Teams accumulate rating points and never lose them. Every game awards points to both sides, the winner gets multipliers for opponent quality, playing away and margin of victory, and later tournament rounds are worth more. To stop the totals growing forever, every team’s points are cut by 33 percent before each major event. BASKETBALL · … Read more
Sixteen teams, four groups of four, and only the group winners get a free pass. Second and third place teams play a single elimination qualification round for the remaining four quarterfinal spots, and last place in each group goes home. From the quarterfinals on it is straight knockout. FIBA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP · FORMAT Win … Read more
FIBA Women’s World Cup games today, Sunday, September 13: Spain vs. Germany for bronze at 10:30 a.m. ET on truTV, then the United States vs. France in the final at 2 p.m. ET on TNT. Times, channels, semifinal scores and how to watch.
USA vs. France for the FIBA Women’s World Cup title, 2 p.m. ET Sunday in Berlin. Start time, TV channel, how both teams got here and the result when it is final.
The updated FIBA Women’s World Cup bracket: the United States beat Spain 76-66 and France beat Germany 86-64 in Saturday’s semifinals. USA vs. France for gold Sunday at 2 p.m. ET on TNT, Spain vs. Germany for bronze at 10:30 a.m. ET on truTV.
A naturalized player is one who obtained the passport of the country she represents after turning 16. Every national team may carry exactly one on a 12 player roster. The label has nothing to do with heritage or how long she has lived there. It is purely about the date on the document. BASKETBALL · … Read more
A player must hold the legal nationality of the country she represents. How she got that nationality usually does not matter, but when she got it matters enormously. The dividing line is her 16th birthday, and it decides whether she counts as a local player or against a team’s single naturalized player slot. BASKETBALL · … Read more
Under FIBA rules, the moment a shot strikes the rim the ball is live and any player may touch it. A defender can swat it off the iron, an offensive player can tap it in, and neither is a violation. That is the single biggest rules difference between international basketball and the WNBA or NBA. … Read more
Forty minutes of game clock, split into four 10 minute quarters. In real time a FIBA game usually runs about an hour and 45 minutes to two hours with stoppages, halftime and television breaks. Overtime periods are five minutes each. BASKETBALL · RULES 40 minutes, four quarters Roughly two hours of real time Level Structure … Read more
Five. A player is disqualified from a FIBA game after a fifth personal foul, and technical fouls count toward that total. The WNBA and NBA both allow six. That single foul is the most commonly misunderstood difference in international basketball. BASKETBALL · RULES Five fouls and you are out Technicals count toward the total in … Read more