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2012 FIBA Asia Cup

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Host nation
  
Japan

Venues
  
1 (in 1 host city)

MVP
  
Samad Nikkhah Bahrami

Dates
  
September 14–22

Champions
  
Iran (1st title)

2012 FIBA Asia Cup

Teams
  
10 (from 44 federations)

2012 FIBA Asia Cup was the 4th FIBA Asia Cup, the basketball tournament of FIBA Asia was held at the Ota 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.

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Qualification

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.

Draw

The draw was held on July 1 at Tokyo.

  • The draw was conducted before the qualifiers from Southeast Asia, Central Asia and South Asia were known.
  • Most Valuable Player: Samad Nikkhah Bahrami

    • All-Star Team:

  • PG – Ryota Sakurai
  • SG – Hamed Afagh
  • SF – Samad Nikkhah Bahrami
  • PF – Kosuke Takeuchi
  • C – Asghar Kardoust

    • References

    2012 FIBA Asia Cup Wikipedia
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