2012 FIBA Asia Cup was the 4th FIBA Asia Cup, the basketball tournament of FIBA Asia was held at the Ota City General Gymnasium, in Ota, Tokyo, Japan from September 14–22, 2012. The winner of this year's FIBA Asia Cup automatically qualifies for the FIBA Asia Championship in 2013.

2012 FIBA Asia Cup
4th Asia Cup
Official logo of the 2012 FIBA Asia Cup
Tournament details
Host countryJapan
DatesSeptember 14–22
Teams10
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Iran (1st title)
Tournament statistics
MVPIran Samad Nikkhah Bahrami
Top scorerLebanon El Khatib (28.3)
Top reboundsIndia Amr. Singh (11.5)
Top assistsIndia Bhriguvanshi (6.5)
PPG (Team) Lebanon (82.9)
RPG (Team) China (46.4)
APG (Team) Lebanon (17.3)
Official website
2012 FIBA Asia Cup
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2014

Qualification

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According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had one place, and the hosts (Japan) and Asian champion (China) were automatically qualified. The other two places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship.

Central Asia (1) East Asia (2+1+1) Gulf (1) South Asia (1) Southeast Asia (1) West Asia (1+1)
  Uzbekistan   Japan   Qatar   India   Philippines   Lebanon
  China   Iran
  Chinese Taipei
  Macau

Draw

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The draw was held on July 1 at Tokyo.[1]

Group A Group B

  China
  Lebanon
  Macau
  Philippines*
  Uzbekistan*

  Iran
  Chinese Taipei
  Qatar
  Japan
  India*

Preliminary round

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Group A

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Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Tiebreaker
  Lebanon 4 3 1 361 247 +114 7 1–1 / 1.068
  Philippines 4 3 1 329 235 +94 7 1–1 / 1.050
  China 4 3 1 353 250 +103 7 1–1 / 0.892
  Uzbekistan 4 1 3 227 337 −110 5
  Macau 4 0 4 204 405 −201 4
September 14
11:30
Macau   51–120   Lebanon
Scoring by quarter: 17–32, 8–30, 8–30, 18–28
Pts: Lo H.M. 14
Rebs: Cai S.B., Lai K.T. 4
Asts: Cheong T.F. 9
Pts: Stephan 24
Rebs: Hawe, El Khatib 7
Asts: Five players 4
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Yasser Abbas (QAT), Huang Yi-chi (TPE), Yuki Kubo (JPN)
September 14
16:30
Philippines   68–71   China
Scoring by quarter: 15–18, 18–22, 23–14, 12–17
Pts: De Ocampo 11
Rebs: Norwood, Douthit 8
Asts: Tenorio 4
Pts: Guo A.L. 18
Rebs: Wang Z.L. 14
Asts: Guo A.L., Cao F. 2
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Yoji Fujigaki (JPN), Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI), Rajnarayan Patro (IND)
September 15
11:30
Uzbekistan   81–61   Macau
Scoring by quarter: 14–11, 12–16, 26–8, 29–26
Pts: Kozlov 24
Rebs: Kozlov 15
Asts: Kozlov, Denisov 3
Pts: Lao F.I. 21
Rebs: Lai K.T. 5
Asts: Iong K.K., Cheong T.F. 3
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Yoji Higashi (JPN), Rajnarayan Patro (IND), Yasser Abbas (QAT)
September 15
19:00
Lebanon   68–78   Philippines
Scoring by quarter: 20–19, 21–19, 12–21, 15–19
Pts: El Khatib 24
Rebs: El Khatib 15
Asts: El Khatib 4
Pts: Douthit 25
Rebs: Douthit 21
Asts: Four players 2
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Huang Yi-chi (TPE), Yuki Kubo (JPN), Reza Javadi (IRI)
September 16
14:00
Philippines   85–50   Uzbekistan
Scoring by quarter: 23–16, 16–5, 24–12, 22–17
Pts: Chan 20
Rebs: Ganuelas 11
Asts: Tenorio 5
Pts: Denisov 16
Rebs: Juginisov 10
Asts: Kozlov 5
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Rajnarayan Patro (IND), Yoji Fujigaki (JPN), Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI)
September 16
16:30
China   69–89   Lebanon
Scoring by quarter: 22–15, 8–25, 21–20, 18–29
Pts: Zhao T.L., Zhang D.Y. 12
Rebs: Zhao T.L. 9
Asts: Sui R. 5
Pts: Abdelnour, El Khatib 25
Rebs: El Khatib 10
Asts: El Khatib 7
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Reza Javadi (IRI), Yuji Higashi (JPN), Huang Yi-chi (TPE)
September 17
11:30
Macau   46–98   Philippines
Scoring by quarter: 14–33, 19–22, 8–28, 5–15
Pts: Lao F.I. 14
Rebs: Lo H.M. 12
Asts: Cai S.B., Cheong T.F. 2
Pts: Chan 18
Rebs: Reyes, Ganuelas 9
Asts: Ganuelas 9
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI), Yasser Abbas (QAT), Yoji Fujigaki (JPN)
September 17
14:00
Uzbekistan   47–107   China
Scoring by quarter: 11–21, 8–31, 19–30, 9–25
Pts: Kozlov 11
Rebs: Rahimov 5
Asts: Rahimov 3
Pts: Zhao T.L. 20
Rebs: Yu C.D., Wang Z.L. 9
Asts: Wang Z.R. 8
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Yuki Kubo (JPN), Reza Javadi (IRI), Rajnarayan Patro (IND)
September 18
11:30
China   106–46   Macau
Scoring by quarter: 24–17, 23–13, 32–9, 27–7
Pts: Cao Y. 16
Rebs: Cao Y. 9
Asts: Wang Z.R. 8
Pts: Lao F.I. 12
Rebs: Iong K.K. 6
Asts: Lo H.M., Lai K.T. 3
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Huang Yi-chi (TPE), Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI), Yoji Higashi (JPN)
September 18
14:00
Lebanon   84–49   Uzbekistan
Scoring by quarter: 24–9, 17–14, 25–15, 18–11
Pts: El Khatib 37
Rebs: El Khatib 11
Asts: Sarkis, El Khatib 5
Pts: Kozlov 15
Rebs: Juginisov 7
Asts: Kozlov, Denisov 4
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Yoji Fujigaki (JPN), Yasser Abbas (QAT), Reza Javadi (IRI)

