At 16:00 on the afternoon of February 18, the 2022 Men's Basketball Asian Cup drawing ceremony was held, and finally the Chinese men's basketball team was divided into a group with South Korea, Chinese Taipei and Bahrain, and the first match of the group stage was the old rival South Korea. The competition will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia, from July 12 to 24.
The 2022 Men's Basketball Asian Cup was supposed to take place in August 2021, but due to the epidemic, it had to be postponed for 1 year. This Asian Cup, a total of 16 teams participated, and it was also the first time in history that it was selected through the qualifiers.
According to the latest edition of the world rankings, the 16 teams are divided into 4 gears, and the Chinese men's basketball team ranks fourth in Asia, and is in the first gear with Australia, Iran and New Zealand.
The rules of this draw are also not complicated, and the four teams in each stall are marked by the numbers 1-4, which determine the order of the subsequent matches. Each team will draw one team from each stall until the group is full of four teams. And the host Indonesia has a right, they as the third gear, can choose to go to a group, they chose to go to group A.
Finally, after a lottery, the grouping is as follows:
Group A: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Australia, Indonesia
Group B: Chinese Taipei, China, Republic of Korea, Bahrain
Group C: Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Syria
Group D: India, Lebanon, Philippines, New Zealand
According to the schedule, the Chinese men's basketball team landed in B2, and the first opponent will be B3 South Korea. This was followed by bahrain and Chinese Taipei.
In the 2017 Asian Cup, Australia defeated Iran for the first time to win the championship, they will also be the defending champions of this tournament, and the Chinese men's basketball team won the fifth place, which was also the men's team led by Du Feng. The Chinese men's basketball team has won the Asian Cup 16 times, the most historical.