The 2005 FIBA Asia Championship was the men's basketball qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the 2006 FIBA World Championship at Japan .
In order to qualify for the tournament, teams would have to go through regional qualifiers. At the main tournament, three nations qualified for the world championships: China , Lebanon and host Qatar . China defeated Lebanon in the championship game, 77–61; Qatar defeated Korea , 89–77.
Qualification [ edit ] According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts (Qatar) and Stanković Cup champion (Korea as runner-up) were automatically qualified. The other four places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2004 FIBA Asia Stanković Cup .
Preliminary round [ edit ] Group A [ edit ] Group B [ edit ] Iran 61–76 China Scoring by quarter: 15–14, 20–18, 15–27, 11–17
Group C [ edit ] Qatar 74 –62 Japan Scoring by quarter: 24–16, 17–13, 20–15, 13–18
Group D [ edit ] Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Lebanon 3 3 0 283 191 +92 6 Jordan 3 2 1 244 152 +92 5 India 3 1 2 232 269 −37 4 Hong Kong 3 0 3 176 323 −147 3
Jordan 59–69 Lebanon Scoring by quarter: 11–12, 14–20, 20–16, 14–21
India 47–77 Jordan Scoring by quarter: 15–22, 5–13, 12–22, 15–20
Quarterfinal round [ edit ] Group I [ edit ] Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qatar 3 3 0 243 178 +65 6 South Korea 3 2 1 216 221 −5 5 Iran 3 1 2 212 230 −18 4 Jordan 3 0 3 182 224 −42 3
Iran 58–79 Qatar Scoring by quarter: 15–16, 15–21, 13–26, 15–16
Jordan 64–79 Iran Scoring by quarter: 11–13, 14–23, 9–14, 30–29
Qatar 81 –55 Jordan Scoring by quarter: 14–8, 21–8, 19–18, 27–21
Group II [ edit ] China 86 –53 Japan Scoring by quarter: 20–9, 17–6, 20–12, 29–26
Lebanon 73–87 China Scoring by quarter: 17–24, 10–26, 23–18, 23–19
Japan 59–77 Lebanon Scoring by quarter: 22–27, 7–16, 15–28, 15–6
Group III [ edit ] Group IV [ edit ] Classification 9th–16th [ edit ] 15th place [ edit ] 13th place [ edit ] 11th place [ edit ] 9th place [ edit ] Classification 5th–8th [ edit ] Semifinals [ edit ] Japan 67 –59 Jordan Scoring by quarter: 12–11, 26–17, 17–18, 12–13
7th place [ edit ] 5th place [ edit ] Iran 61–72 Japan Scoring by quarter: 11–17, 13–19, 12–15, 25–21
Final round [ edit ] Semifinals [ edit ] Qatar 79–83 Lebanon Scoring by quarter: 22–18, 13–21, 22–23, 22–21
3rd place [ edit ] Final standing [ edit ] 2005 Asian champions China Fourteenth title
References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
Formerly: FIBA Asia Championship Tournaments Qualification Squads Awards