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International basketball competition
The 2005 FIBA Asia Championship was the men's basketball qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in 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
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 .
Draw
Preliminary round
Group A
Group B
Iran
61–76
China
Scoring by quarter: 15–14, 20–18, 15–27, 11–17
Group C
Qatar
74 –62
Japan
Scoring by quarter: 24–16, 17–13, 20–15, 13–18
Group D
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
Group I
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
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
Group IV
Classification 9th–16th
15th place
13th place
11th place
9th place
Classification 5th–8th
Semifinals
Japan
67 –59
Jordan
Scoring by quarter: 12–11, 26–17, 17–18, 12–13
7th place
5th place
Iran
61–72
Japan
Scoring by quarter: 11–17, 13–19, 12–15, 25–21
Final round
Semifinals
Qatar
79–83
Lebanon
Scoring by quarter: 22–18, 13–21, 22–23, 22–21
3rd place
Final
Final standing
Awards
2005 Asian champions
China Fourteenth title
References
External links
Formerly: FIBA Asia Championship
Tournaments Qualification Squads Awards