Nigeria and South Sudan to Know Foes of their 2024 FIBA Men’s and Women’s Paris Olympic Basketball event on Wednesday, March 19.
A total of 12 nations will compete at the Men’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024, which is scheduled to run from July 27 to August 10. There are currently eight national teams from five different Continents that have already qualified as the host nation based on their respective results at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023.
The remaining four tickets on offer will be punched by the winners of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (OQTs) which will be held between July 2 and 7 in Piraeus (Greece), Riga (Latvia), San Juan (Puerto Rico), and Valencia (Spain.
The Men’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024 Draw Principles are based on the FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike, as well as other geographical principles. The distribution of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (OQT’s) winners will be based on the best-ranked team at each event.
The teams will be divided into four pots based on the FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike. In each of the final three groups drawn, there will be a minimum of two and a maximum of three teams from Europe. For Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania, there shall be no more than one team per continent in each group.
Pot 1 – USA, the winner of OQT Spain and Germany
Pot 2 – Serbia, Australia, and the winner of OQT Latvia
Pot 3 – Canada, France, and the winner of OQT Puerto Rico
Pot 4 – The winner of OQT Greece, Japan, and South Sudan.
In the women’s draw, a total of 12 national teams from five Continents will compete at the Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024, which is scheduled to run from July 28 to August 11.
The Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024 Draw Principles are based on the FIBA World Ranking Women, presented by Nike, as well as other geographical principles.
The 12 teams will be divided into four pots based on the FIBA Women’s World Ranking, presented by Nike. In each of the final groups drawn, there will be a minimum of one and a maximum of two teams from Europe. For Africa, Americas, Asia, and Oceania, there shall be no more than one team per Continent in each group.
Pot 1 – USA, China and Australia
Pot 2 – Spain, Canada and Belgium
Pot 3 – France, Japan and Serbia
Pot 4 – Puerto Rico, Nigeria, and Germany”