Group B

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Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts
  Iran 4 4 0 310 274 +36 8
  Japan 4 3 1 318 290 +28 7
  Chinese Taipei 4 2 2 329 322 +7 6
  Qatar 4 1 3 301 296 +5 5
  India 4 0 4 294 370 −76 4
September 14
14:00
India   71–83   Iran
Scoring by quarter: 17–23, 20–17, 21–24, 13–19
Pts: Bhriguvanshi 21
Rebs: Pethani 9
Asts: Bhriguvanshi 6
Pts: Nikkhah 23
Rebs: Sahakian 11
Asts: Davoudi 4
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Rabah Noujaim (LIB), Ferdinand Pascual (PHI), Yang Hongfeng (CHN)
September 14
19:00
Japan   73–69   Qatar
Scoring by quarter: 24–15, 17–21, 20–14, 12–19
Pts: Takeuchi, Kanamaru 14
Rebs: Sakuragi 9
Asts: Sakurai 3
Pts: Ali 21
Rebs: Suliman 9
Asts: Abdulrahman, Suliman 2
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ), Wang Mei (CHN)
September 15
14:00
Qatar   84–63   India
Scoring by quarter: 15–6, 16–19, 27–19, 26–19
Pts: Yousuf 13
Rebs: Abdelqader 11
Asts: El-Hadary 4
Pts: Grewal, Pethani 14
Rebs: Ar. Singh 12
Asts: Bhriguvanshi 5
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Wang Mei (CHN), Rabah Noujaim (LIB), Ravshan Ganiev (UZB)
September 15
16:30
Chinese Taipei   78–90   Japan
Scoring by quarter: 14–27, 20–26, 22–21, 22–16
Pts: Tien L. 19
Rebs: Tien L. 7
Asts: Lee H.L., Tseng W.T. 5
Pts: Sakuragi 19
Rebs: Sakuragi 10
Asts: Sakuragi, Watanabe 5
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Ferdinand Pascual (PHI), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ)
September 16
11:30
India   88–113   Chinese Taipei
Scoring by quarter: 24–31, 17–27, 17–33, 30–22
Pts: Bhriguvanshi 20
Rebs: Pethani 10
Asts: Bhriguvanshi 12
Pts: Chang T.H. 20
Rebs: Wu T.H., Creighton 6
Asts: Mao C.E., Tseng W.T. 4
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Yang Hongfeng (CHN), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ)
September 16
19:00
Iran   85–75 (OT)   Qatar
Scoring by quarter: 12–23, 14–22, 21–6, 22–18, Overtime: 16–6
Pts: Nikkhah 27
Rebs: Jamshidi, Nikkhah 8
Asts: Nikkhah 3
Pts: El-Hadary 21
Rebs: Ali 11
Asts: Ali 3
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Ferdinand Pascual (PHI), Wang Mei (CHN), Rabah Noujaim (LIB)
September 17
16:30
Japan   90–72   India
Scoring by quarter: 28–22, 16–19, 23–13, 23–18
Pts: Kanamaru 26
Rebs: Takeuchi 15
Asts: Sakuragi 4
Pts: Bhriguvanshi 21
Rebs: Ar. Singh 20
Asts: Bhriguvanshi 3
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ), Ravshan Ganiev (UZB), Yang Hongfeng (CHN)
September 17
19:00
Chinese Taipei   63–71   Iran
Scoring by quarter: 20–17, 19–12, 12–27, 12–15
Pts: Tien L. 17
Rebs: Tseng W.T. 10
Asts: Lee H.L. 5
Pts: Nikkhah 24
Rebs: Sahakian 10
Asts: Afagh 3
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Wang Mei (CHN), Ferdinand Pascual (PHI)
September 18
16:30
Qatar   73–75   Chinese Taipei
Scoring by quarter: 22–17, 14–18, 15–18, 22–22
Pts: Ali 17
Rebs: Ahmad, Abdelqader 8
Asts: Yousuf 3
Pts: Tseng W.T. 17
Rebs: Tien L. 9
Asts: Chen S.C. 5
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Rabah Noujaim (LIB), Yang Hongfeng (CHN), Ferdinand Pascual (PHI)
September 18
19:00
Iran   71–65   Japan
Scoring by quarter: 13–17, 12–18, 21–16, 25–14
Pts: Nikkhah 16
Rebs: Sahakian 9
Asts: Davoudi 6
Pts: Sakurai 14
Rebs: Takeuchi 11
Asts: Sakuragi 5
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Wang Mei (CHN), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ)

