On February 5, the 2022 Men's Basketball Asian Cup came new news, FIBA officially announced that the event draw ceremony is scheduled for February 18, and the lottery rules and the list of seeded teams will be announced before the draw.
The draw was supposed to take place on December 8, 2021, but due to the local epidemic and travel restrictions in Indonesia, fibala's Asia office and host Indonesia decided to postpone it on December 3, when it was scheduled to be postponed until early 2022.
This Asian Cup can be said to be very bumpy, originally supposed to be held in August 2021, but due to the local epidemic, it finally became the 2022 Men's Basketball Asian Cup.
This competition, for the first time, set up qualifiers, which were also intermittent. The match of the Chinese men's basketball team was also postponed from February to June. In the end, in the Philippines, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated Japan and the Chinese Taipei men's basketball team in four consecutive games and got the ticket.
At present, many Teams in Asia are preparing for the second window of the 2023 Basketball World Cup, while the Chinese men's basketball team has no games in this window, and the players who have ended the second stage of the CBA have also resumed training with the team in recent days, and the third stage will be carried out at the end of February or early March.
【2022 Men's Basketball Asian Cup Team】
Australia, Bahrain, China, Chinese Taipei, India, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Lebanon, New Zealand, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Indonesia.