Patty"TheGOAT"Mills
Earlier this year

FIBA World Men’s Rankings Update

https://www.fiba.basketball/news/serbia-latvia-make-strides-in-top-10-in-latest-fiba-world-ranking-presented-by-nike

1. USA
2. Spain
3. Germany
4. Serbia +1
5. Australia -1
6. Latvia +2
7. Canada -1
8. Argentina -1
9. France
10. Lithuania

The rankings were updated after the first window of the 2025 Continental Cup Qualifiers for Asia Cup, Afrobasket, AmeriCup and EuroBasket.

Serbia improved to 757.9 points to move up one spot to fourth place. The Balkan side swapped spaces with Australia for beating higher-ranked opponents in their Qualifiers. Serbia beat 20th-ranked Finland and 23rd-ranked Georgia while Australia defeated 75th-ranked Indonesia and 50th-ranked Korea in the FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Qualifiers.

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Hooping
Earlier this year

ouch - Boomers will get a harder Olympics seeding now.

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Hooping
Earlier this year

The draw is on March 19th.

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Hooping
Earlier this year

Actually Fiba probably seeds the Olympics Qualifying tournaments into the Draw.

So Australia's Olympics draw is probably.

Pot 2 with Serbia and Latvia OQT (so wouldn't play them in rounds or quarters)

Pot 1 - USA/Germany / OQT Spain.
Pot 3 - Canada/France/ Lithuania OQT.
Pot 4 - Japan / South Sudan / Slovenia (or greece) OQt.

Likely 7 Euro teams.

Just getting to the quarter finals could be tough going.
USA and Canada would be in separate pools.

USA/France/Slovenia would be a tough draw.

Teams will be hoping to draw Japan or South Sudan out of Pot 4.
Probably higher odds of the USA pool drawing Greece/Slovenia out of Pot 4.

If Australia draws in the USA Pool, then can probably expect France/Lithuania and Slovenia/Greece. Ouch!

The draw gets interesting if there are any upsets at the Olympic qualifying tournaments.

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Hooping
Earlier this year

Boomers dropped to 7th in the lastest Fiba World Rankings.

USA
SERBIA
GREECE
FRANCE
CANADA
SPAIN
AUSTRALIA - 732.5pts
ARGENTINA - 731.1pts
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
11th Slovenia
12th Brazil
13th Greece

Rather impressive effort from Argentina, might say a little about the whole ranking process.

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Weedy Slug
Earlier this year

Youth men also about to take a massive dive.

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hoopie
Earlier this year

Germany in 3rd?

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JCK98
Earlier this year

Re: Argentina

Funny what happens when you beat the "USA" and "Canada" in Americas competition.

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Hooping
Earlier this year

Argentina -
2024 Olympics - didnt qualify (boomers 6th)
2023 World Cup - didnt qualify (boomers 10th)
2020 Olympics - 7th (boomers 3rd)
2019 World Cup - 2nd (boomers 4th)
2016 Olympics - 8th (boomers 4th)

Somehow Boomers end up 7th and Argentina 8th.

Fiba world cup weighting is supposed to be 2.5
Olympics weighting is 2
American qualifiers 0.8
Oceania qualifiers 0.7

Argentina should not even be top 10. Boomers ranked 1.4 pts above Argentina.

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Dunkman
Earlier this year

World champions not in top 10 and 4th at Olympics, table got to be wrong.

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Hooping
Earlier this year

Sorry Germany are 3rd.

USA
SERBIA
Germany
FRANCE
CANADA
SPAIN
AUSTRALIA - 732.5pts
ARGENTINA - 731.1pts
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
11th Slovenia
12th Brazil
13th Greece

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Hooping
Earlier this year

Canada -
2024 Olympics - 5th (boomers 6th)
2023 World Cup - 3rd (boomers 10th)
2020 Olympics - didnt qualify (boomers 3rd)
2019 World Cup - 21st (boomers 4th)
2016 Olympics - didnt qualify (boomers 4th)

Lucky to be above Australia as well.

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