AFRICAN champions, D’Tigers had been on Friday drawn in Group B with Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Lithuania and one of many three groups that may qualify by Olympic Qualifying Tournaments for the basketball occasion on the 2016 Rio Olympic Games billed to carry in August.
The defending champions USA had been drawn in Group A with Australia, China, Venezuela and two groups to be determined on the OQTs which might maintain from July 4 to 10.
The host nation was positioned in Group B after the USA and Venezuela had been drawn in Group A to be able to keep away from having three groups from the Americas in the identical group.
The draw, which was held on the International Basketball Federation’s House of Basketball in Mies, Switzerland, additionally threw up fascinating clashes within the ladies’s match.
The reigning Olympic ladies’s champions, USA had been drawn in Group B with Canada, Senegal, Serbia and two groups to be determined on the Olympic qualifying match holding from June 13 to 19. The ladies’s Group A has London 2012 bronze medallists Australia together with Brazil, Japan, and three groups to be determined on the qualifier.
The Rio 2016 basketball competitors will run for nearly your entire period of the Olympic Games, starting with the primary group part video games on August 6, the day after the opening ceremony on the Maracanã Stadium, and ending with the ladies’s medal video games on August 20 and the lads’s podium deciders on August21, the day of the closing ceremony.
The group phases shall be performed in a round-robin format (every workforce performs the opposite 5 in its group), with the highest 4 groups in every group proceding to the knock-out part, which consists of quarter-finals, semi-finals, bronze medal video games and gold medal video games.
In January, Rio 2016 unveiled Carioca Arena 1, the primary basketball venue that’s located in Barra Olympic Park, and earlier this month opened the Youth Arena, which can stage the ladies’s group video games, in Deodoro Olympic Park.