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FIBA Women's Asia Cup The FIBA Women's Asia Cup is an international basketball tournament which takes place every two years for women's national teams from FIBA Asia, and since 2017 FIBA Oceania. It was known as the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) Championship u ...
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. Before this edition, the tournament was known as the FIBA Asia Championship for Women, and only involved FIBA Asia members. FIBA Oceania teams Australia and New Zealand, as well as Fiji (at Division B) competed in the tournament for the first time. Japan won their fourth title after defeating Australia 74–73 in the final, while China captured the bronze medal by defeating South Korea 75–51. These four countries qualified for 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.


Venue


Qualifiers

For Division A: *Semifinalists at the 2015 FIBA Asia Women's Championship: ** ** ** ** *Qualifying round winners at the 2015 FIBA Asia Women's Championship: ** ** *Teams from
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: ** ** For Division B: *The host nation, being relegated to Division B at the previous championship: ** *Early registrants for the Division B slots from
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: ** ** ** ** ** *Finalists of the Women's Basketball Final at the 2015 Pacific Games: ** ** (withdrew)


Competition format

The tournament composed of two divisions, Division A and Division B. For each division, during the Group Phase, eight participating teams were divided into two groups (A and B) of four teams each. Each team played all the other teams in its own group (a total of three games for each team), and all four teams in each group advanced to their division's Quarter-finals. A total of twelve games were played in the Group Phase. During the Final Phase, Quarter-finals games were decided on the ranking of the participating teams in the Group Phase: *Game 13: 1st A v 4th B *Game 14: 2nd B v 3rd B *Game 15: 3rd A v 2nd B *Game 16: 4th A v 1st B For Division A, the four winners advanced to the Semi-finals and to the
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. Meanwhile, the four losing quarterfinalists went on to play 5th-8th Classification Games wherein the two winners advanced to play 5-6 Classification Game, while the two losers played 7-8 Classification Game During the Semi-finals, the four teams played as follows: *Game 21: Winner of Game 13 v Winner of Game 14 *Game 22: Winner of Game 15 v Winner of Game 16 In determining the Champions and the Third Place winner, the four teams played as follows: *Game 23: Loser of Game 21 v Loser of Game 22 *Game 24: Winner of Game 21 v Winner of Game 22


Divisions

Division A included teams that won in the 2015 qualifying round and the semifinalists of the previous championship.
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teams and competed in the tournament for the first time and were placed in the same division. Division B included the host team, previous championship Level II participants and . Returning participants that were absent two years ago were , and . Completing the eight-team Division B were
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representatives and , which qualified by playing at the Women's Basketball Final at the 2015 Pacific Games. Included were the FIBA World Rankings prior to the draw. * Withdrew.


Draw

The official draw ceremony was held on 17 May 2017 in Krishna Hall,
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Squads


Division A

''All times are local ( UTC+05:30)''


Preliminary round


Group A

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Group B

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Knockout round


Bracket

;5th place bracket


Quarterfinals

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5–8th place semifinals

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Semifinals

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Seventh place game


Fifth place game


Third place game


Final


Final standing


Statistics and awards


Statistical leaders

;Points ;Rebounds ;Assists ;Blocks ;Steals


Awards

;Most Valuable Player *
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Division B

''All times are local ( UTC+05:30)''


Preliminary round


Group A

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Group B

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Knockout round


Bracket

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Quarterfinals

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5–8th place semifinal


Semifinals

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Fifth place game


Third place game


Final


Final standing


Notes


References


External links


Official website
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