Final round

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QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
 
          
 
September 20
 
 
  Iran79
 
September 21
 
  Uzbekistan37
 
  Iran77
 
September 20
 
  Philippines60
 
  Philippines75
 
September 22
 
  Chinese Taipei68
 
  Iran53
 
September 20
 
  Japan51
 
  Lebanon72
 
September 21
 
  Qatar79
 
  Qatar66
 
September 20
 
  Japan73 3rd place
 
  Japan60
 
September 22
 
  China50
 
  Philippines63
 
 
  Qatar79
 
 
Semifinals5th place
 
      
 
September 21
 
 
  Uzbekistan70
 
September 22
 
  Chinese Taipei86
 
  Chinese Taipei63
 
September 21
 
  China67
 
  Lebanon63
 
 
  China78
 
7th place
 
 
September 22
 
 
  Uzbekistan73
 
 
  Lebanon84

Quarterfinals

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September 20
11:30
Iran   79–37   Uzbekistan
Scoring by quarter: 17–13, 15–3, 27–9, 20–12
Pts: Kardoust 12
Rebs: Foroutan 10
Asts: Nikkhah 3
Pts: Denisov 9
Rebs: Yahin 9
Asts: Shatrov 6
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Yasser Abbas (QAT), Yang Hongfeng (CHN)
September 20
14:00
Philippines   75–68   Chinese Taipei
Scoring by quarter: 10–13, 28–19, 16–21, 21–15
Pts: Douthit 19
Rebs: Douthit 18
Asts: De Ocampo 3
Pts: Creighton 21
Rebs: Tseng W.T. 6
Asts: Lee H.L. 4
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Rabah Noujaim (LIB), Yuki Kubo (JPN), Wang Mei (CHN)
September 20
16:30
Lebanon   72–79   Qatar
Scoring by quarter: 15–21, 20–14, 20–24, 17–20
Pts: Thompson 26
Rebs: Thompson 16
Asts: El Khatib 5
Pts: Johnson 28
Rebs: Ali 8
Asts: Johnson 7
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ), Huang Yi-chi (TPE), Rajnarayan Patro (IND)
September 20
19:00
Japan   60–50   China
Scoring by quarter: 15–16, 16–9, 13–12, 16–13
Pts: Takeuchi 18
Rebs: Takeuchi 10
Asts: Hinkley, Sakurai, Sakuragi 2
Pts: Wang Z.L. 15
Rebs: Wang Z.L. 14
Asts: Wang Z.L. 3
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Ferdinand Pascual (PHI), Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI), Huang Yi-chi (TPE)

