Friday, January 28, 2011

2011 FIBA-Africa Championship -Abidjan

The Central Board of FIBA Africa and the Ivorian Basketball Federation (FIBB) are currently evaluating the feasability of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire for hosting the upcoming Afrobasket. Abidjan, which won the bid, has said that construction of its' arena has stalled and will not be completed until November 2011, months after the championship is supposed to be held. On February 15, FIBA Africa will anounce its' decision on whether Abidjan will host or whether another nation will step in to take its' place. Interested parties to replace Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire are said to be Angola, Madagascar, Morocco, and Tunisia.

FIBA Africa Press Release
Interbasket forums

2011 FIBA-Asia Championship

The 2011 FIBA-Asia Championship has been officially moved from Lebanon to Wuhan, China....apparently, the infrastructure and organization of the 2010 FIBA Stankovic Cup did not please FIBA-Asia....
Here's a quick rundown of the qualifiers as there is plenty of confusion.
Those finishers earned an extra spot for their zone in the upcomong FIBA-Asia Championship.
Lebanon, by winning, has qualified for China.
Japan = + 1 spot for East Asia
Qatar = +  1 for Gulf
Philippines = + 1 for SEABA
Jordan = + 1 for WABA
So with that,
East Asia = host (China) + 2 qualifiers + 1 extra for Japan's finish in Asia Stankovic
Gulf = 2 qualifiers + 1 extra for Qatar's finish....Qatar, UAE, Bahrain all qualified to FIBA-Asia by virtue of finishing top 3 in the 12th Gulf Basketball Championship
SEABA = 2 qualifiers + 1 extra for Philippines finish
WABA = Stankovic champion (Lebanon), + 2 qualifiers, + 1 extra for Jordan's finish
Middle Asia = 2 qualifiers