August and September this year, will decide the fate of seven of these teams. The two-stage FIBA Olympic Qualification Tournament will determine the four final places. Next year, the second qualifying stage will be a global competition while the first pre-qualifying stage will be played at the continental level.
A total of 40 teams that failed to qualify for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 will get a second chance to make it to Paris 2024 through a pre-qualifying tournament. After advancing to the second round of the Asian qualifiers for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, India was added to the list. Five teams, two from Europe and one each from Asia, Africa and the Americas, will advance to the final Olympic qualifying event for 2024 from the 40 teams that participated in the pre-qualifying games.
