The 2018 FIBA U18 Asian Championship was the 25th edition of the Asian basketball championship for under-18 men. The tournament was held in Nonthaburi, Thailand from 5 to 11 August 2018.
held off , 72−63, to win their first-ever Under-18 Asian title in their debut, while avenged their Preliminary Round loss to the , 76−57, to secure third place in the final day of competition. The top four teams qualified and will represent FIBA Asia in the 2019 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup in Greece.
Qualification Allocation of berths According to FIBA Asia rules, the number of participating teams in the FIBA U18 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 2016 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship.
+Allocation of berthsSubzoneAutomatic qualifiersDefault berthsAdditional berths as 2nd–3rd place teams from last championshipTotalHostsDefending championsCentral Asia 0 0 1 0 1East Asia 0 0 2 2 4Gulf 0 0 2 0 2South Asia 0 0 1 0 1Southeast Asia 1 0 2 0 3West Asia 0 1 2 0 3FIBA Oceania 0 2 2 Total 1 1 12 2 16
Qualified teams
Central Asia (1)
East Asia (4)
Gulf (2)
South Asia (1)
Southeast Asia (3) (hosts)
West Asia (3) (defending champions)
FIBA Oceania (2)
Format This edition of the tournament will be using a different format as compared to what was used since 2010. 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 Prior to the draw, the 16 teams were separated into 4 pots based on the latest FIBA Boys' World Ranking, as shown within the parenthesis.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4 (9) (12) (16) (26) (27) (31) (33) (34) (43) (48) (52) (60) (62) (67) (71) (82)
The Draw ceremony was held on July 6 at Mono 29 Stadium in Nonthaburi, Thailand. Teams in each pot were distributed into four groups, with the host nation picking their group. Thailand eventually decided to be drawn in Group C, along with Bahrain and newcomers Australia & New Zealand.
Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D
Venues Most games were held at Stadium 29, located in the Bangkok suburb of Nonthaburi. A few games were held at the Thai-Japanese Bangkok Youth Center in Bangkok.
Preliminary round All times are local (UTC+7).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Final round
Brackets
5-8th place
Qualification round
Quarterfinals
5th-8th-place semifinals
Semifinals
7th-place game
5th-place game
Bronze-medal match
Final
Statistical leaders
Players
PointsPlayer statistics Pos. Name PPG1 Lee Hyun-jung 26.02 Rajeev Kumar 22.03 Ahmad Rashed 21.54 Wang Quanze 20.05 Keisei Tominaga 19.3
Rebounds Pos. Name RPG1 Wang Quanze 13.02 Ariel John Edu 11.53 Amirhossein Rezaeifar 11.3 Jonah Morrison 11.35 Lee Hyun-jung 10.3
Assists Pos. Name APG1 Lee Hyun-jung 6.02 Flynn Macpherson Cameron 5.63 Guo Haowen 5.44 Xu Jie 4.95 Ehsan Dalirzahan 4.3 Tamuri Wigness 4.3
Steals Pos. Name SPG1 Lee Hyun-jung 3.32 Rajeev Kumar 3.03 Lin Lin 2.5 Lin Yan-ting 2.55 Flynn Macpherson Cameron 2.4
Blocks Pos. Name BPG1 Princepal Singh 3.32 Ariel John Edu 2.83 Amirhossein Rezaeifar 2.34 Samson Froling 2.0 Ameer Kasab 2.0 Jonah Morrison 2.0 Harshwardhan Tomar 2.0
Other statistical leaders Stat Name Avg.Field goal percentage Kyle Bowen 70.4%3-point FG percentage Park Moo-been 53.8%Free throw percentage Keisei Tominaga 85.7%Turnovers Arvind Krishnan 5.5Fouls Lin Cheng 4.3
Final rankings Qualified for the 2019 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup
Position Team Record 6–0 5–2 5–2 4th 4–2 5th 5–2 6th 4–2 7th 3–4 8th 3–3 9th 2–2 10th 1–3 11th 1–3 12th 1–3 13th 0–3 14th 0–3 15th 0–3 16th 0–3
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