Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
The men's basketball tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics will be the 20th edition of the basketball event for men at the Summer Olympic Games. It will be held from 25 July to 7 August 2021. All games will be played at the Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo, Japan.[1]
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Japan |
City | Tokyo |
Dates | 25 July – 7 August 2021 |
Teams | 12 (from 5 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics | ||
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Basketball | ||
Qualification | men | women |
Tournament | men | women |
Rosters | men | women |
3x3 basketball | ||
Qualification | men | women |
Tournament | men | women |
It was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]
Format
The twelve teams will be split in to three groups of four teams. The first two-placed teams advance to the quarterfinals aswell as the two best third-placed teams. After the preliminary round, the teams will be seeded accoring to theire results (four teams seeded and four unseeded), afterwards a draw will determine the pairings. From there on a knockout system is used.[3]
Schedule
G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
Sun 25 | Mon 26 | Tue 27 | Wed 28 | Thu 29 | Fri 30 | Sat 31 | Sun 1 | Mon 2 | Tue 3 | Wed 4 | Thu 5 | Fri 6 | Sat 7 | ||
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G | G | G | G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F |
Qualification
Means of qualification[5] | Date | Venue | Berths | Qualified | |
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Host nation[6] | N/A | N/A | 1 | Japan | |
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup | Africa | 31 August – 15 September 2019 | China | 1 | Nigeria |
Americas | 2 | Argentina | |||
United States | |||||
Asia | 1 | Iran | |||
Europe | 2 | France | |||
Spain | |||||
Oceania | 1 | Australia | |||
2020 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments | 22 June – 4 July 2021 | Victoria | 1 | TBD | |
Split | 1 | TBD | |||
Kaunas | 1 | TBD | |||
Belgrade | 1 | TBD | |||
Total | 12 |
Draw
Preliminary round
All times are local (UTC+9).[9]
Group A
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Iran | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Quarterfinals |
2 | France | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible quarterfinals |
4 | OQT winner Victoria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Eliminated |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head points difference; 4) head-to-head number of points scored.
Group B
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Quarterfinals |
2 | OQT winner Split | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | OQT winner Belgrade | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible quarterfinals |
4 | Nigeria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Eliminated |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head points difference; 4) head-to-head number of points scored.
Group C
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Argentina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Quarterfinals |
2 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | Spain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible quarterfinals |
4 | OQT winner Kaunas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Eliminated |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head points difference; 4) head-to-head number of points scored.
Third-placed teams ranking
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Third place in Group A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Quarterfinals |
2 | Third place in Group B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | Third place in Group C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Eliminated |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head points difference; 4) head-to-head number of points scored.
Knockout stage
A draw after the preliminary round will decide the pairings.
Ranking
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Team 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Seeded |
2 | Team 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | Team 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
4 | Team 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
5 | Team 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Unseeded |
6 | Team 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
7 | Team 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
8 | Team 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) points difference; 3) points scored.
Bracket
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Gold medal | ||||||||
3 August | ||||||||||
5 August | ||||||||||
3 August | ||||||||||
7 August | ||||||||||
3 August | ||||||||||
5 August | ||||||||||
3 August | ||||||||||
Bronze medal | ||||||||||
7 August | ||||||||||
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
References
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- "Competition System". fiba.basketball. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
- "Basketball Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- "Qualification for Olympic Games". FIBA. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- Stein, Mark (2 May 2017). "USA Basketball to use non-NBA players for qualifying after FIBA changes". ESPN. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- "Tokyo 2020 Olympic Basketball Tournaments Draw set for February 2nd". fiba.basketball. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- "Groups confirmed for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Basketball Tournaments". fiba.basketball. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
- "Tokyo 2020 Men's Basketball Tournament Game Schedule" (PDF). fiba.basketball. Retrieved 2 February 2021.