Women's Basketball FIBA Olympic Qualification Tournaments 2024 Road to Paris 2024

[JoshMartini007 2,241]

22 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Jesus, never heard anything more absurd than this one I read this morning. Who came and why with this idea, it is just beyond me

FIBA wanted to give women's basketball more opportunities to play or they wanted to charge more hosting fees. It's still a bad system, especially since they were so restricted with how the groups were formed. For example, the United States and Belgium were forced to be in the same group due to a combination of rules.

 

The old system of host + world champ + continental qualifiers + final qualifier is a much better system. The men  are also pretty terrible where nations relied on results from nations from other continents to determine who qualified.

[NearPup 2,224]

1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

FIBA wanted to give women's basketball more opportunities to play or they wanted to charge more hosting fees. It's still a bad system, especially since they were so restricted with how the groups were formed. For example, the United States and Belgium were forced to be in the same group due to a combination of rules.

From what I read before 2020 the women's qualification system was driven by a desire from national teams to have more meaningful games in the run-up to the Olympics.

 

The old qualification system was much better and fairer on both the men's and women's side IMO.

[Josh 5,980]

Day 1 Results

 

Xian, China

 40-88

 94-47

 

Soprom, Hungary

 75-86

 67-55

 

Belem, Brazil

 73-66

 55-60

 

Antwerp, Belgium

 65-72

 81-79  

 

Belem has such a stacked group, shame that one of those teams will miss out on Paris. Other than Japan’s win over Spain, no real upsets today. Didn’t come out on the winning end, but surprised that Brazil kept it close against the Opals, and the same for Belgium against the United States.

Edited February 9 by Josh

[Josh 5,980]

While Nigeria hasn’t mathematically secured a quota yet, with that win  have essentially qualified for Paris. A Senegal loss tomorrow, which seems highly likely, would clinch it for them.

[Roamingrover86 478]

14 minutes ago, Josh said:

Day 1 Results

 

Xian, China

 40-88

 94-47

 

Soprom, Hungary

 75-86

 67-55

 

Belem, Germany

 73-66

 55-60

 

Antwerp, Belgium

 65-72

 81-79  

 

Belem has such a stacked group, shame that one of those teams will miss out on Paris. Other than Japan’s win over Spain, no real upsets today. Didn’t come out on the winning end, but surprised that Brazil kept it close against the Opals, and the same for Belgium against the United States.

Small correction, Belem ( not Berlin) is in  & not  😉

[Josh 5,980]

5 minutes ago, Roamingrover86 said:

Small correction, Belem ( not Berlin) is in  & not  😉

Not my best day today… 

[EselTheDonkey 719]

If  beats , Germany will qualify for the Olympics, no matter what else happens? Is this true or do I miss something?

[Josh 5,980]

1 minute ago, EselTheDonkey said:

If  beats , Germany will qualify for the Olympics, no matter what else happens? Is this true or do I miss something?

That is correct, because if Germany loses to Australia and Brazil, they’d at worst finish at 1-2 but with the head-to-head win over Serbia.

[Vektor 3,195]

 didn't seem unbeatable against us at all, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if  beats them today, which would be the end of our chances. Never had much faith in us anyway and based on the match against Canada this Hungarian team isn't on an Olympic level. 

 

The Olympic lineup will likely be...

 

                       

Edited February 9 by Vektor

[Benolympique 1,755]

14 minutes ago, Vektor said:

 didn't seem unbeatable against us at all, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if  beats them today, which would be the end of our chances. Never had much faith in us anyway and based on the match against Canada this Hungarian team isn't on an Olympic level. 

 

The Olympic lineup will likely be...

 

                       

I would see Serbia and New Zealand instead of Germany and Puerto Rico