Nigeria’s National Women’s Basketball Team, D’Tigress, will know their opponents on March 19, as the draws for the Men’s and Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournaments takes place in Mies, Switzerland.
The draws will be conducted by basketball legends Penny Taylor and Carmelo Anthony at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball.
For the Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024 Draw Principles, a total of 12 national teams from five Continents will compete at the Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024, which is scheduled to run from July 28 to August 11.
According to the world basketball ruling body FIBA, the Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024 Draw Principles are based on the FIBA World Ranking Women, presented by Nike, as well as other geographical principles.
The 12 teams will be divided into four pots based on the FIBA Women’s World Ranking, presented by Nike. In each of the final group drawn, there will be a minimum of one and a maximum of two teams from Europe. For Africa, Americas, Asia and Oceania, there shall be no more than one team per Continent in each group.
Pot 1 have USA, China and Australia, Pot 2 have Spain, Canada and Belgium, while Pot 3 have France, Japan and Serbia and Pot 4 have Puerto Rico, Nigeria and Germany
For the Men’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024 Draw Principles, a total of 12 nations will compete at the Men’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024, which is scheduled to run from July 27 to August 10. There are currently eight national teams from five different Continents that have already qualified as the host nation or based on their respective results at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023.
The remaining four tickets on offer will be punched by the winners of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (OQT’s) which will be held between July 2 and 7 in Piraeus (Greece), Riga (Latvia), San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Valencia (Spain).
The Men’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024 Draw Principles are based on the FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike, as well as other geographical principles. The distribution of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (OQT’s) winners will be based on the best-ranked team at each event.
The teams will be divided into four pots based on the FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike. In each of the final three group drawn, there will be a minimum of two and a maximum of three teams from Europe. For Africa, Americas, Asia and Oceania, there shall be no more than one team per continent in each group.
