What is the FIBA World Cup?
The FIBA Basketball World Cup, also known as the FIBA World Cup of Basketball or simply the FIBA World Cup, between 1950 and 2010 known as the FIBA World Championship,[1] is an international basketball competition contested by the senior men’s national teams of the members of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the sport’s global governing body. It is considered the flagship event of FIBA
What is the format of the FIBA World Cup?
In 2019, the final tournament expanded to 32 teams.[14]
If the teams should be tied at the end of the preliminary round, the ties are broken by the following criteria in order:
- Game results between tied teams
- Goal average between games of the tied teams
- Goal average for all games of the tied teams
- Drawing of lots
The top two teams in each group then advance to a sixteen-team single-elimination knockout round. It begins with the eighth finals, where the top teams in each group play the fourth-placed teams in another group and the second and third-placed teams in each group face off. This is followed by the quarterfinals, semi-finals, and final. The semi-final losers play in the bronze medal game, while the quarterfinal losers play in a consolation bracket to determine fifth through eighth places.
What team won the last FIBA World Cup?
Spain won their second World Cup title after a 95–75 win. Marc Gasol became the first player since Lamar Odom in 2010 to win an NBA championship and a World Cup in the same year, and the first non-American to win an NBA or WNBA title and either a World Cup or Olympic gold medal in the same year.
Where I can Watch the FIBA World Cup?
All games in the World Cup tournament will be shown on NBA App with World Cup Pass (available in the XXXXG,xXFDFHG, ASLEPOT,)