On February 10, Beijing time, the Chinese women's basketball team will play in the group stage of the World Preliminary Round. Just recently, FIBA also officially announced the latest ranking of the world youth team, according to the latest ranking rules, the Chinese women's basketball youth team has reached the fourth place in the world, only behind the United States, Australia and France three teams, ranking fourth in the world and first in Asia.
Compared with the record of the adult team, the chinese youth team has always had a good record, whether it is men or women, in the World Youth Championship, their record is very outstanding, they have reached the quarterfinals of the World Youth Championship. In the past few years, the men's basketball youth team and the women's basketball youth team, in the world rankings, are basically in the top ten.
However, FIBA has recently re-ranked based on the results of the last eight years, taking into account the final results of the World Youth Championship and major continental competitions. The main reference is the results of several major events such as the U17 World Youth Championship, the U19 World Youth Championship, the U16 Asian Youth Championship and the U18 Asian Youth Championship.
According to this ranking basis, in the latest ranking of FIBA, the Chinese women's basketball youth team scored a high score of 641.9 points, ranking fourth in the world and first in Asia. At the top of the list is still the United States team, which scored 817.9 points, followed by Australia in second place and Australia in third place.
As we all know, in recent years, the record of the Chinese women's basketball team is very good. At last year's Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese team defeated strong teams such as Australia and Belgium in the group stage and won the first place in the group. Although in the knockout stage, the Chinese team was reversed by Serbia and missed the final four. However, for this young Chinese team, the outside world still gives great high hopes.