Pre Olympic, not 'WC'

FIBA Men Pre Olympic qualifying tournament, TBD - 12-20 Aug 2023

What is this and who is expected to play in it?

Men

1. The first competition providing a direct spot for Paris 2024 will be the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, scheduled from 25 August to 10 September in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia.

In total, seven quota places will be allocated during this World Cup, distributed to the best teams from respective continents based on the final classification and divided as follows:

Two for America

Two for Europe

One for Africa

One for Asia

One for Oceania

2. The four last quota places will be attributed via the Olympic Qualifying Tournaments for Paris 2024. There will be two rounds in each of those tournaments: Pre-Qualifying Tournaments (FOPQTs) and Qualifying Tournaments (FOQTs). The details are below.

FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournaments (FOPQTs)

In total, 40 teams will compete in the FOPQTs, picked from the previous FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualifiers. The 40 teams will be made up of 28 teams that played in the second round of the previous FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualifiers but did not qualify for the FBWC, and the 12 highest-ranked teams from the teams that did not qualify for the second round of the previous FBWC qualifiers.

Five teams from those FOPQTs will qualify for the FOQTSs.

The qualified teams for the FOPQTs will be divided by continents, as follow:

Eight teams from Africa (one will qualify for FOQT)

Eight teams from Americas (one will qualify for FOQT)

Eight teams from Asia (including Oceania) (one will qualify for FOQT)

16 teams from Europe (one will qualify for FOQT)

FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (FOQTs)

In total, 24 teams, representing all continents, are eligible to participate in the FOQTs.

There will be four tournaments of six teams each, and the winner of each tournament will qualify for the Olympic Games.

Participating teams will be divided as follow:

One team from Africa, the best placed team at the FIBA World Cup 2023 that is not directly qualified for the Games

One team from the Americas, the best placed team at the FIBA World Cup 2023 that is not directly qualified for the Games

One team from Asia, the best placed team at the FIBA World Cup 2023 that is not directly qualified for the Games

16 teams, the next best placed teams at the FIBA World Cup 2023 that have not directly qualified for the Games

One team from Africa from the FOPQTs

One team from the Americas from the FOPQTs

One team from Asia from the FOPQTs

Two teams from Europe from the FOPQTs

If nz finish higher than us at the WC, we have to take the long road to get to paris. Very difficult.

I might be simple but I'm confused! So there’s a pre Olympic qualifying tournament that Aus will play in that is before the World Cup and if we finish above NZ at the World Cup then the results will be irrelevant?

What kind of team would you expect to play for Aus? A genuine B team or would it be young kids & fringe NBL players?

Those are the dates currently set but yes it is confusing having the first phase of paris qualification before/during WC time. We may only see those teams who did not qualify to 23 WC playing Olympic qualyfying group games. Another 3 men's international windows between September 2023 and July 2024

Ok thank you.

I suggest you check out past instalments to gauge how tough it could be for us:

2020 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments

I get that if we don't qualify as the highest placed Oceania via the WC then our Olympic pathway will be incredibly tough.

I’m only curious about whether we participate in, and what standard we expect, FIBA Men Pre Olympic qualifying tournament, TBD - 12-20 Aug 2023 to be.

No.

No, as in we won't be participating, so I'm not sure why the OP included it in their list of upcoming tournaments.

Ok thank you for that.