On August 28, Beijing time, FIBA officially announced the ranking of the top 32 in the third world cup today. Serbia continued to take the lead over the United States, and China rose another place to No.13.
Let's first look at group A where the Chinese team is located. On August 31, China will welcome its first opponent in the group stage, Ivory Coast, and 'African elephant' will rank bottom for the third consecutive period. Venezuela ranked second from the bottom in the first two periods, rising five places to 26th, that is, seventh from the bottom. Poland is regarded as China's biggest competitor in the group stage, and they are ranked 16th.
China's ranking rose for the third consecutive period. Li Nan's team ranked 15th in phase 1, rose to 14th in phase 2, and ranked 13th in this phase.
Because many famous stars have withdrawn one after another, the prospect of defending the title of the United States is less and less optimistic. Greg Popovich's team ranked second for the second consecutive period. Serbia has won 10 consecutive warm-up matches and is the only team of 32 teams in this world cup that has not lost in the warm-up match! As the favorite to win the championship, Serbia ranked first for the second consecutive period.
The Australian team increased significantly, from No.9 in phase 2 to No.3 in this phase; Spain and France ranked 4th and 5th respectively.
FIBA explained that the ranking principle of this list is to consider the final qualifying results. Taking group H as an example, two of the four teams of Australia, Lithuania, Canada and Senegal will be eliminated in the group stage, and the teams expected to be eliminated by FIBA (Canada and Senegal) will be excluded from the top 16 of this list. Therefore, this list will be slightly inconsistent with the ranking.
The following is the ranking of the top 32 in the Third World Cup:
1. Serbia; 2. American team; 3. Australian team; 4. Spain; 5. France; 6. Greece; 7. Nigeria team; 8. Argentina; 9. Lithuanian team; 10. Brazil
11. Turkish team; 12. Germany; 13. Chinese team; 14. Tunisia team; 15. Italy; 16. Poland; 17. Team Canada; 18. Philippine team; 19. Japan team; 20. Russian team
21. Czech team; 22. New Zealand team; 23. Montenegro team; 24. Senegal team; 25. Iranian team; 26. Venezuela team; 27. Korean team; 28. Jordan team; 29. Dominica team; 30. Puerto Rico team; 31. Angola team; 32. Ivorian team