The 2017 FIBA U16 Asian Championship (also known as the 2018 FIBA U16 Asian Championship) was the qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the 2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup. The tournament was held in Foshan, China from 2 to 8 April 2018. The competition was scheduled to be played in Dalang, China from 26 March to 1 April 2018. The top four teams would represent FIBA Asia to the 2018 FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup.

Qualification Allocation of berths According to FIBA Asia rules, the number of participating teams in the FIBA U16 Asian Championship was set at 16. The hosts and the defending champions qualified automatically. All FIBA Asia subzones got two berths each, except for the Central and South Asian subzones, which got one berth each. FIBA Oceania got two berths. The last two berths were allocated to subzones based on their teams' results in the 2015 FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship.

+Allocation of berthsSubzoneAutomatic qualifiersDefault berthsAdditional berths as best Asian teams from last championshipTotalHostsDefending championsCentral Asia 0 0 1 0 1East Asia 1 1 2 2 6Gulf 0 0 2 0 2South Asia 0 0 1 0 1Southeast Asia 0 0 2 0 2West Asia 0 0 2 0 2FIBA Oceania 0 2 2 Total 1 1 12 2 16

Qualified teams Initially, 16 teams were named as qualified to compete, but according to the tournament's official website, there were only 13 teams left to participate.

Central Asia (1) (withdrew) East Asia (6) (hosts) (defending champions)

Gulf (2) (withdrew) (withdrew)

South Asia (1)

Southeast Asia (2)

West Asia (2)

FIBA Oceania (2)

Format This edition of the tournament will be having a different format as compared to what was used since 2009. While there would still be a preliminary round robin of four groups of four teams, the single-elimination final round immediately follows the preliminary round. In the final round, the teams that finished second and third in their respective groups would play in the qualifications to quarterfinals of the final round, while the group winners automatically qualify to the quarterfinals proper.

Draw The official draw was held on 6 March 2017 in Beijing.

Preliminary round All times are local (UTC+8).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Final round Bracket

Classification 5th–8th

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

5–8th place semifinals

Semifinals

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Third place game

Final

Final standing Qualified for 2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup RankTeamRecord 5–0 4–1 4–24 3–35 5–26 4–27 3–28 2–59 1–210 0–311 0–312 0–313 0–3

Statistics

Player tournament averages

+ Points# Player Pld Pts PPG1 Matin Aghajanpour 5 116 23.22 Haoqin Sun 5 103 20.63 Rayan Zaine Zanbaka 7 141 20.14 Keisei Tominaga 6 105 17.55 Kai Zachary Sotto 6 101 16.8

+ Rebounds# Player Pld Rebs RPG1 Kai Zachary Sotto 6 81 13.52 Luke Jackson 5 54 10.83 Jeonghyeon Moon 7 62 8.94 Matin Aghajanpour 5 42 8.45 Minseok Cha 7 56 8.0

+ Assists# Player Pld Asts APG1 Yang Jun-seok 7 38 5.42 Sina Vahedi 5 26 5.23 Yuki Kawamura 6 26 4.34 Rence Keith Sean Padrigao 6 25 4.25 Tamuri Wigness 5 19 3.8

+ Blocks# Player Pld Blocks BPG1 Kai Zachary Sotto 6 15 2.52 Luke Travers 5 8 1.63 Kobe Williamson 5 6 1.2 Seishin Yokochi 6 7 1.25 Joshua Rafael Lazaro 6 6 1.0

+ Steals# Player Pld Stls SPG1 Mohammadreza Derakhshi 4 13 3.32 Tamuri Wigness 5 15 3.03 Sina Vahedi 5 14 2.84 Hamidreza Bahram Zad 5 13 2.6 Haoqin Sun 5 13 2.6

+ Minutes# Player Pld Mins MPG1 Pengyu Lu 5 162 32.5 Haoqin Sun 5 162 32.53 Rayan Zaine Zanbaka 7 221 31.74 Sina Vahedi 6 156 31.55 Matin Aghajanpour 6 154 31.4

+ Top Performers# Player Pld MPG PPG RPG APG SPG BPG FT FT% FG FG% DblDbl DD% Efficiency EffPG1 Kai Zachary Sotto 6 25.4 16.8 13.5 1.2 0.2 2.5 37/58 63.8 32/78 41.0 4 66.7 129 21.52 Matin Aghajanpour 5 31.3 23.2 8.4 1.4 1.0 0.6 18/24 75.0 43/98 43.9 2 40.0 102 20.43 Luke Jackson 5 28.1 8.8 10.8 1.6 2.0 0.4 0/3 0.0 22/44 50.0 1 20.0 97 19.4 Luke Travers 5 25.1 11.2 7.4 3.6 2.0 1.6 5/6 83.3 23/41 56.1 0 0.0 97 19.45 Jeonghyeon Moon 7 27.3 15.9 8.9 1.3 0.6 0.3 20/34 58.8 44/76 57.9 3 42.9 124 17.7

Team tournament averages

+ Points# Team Pld Pts PPG1 5 489 97.82 7 630 90.03 5 438 87.6

+ Field Goal Shooting# Team Pld FG FG%1 5 169/363 46.62 5 184/409 45.03 6 166/371 44.7

+ Rebounds# Team Pld Rebs RPG1 6 326 54.32 5 262 52.43 5 248 49.6

+ Assists# Team Pld Asts APG1 7 127 18.12 5 90 18.03 5 88 17.6

+ Blocks# Team Pld Blocks BPG1 6 34 5.72 5 25 5.03 5 18 3.6

+ Steals# Team Pld Stls SPG1 5 83 16.62 5 64 12.83 7 88 12.6

Tournament game highs Statistic Player Total Opponent (Date) Team Statistic Team Total Opponent (Date)Points Matin Aghajanpour 39 (4 Apr) TeamPoints 129 (3 Apr)OffensiveRebounds Luke Jackson 11 (6 Apr) OffensiveRebounds 3131 (3 Apr) (2 Apr)DefensiveRebounds Kai Zachary Sotto Kai Zachary Sotto 1313 (2 Apr) (6 Apr) DefensiveRebounds 55 (2 Apr)Rebounds Kai Zachary Sotto Kai Zachary Sotto 2121 (6 Apr) (7 Apr) TeamRebounds 79 (2 Apr)Assists Sina Vahedi Yang Jun-seok 1010 (8 Apr) (2 Apr) TeamAssists 35 (5 Apr)Steals Rayan Zaine Zanbaka 7 (4 Apr) TeamSteals 35 (3 Apr)Blocks Kai Zachary Sotto 6 (7 Apr) TeamBlocks 11 (7 Apr)

Awards

All-Tournament Team C Kai Zachary Sotto F Luke Jackson F Wani Swaka Lo Buluk G Sun Haoqin G Tamuri Wigness

Referees The following referees were selected for the tournament.Referees

Gao Xin He Luwei Yuan Ningpeng Chan Ho Ming Cheung Kwok Shun Andy Biswajit Ojha Mohammad Doost Mohsen Roshan Zamir Kihamu Matsumoto Ryoko Odanaka Kim Cheong-soo Lee Kyoung-hwan Chu Wei Chuen Martin Davison Dallas Christian Pickering Ricor Buaron Ferdinand Pascual Huang Chen-yu

References