I mean, I still find it odd that two teams have to fly around the world and play in a completely different time zone while their competition is sitting there waiting and resting.
Also the state of women's basketball in our continent outside of the United States is horrible.
Puerto Rico may be the only other nation qualifying and that's because they are in a very easy group
I read somewhere that it's because women's teams hardly ever play, so it's an opportunity for the already qualified teams to play friendlies against teams from outside the continent. It was probably just a theory. How much sense does that make? I don't know...
I really dont understand why the FIBA did that.. just dont count the champions for the QT. No reason to have the already qualified teams hog up the space