At 16:00 on the afternoon of February 18, the 2022 Men's Basketball Asian Cup drawing ceremony will be held. On the 17th, FIBA officially announced the classification situation, and the Chinese men's basketball team was in the first gear with Australia, Iran and New Zealand.
In this men's basketball Asian Cup, 16 teams advanced to the main tournament, and it was also the first time in history that the final participating teams were determined through the Asian preliminaries. According to the world ranking updated on December 7, 2021, the classification of the drawn seeded teams was determined.
According to the ranking, the 16 teams were divided into four groups of 4 teams each.
The binning is as follows:
First gear: Australia, Iran, New Zealand, China
Second gear: South Korea, Philippines, Japan, Jordan
Third gear: Lebanon, Chinese Taipei, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia
Fourth gear: Indonesia, Syria, India, Bahrain
Indonesia, as the host, will have the opportunity to select groups.
The rules of the draw will be drawn in each stall, by numerical 1-4 position markers, to determine the team's position in that group and the order of subsequent matches, and each group will draw one team from each stall until the group is fully occupied.
The asian cup was also a thorn in the road, and the event, which was supposed to be held in August 2021, was postponed from the beginning of the qualifiers, and finally completed in the summer of 2021, but had to be postponed for a year due to the local epidemic. The lottery ceremony was supposed to take place last December, but was also postponed to February 18, 2022 due to the pandemic.
The 2022 Men's Basketball Asian Cup, the final tournament will be played on July 12-24 in Jakarta, Indonesia.