Semifinals 5th–8th

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September 21
11:30
Uzbekistan   70–86   Chinese Taipei
Scoring by quarter: 18–30, 15–17, 20–19, 17–20
Pts: Kozlov 21
Rebs: Kozlov 9
Asts: Kozlov, Shatrov 3
Pts: Chen S.C. 13
Rebs: Lu C.J., Tien L. 5
Asts: Tseng W.T. 6
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Ferdinand Pascual (PHI), Yoji Higashi (JPN), Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI)
September 21
14:00
Lebanon   63–78   China
Scoring by quarter: 11–23, 20–22, 20–20, 12–13
Pts: El Khatib 34
Rebs: El Khatib 9
Asts: Akl, Thompson, El Khatib 2
Pts: Zhao T.L. 27
Rebs: Yu C.D., Wang Z.L. 9
Asts: Guo A.L. 4
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Reza Javadi (IRI), Yoji Fujigaki (JPN), Yasser Abbas (QAT)

Semifinals

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September 21
16:30
Iran   77–60   Philippines
Scoring by quarter: 16–17, 14–13, 23–17, 24–13
Pts: Afagh 14
Rebs: Sahakian 8
Asts: Davoudi, Sahakian 5
Pts: Tenorio, Dillinger 13
Rebs: Douthit 7
Asts: Tenorio, Chan, Fonacier 3
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ), Wang Mei (CHN)
September 21
19:00
Qatar   66–73   Japan
Scoring by quarter: 12–9, 7–21, 20–21, 25–22
Pts: Yousuf 22
Rebs: Ali 13
Asts: Johnson 6
Pts: Takeuchi 18
Rebs: Takeuchi, Sakuragi 9
Asts: Sakurai, Sakuragi 4
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Rabah Noujaim (LIB), Rajnarayan Patro (IND), Huang Yi-chi (TPE)

7th place

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September 22
9:00
Uzbekistan   73–84   Lebanon
Scoring by quarter: 15–28, 16–21, 17–18, 25–17
Pts: Kozlov 24
Rebs: Juginisov, Yahin, Kadirov 5
Asts: Kozlov 4
Pts: El Khatib 44
Rebs: Hawe 9
Asts: El Khatib 6
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Yang Hongfeng (CHN), Reza Javadi (IRI), Rajnarayan Patro (IND)

5th place

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September 22
11:30
Chinese Taipei   63–67   China
Scoring by quarter: 16–18, 8–11, 23–20, 16–18
Pts: Lin C.C. 20
Rebs: Tseng W.T. 7
Asts: Lee H.L. 5
Pts: Wang Z.L. 20
Rebs: Wang Z.L. 14
Asts: Wang Z.L. 4
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Rabah Noujaim (LIB), Yasser Abbas(QAT), Yuji Higashi (JPN)

3rd place

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September 22
14:00
Philippines   63–79   Qatar
Scoring by quarter: 8–12, 18–23, 22–20, 15–24
Pts: Douthit 17
Rebs: Douthit 10
Asts: de Ocampo, Fonacier 2
Pts: Yousuf 17
Rebs: Suliman, Ali 11
Asts: El-Hadary, Johnson 4
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Yoji Fujigaki (JPN), Wang Mei (CHN), Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI)

Final

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September 22
16:30
Iran   53–51   Japan
Scoring by quarter: 13–11, 17–12, 10–21, 13–7
Pts: Nikkhah 14
Rebs: Sahakian 10
Asts: Davoudi, Sahakian, Nikkhah 2
Pts: Kanamaru 16
Rebs: Takeuchi 13
Asts: Sakurai 5
Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo
Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ), Ferdinand Pascal (PHI)

Final standing

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Qualified for the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship
Rank Team Record
    Iran 7–0
    Japan 5–2
    Qatar 3–4
4   Philippines 4–3
5   China 5–2
6   Chinese Taipei 3–4
7   Lebanon 4–3
8   Uzbekistan 1–6
9   India 0–4
  Macau 0–4

Awards

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 2012 FIBA Asia Cup champions 
 
Iran
First title

All-Star Team:[2]

References

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  1. ^ "FIBA Asia Cup: China, Lebanon drawn in Gr. A; Japan, Iran in Gr. B". FIBA Asia. 1 July 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  2. ^ "IRI/JPN – Samad Bahrami emerges MVP as the All Star line-up is announced". FIBA Asia. 22 September 2012. Archived from the original on 24 September 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
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