2012 FIBA Asia Cup was the 4th FIBA Asia Cup, the basketball tournament of FIBA Asia was held at the Ota City General Gymnasium, in Ota, Tokyo, Japan from September 14–22, 2012. The winner of this year's FIBA Asia Cup automatically qualifies for the FIBA Asia Championship in 2013.
Qualification According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had one place, and the hosts (Japan) and Asian champion (China) were automatically qualified. The other two places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship.
Central Asia (1) East Asia (2+1+1) Gulf (1) South Asia (1) Southeast Asia (1) West Asia (1+1)
Draw The draw was held on July 1 at Tokyo.
Group AGroup B*
The draw was conducted before the qualifiers from Southeast Asia, Central Asia and South Asia were known.
Preliminary round Group A TeamPldWLPFPAPDPtsTiebreaker431361247+1147 1–1 / 1.068431329235+947 1–1 / 1.050431353250+1037 1–1 / 0.892413227337−1105404204405−2014
Group B TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts440310274+368431318290+287422329322+76413301296+55404294370−764
Final round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals 5th–8th
Semifinals
7th place
5th place
3rd place
Final
Final standing Qualified for the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship RankTeamRecord 7–0 5–2 3–44 4–35 5–26 3–47 4–38 1–69 0–4 0–4
Awards
Most Valuable Player: Samad Nikkhah Bahrami
All-Star Team:
PG – Ryota Sakurai SG – Hamed Afagh SF – Samad Nikkhah Bahrami PF – Kosuke Takeuchi C – Asghar Kardoust
References
External links Tournament official website