2020 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments – Belgrade

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2020 FIBA World Olympic
Qualifying Tournament for Men
Belgrade, Serbia
Tournament details
Host countryFlag of Serbia.svg  Serbia
Dates29 June – 4 July 2021
Teams 5 [1]
Venue(s) 1  (in 1 host city)
Final positions
ChampionsFlag of Italy.svg  Italy
Tournament statistics
MVP Flag of Italy.svg Achille Polonara
Top scorer Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Gian Clavell (20.5)
Top rebounds Flag of Italy.svg Achille Polonara (9.3)
Top assists Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Gary Browne (13.0)
PPG (Team)Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia (93.5)
RPG (Team)Flag of Italy.svg  Italy (38.3)
APG (Team)Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia (25.0)
Official website
WOQT Serbia

The 2020 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Belgrade was one of four 2020 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments. The tournament was held in Belgrade, Serbia. [2] It was originally scheduled to take place from 23 to 28 June 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to 29 June to 4 July 2021. [3]

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Following the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, it was the second consecutive men's Olympic qualifying tournament held in Belgrade, Serbia.

Teams

New Zealand initially qualified for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament by virtue of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. On 26 February 2021, Basketball New Zealand announced that they would pull out of the tournament. On the same day, FIBA announced that they would be replaced by the Philippines as the next-best team from the Asia-Oceania region in FIBA World Rankings. [4] [5]

Senegal had been initially included in the Belgrade Tournament, but it has been forced to withdraw before the start due to several COVID-19 positive cases, and not being replaced by any team, lowering the number of participants to 5. [6]

TeamQualificationDate of qualification FIBA World Ranking
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 5th at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup 15 September 20195th
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9th at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup 15 September 201910th
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 15th at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup 15 September 201918th
Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic 16th at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup 15 September 201919th
Flag of Senegal.svg  Senegal [1] Wild card 19 September 201935th
Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines Wild card26 February 202131st

Venue

Belgrade
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Belgrade
2020 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments – Belgrade (Serbia)
Aleksandar Nikolić Hall
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Capacity: 8,000

Squads

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+2). [7]

Group A

PosTeam
PldWLPFPAPDPtsQualification
1Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia (H)220177152+254 Semi-finals
2Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic 211170161+93
3Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines 202143177−342
Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head points difference; 4) head-to-head number of points scored.
(H) Hosts
29 June 2021
20:15
Dominican Republic  Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg76–94Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia
Scoring by quarter: 23–31, 24–16, 19–20, 10–27
Pts: Liz, Torres 16
Rebs: Liz 9
Asts: Solano, Torres 4		Pts: Marjanović 18
Rebs: Marjanović 10
Asts: Teodosić 6
Aleksandar Nikolić Hall, Belgrade
Attendance: 1,078
Referees: Guilherme Locatelli (BRA), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Georgios Poursanidis (GRE)
30 June 2021
20:15
Serbia  Flag of Serbia.svg83–76Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines
Scoring by quarter:22–16, 23–18, 22–28, 16–14
Pts: Marjanović 25
Rebs: Marjanović 10
Asts: Teodosić 6		Pts: Kouame 17
Rebs: Kouame 7
Asts: Belangel 6
Aleksandar Nikolić Hall, Belgrade
Attendance: 1,256
Referees: Yohan Rosso (FRA), Omar Bermúdez (MEX), James Boyer (AUS)
1 July 2021
20:30
Philippines  Flag of the Philippines.svg67–94Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic
Scoring by quarter: 22–23, 19–16, 10–26, 16–29
Pts: Heading 16
Rebs: Kouame 6
Asts: Belangel 10		Pts: Liz 23
Rebs: Araújo 7
Asts: Torres 6
Aleksandar Nikolić Hall, Belgrade
Attendance: 200
Referees: Guilherme Locatelli (BRA), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Kingsley Ojeaburu (NGA)

Group B

Senegal did not participate in the Qualifying Tournament. On 28 June, they informed FIBA about COVID-19 related disruptions to their preparations in Germany. Afterwards, their scheduled games with Puerto Rico and Italy did not take place. [8]

