The Federation of International
Basketball has put Nigeria in pot 7 alongside Senegal, New Zealand and Angola
ahead of the Men’s World Cup draw coming up on Saturday, March 16, at Shenzhen
Bay Arena.
The 32 teams which qualified for
the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 were shared
among eight (8) pots of four (4) teams each, based on the latest FIBA
World Ranking for Men after the last window of qualifiers played in February.
Host- China are in pot 1
alongside the top 3 teams in the World, USA, Spain and France. Pot 2 has
Serbia, Argentina, Lithuania and Greece while Russia, Australia, Brazil and
Italy complete pot 3.
Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico,
Turkey and Venezuela are in pot 4. Germany, Czech, Poland and Iran are in pot 5
while FIBA grouped Canada, Montenegro, Philippines and Korea in pot 6
Japan, Jordan, Tunisia and the
last African team to qualify, Cote d’Ivoire make up teams in pot 8.
According to the guidelines
released by FIBA 24 hours before the event, Pots 1, 4, 5 and 8 will feed Groups
A, C, E and G while Pots 2, 3, 6 and 7 will feed Groups B, D, F and H.
China will be placed in Group A
with all their group matches to be played in Beijing and reigning world
champions USA will be allocated to Group E in Shanghai.
Group B games will be played in
Wuhan. The city of Guangzhou will host Group C while Foshan will play host to Group D team.
Group F teams will play in
Nanjing, Group G in Shenzhen while Dongguan is the preferred city for Group H
teams.
The World Cup holds between the
31st of August and 15th of September.
The Nigeria Basketball Federation
will be represented at the draws by Lawal Razaq Dayo (Nigerian high ranking
embassy staff in China) and D’Tigers Team Manager Musa Adamu.
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