FOUR MALAYALIES IN THE FINAL 16 FOR THE FIBA ASIA CUP WOMEN 2021
27/08/2021
With 30 days to go for the29th edition of the FIBA Women's Asia Cup tournament to be held in Amman, Jordan from 27 September to 3 October 2021. Four malayalis find their place when the camp was shortlisted to 16 Stephy Nixon (KSEB) Sreekala R (Mar Ivanios College,Trivandrum) Anumaria CS (assumption College Changancherry ) and Sruthy Aravind from Railways
The tournament was originally set to be hosted by India, It serves as the Asian and Oceanian qualification for the 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup in Australia, where the top four teams qualify for one of the qualifying tournaments.
The same teams from the FIBA Women's Asia Cup 2019 will participate in this 2021 edition in Amman, Jordan along with India Australia, Japan, China, Chinese Taipei, Korea , New Zealand and Philippines . As Division B was not organized in 2019, the team finishing in the last position in Division A was not relegated to Division B, instead stayed in the top division for the 2021 edition.
The competition system of the FIBA Women's Asia Cup 2021 will be the same as 2019 .
Group Phase
The eight (8) participating teams are divided into two (2) groups (A and B) of four (4) teams each. Each team will play against all other teams in its own group (a total of 3 games for each team)
Final Phase
Teams topping their groups will advance directly the Semi-Finals, while teams finishing second and third will play a Qualification to Semi-Finals Games (A2 v B3 & A3 v B2).