On March 18, FIBA officially announced the group stage schedule of this Women's Basketball World Cup. What fans are most concerned about is naturally the specific schedule of our Chinese women's basketball team. The official schedule of the Chinese women's basketball team announced by FIBA is as follows:
September 22 15:30 South Korea vs. China
September 23 12:30 China against Bosnia and Herzegovina
September 24 12:30 The United States plays against China
September 26 15:30 China against the pending team
September 27 11:30 China vs. Belgium
As for the "pending teams" in the schedule, they will be born in the Puerto Rico women's basketball team and the Russian women's basketball team. Judging by the strength of the two teams, Russia undoubtedly has a better chance of reaching the Women's Basketball World Cup than Puerto Rico. Judging from the schedule, the Chinese women's basketball team played its first game against its old rival South Korea. In terms of the current strength of the Chinese women's basketball team, there is a high probability that it will make a good start. In the group stage, the most important opponents of the Chinese women's basketball team are undoubtedly the American women's basketball team and the Belgian women's basketball team.
In the current FIBA's latest ranking, the Chinese women's basketball team ranks eighth, while the United States continues to maintain the top position, and the Belgian women's basketball team ranks 5th. At last year's Olympic Games, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the Belgian women's basketball team 74-62 in the group stage. Even so, the strength of the Belgian women's basketball team should not be underestimated, and the Chinese women's basketball team will still have to come up with the best state at that time. As for the American women's basketball team, the strength is still the world's top, and the Chinese women's basketball team only needs to face it with a normal heart and play its own best level.
In addition to the U.S. women's basketball team and the Belgian women's basketball team, the remaining Bosnia and Herzegovina women's basketball team and the South Korean women's basketball team are not as strong as the Chinese women's basketball team. According to the rules of the women's basketball World Cup group stage, the top four in the group can be qualified, so in terms of the strength of the Chinese women's basketball team and the grouping situation, the women's basketball team is basically not too difficult to reach the quarterfinals. In the FIBA official ranking of the women's basketball World Cup last month, the Chinese women's basketball team ranked second only to the American women's basketball team, which means that the FIBA official is optimistic that the Chinese women's basketball team will win a medal in this women's basketball World Cup.
In the last Women's Basketball World Cup, the Chinese team finally ranked 6th, while in last year's Olympic Games, the women's basketball team ranked fifth. It is hoped that in this Women's Basketball World Cup, the Chinese team can reach the final four and strive to reach the podium. Compared with the Chinese men's basketball team, the strength of the Chinese women's basketball team today is undoubtedly worth the expectations of fans. Now there are still half a year before the start of the Women's Basketball World Cup, and the girls of the women's basketball team will enter the tense preparation in the next time, let's cheer for them! I believe that the Chinese women's basketball team will bring us surprises.