Therefore, in Group B only one match has been played between Puerto Rico and Italy: the winner of this game finished first of group B and faced the second placed team of Group A, the other team finished second of Group B and faced the first placed team of group A, in the semi-finals. In fact, FIBA did not considered Senegal as a participant and did not applied the Rule 20.2.1, which could have awarded Senegal's opponents the game with score as 20 to 0 (Article 20 discusses the games lost by forfeit). FIBA indeed did not drew up any standings. [9]

1 July 2021
16:30
Italy  Flag of Italy.svg90–83Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico
Scoring by quarter: 18–24, 19–20, 27–14, 26–25
Pts:three players 21
Rebs: Polonara 11
Asts: Mannion 6		Pts: Clavell 24
Rebs: Browne 9
Asts: Browne 16
Aleksandar Nikolić Hall, Belgrade
Attendance: 200
Referees: Yohan Rosso (FRA), Omar Bermúdez (MEX), Yener Yılmaz (TUR)

Final round

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
3 July
 
 
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 102
 
4 July
 
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 84
 
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 95
 
3 July
 
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 102
 
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 79
 
 
Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic 59
 

Semi-finals

3 July 2021
13:00
Italy  Flag of Italy.svg79–59Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic
Scoring by quarter:22–14, 20–16, 24–8, 13–21
Pts: Fontecchio 17
Rebs:three players 5
Asts:four players 3		Pts: Francis 12
Rebs: Santos 7
Asts: Mendoza, Solano 4
Aleksandar Nikolić Hall, Belgrade
Attendance: 502
Referees: Guilherme Locatelli (BRA), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Georgios Poursanidis (GRE)
3 July 2021
16:00
Serbia  Flag of Serbia.svg102–84Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico
Scoring by quarter:28–26, 23–14, 28–28, 23–16
Pts: Micić 21
Rebs: Petrušev 8
Asts: Teodosić 10		Pts: Piñeiro 23
Rebs: Browne 5
Asts: Browne 10
Aleksandar Nikolić Hall, Belgrade
Attendance: 2,388
Referees: Yohan Rosso (FRA), Omar Bermúdez (MEX), Yener Yılmaz (TUR)

Final

4 July 2021
20:30
Serbia  Flag of Serbia.svg95–102Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Scoring by quarter: 22–28, 23–29, 18–23, 32–22
Pts: Anđušić 27
Rebs: Kalinić 6
Asts: Kalinić, Teodosić 5		Pts: Mannion 24
Rebs: Polonara 12
Asts: Pajola 6
Aleksandar Nikolić Hall, Belgrade
Attendance: 3,728
Referees: Guilherme Locatelli (BRA), Yohan Rosso (FRA), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT)

Final ranking

#TeamW–LQualification
1Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 3–0Qualified for the Olympics
2Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 3–1
3Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 0–2
4Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic 1–2
5Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines 0–2

See also

References

  1. 1 2 6 teams were originally planned. Senegal has been forced to withdraw before the start of the Tournament due to numerous COVID-19 positive cases, and not being replaced by any team. See: "FIBA OQT. Ecco i 12 di Meo. Il Senegal non giocherà il Preolimpico e gli Azzurri (già in semifinale) esordiranno il 1º luglio contro il Portorico". fip.it (in Italian). Italian Basketball Federation. 28 June 2021. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments hosts announced for 2020". FIBA. 15 November 2019.
  3. ↑ "FIBA's Executive Committee confirms global calendar update". FIBA. 9 April 2020.
  4. ↑ "BBNZ board prioritises Asia Cup, World Cup and 2024 Olympics, but withdraws from 2021 OQTs". nz.basketball. 26 February 2021.
  5. ↑ "FIBA statement on New Zealand's withdrawal from FIBA competitions". FIBA. 26 February 2021.
  6. ↑ "FIBA OQT. Ecco i 12 di Meo. Il Senegal non giocherà il Preolimpico e gli Azzurri (già in semifinale) esordiranno il 1º luglio contro il Portorico". fip.it (in Italian). Italian Basketball Federation. 28 June 2021. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "Tip-off times confirmed for FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments". FIBA. 19 February 2020.
  8. ↑ "Rosters confirmed ahead of tip-off at FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments". fiba.basketball. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  9. ↑ "FIBA 2020 Olympic Qualifying Tournaments - Serbia: Final standings". fiba.basketball. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
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