2017 FIBA Asia Champions Cup

2017 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
26th Asia Champions Cup
Tournament details
Host country	China
Dates	22–30 September
Teams	10
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Lebanon (Al-Riyadi 's 2nd title; Lebanon's 5th title)
Tournament statistics
Games played	32
MVP	Darius Adams
Top scorer	Alshabebi (25.9)
Top rebounds	Austin (13.0)
Top assists	Brickman (7.0)
PPG (Team)	Al-Riyadi (101.0)
RPG (Team)	Petrochimi (46.6)
APG (Team)	Al-Riyadi (21.9)
Official website
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The 2017 FIBA Asia Champions Cup was the 26th staging of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, the international basketball club tournament of FIBA Asia. The tournament took place in Chenzhou, China from 22 September to 30 September 2017.^[1]^[2] This was the second straight year that China hosted the tournament.

Qualification

According to the FIBA Asia rules, the number of participating teams in the FIBA Asia Champions Cup is ten. Each of the six FIBA Asia Sub-Zones has one place, and the hosts (China) was automatically qualified. The other three places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2016 FIBA Asia Champions Cup.^[3]^[4]

Central Asia (1)	East Asia (1+2)	Persian Gulf (1)	South Asia (1)	Southeast Asia (1)	West Asia (1+1+1)
BC Astana	Xinjiang Flying Tigers	Al-Ahli	ONGC	Mono Vampire	Al-Riyadi
	~~Sun Rockers Shibuya~~*			Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas	Petrochimi
	Dacin Tigers				Sareyyet Ramallah

West Asia

On March 17, 2017, Al-Riyadi of Lebanon ruled the West Asia Basketball Association (WABA) Champions Cup for the fourth time in their history after beating defending champions Petrochimi of Iran, 83-69, in the Final in Amman, Jordan.^[5] Joining the finalists is the first-time participants Sareyyet Ramallah of Palestine, which qualified by virtue of their win over Iraq's Al Mina the day before.

Southeast Asia

On April 23, 2017, Mono Vampire of Thailand qualified to the main tournament by being the champion of TBSL (Thailand Basketball Super League).

Singapore Slingers, who was the runner-up in the ASEAN Basketball League in 2017, was supposed to play in the tournament, but apparently withdrew due to the 2017 Southeast Asian Games.^{[citation needed]}

Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas were given a wildcard slot on September 5, as a replacement to Japan's SunRockers Shibuya. SunRockers Shibuya withdrew their participation due to scheduling conflicts with the B.League.^[6]

Persian Gulf

The 37th GCC Club Basketball Championship was held from May 12 up to May 20, 2017 in Manama, Bahrain. United Arab Emirates' Al-Ahli defeated their compatriots Al Shabab in the final. Joining the champions is the Manama Club of Bahrain, who took the bronze medal by defeating Al-Rayyan of Qatar.^[7] Eight teams vied for the two slots allotted for Persian Gulf Region. The draw for the tournament was held on April 7, 2017.^[8]

South Asia

The 2017 SABA Championship, which is also the qualifying tournament for the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup and 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Asian Qualifiers, was also designated as the qualifying tournament for SABA subzone for the 2017 FIBA Asia Champions Cup. Since India won the tournament, their top domestic club will also represent South Asia, ^[9] which means that the defending Indian champs ONGC will represent India and South Asia.

Draw

The draw was held in Beijing on 25 August 2017.^[10]^[11] Three pots used for the draw. All ten teams except China's representative where distributed among the pots according to their geographical locations. The Chinese representative chose the group which they would like to be in.^[12] The identity of the Japanese team which later withdrew were not yet announced at the time of the draw.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
BC Astana ONGC Mono Vampire Al-Ahli	Al-Riyadi Petrochimi Sareyyet Ramallah	Dacin Tigers ~~TBA~~*
Xinjiang Flying Tigers were not allocated in a pot and joined the group of their choosing.

(*) Identity unknown at the time of draw, later announced as Sun Rockers Shibuya. The team withdrew from the tournament and was replaced by Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas of the Philippines.

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+8).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Astana	4	3	1	285	255	+30	7	Advance to quarterfinals
2	Petrochimi	4	3	1	371	237	+134	7
3	Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas	4	2	2	336	343	−7	6
4	Mono Vampire	4	1	3	330	411	−81	5
5	Sareyyet Ramallah	4	1	3	285	361	−76	5

Source: FIBA Asia

22 September 2017
16:25

Sareyyet Ramallah	100–102 (OT)	Mono Vampire
Scoring by quarter: 21–27, 20–19, 34–23, 15–21, Overtime: 10–12
Pts: Abu-Shamala, O'Brien 24 Rebs: O'Brien 12 Asts: Weeden 8		Pts: Singletary 38 Rebs: Singletary 12 Asts: Brickman 11

BC Astana	65–73	Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas
Scoring by quarter: 19–21, 24–14, 12–22 , 10–16
Pts: Gavrilov 11 Rebs: Gavrilov 11 Asts: Carter 4		Pts: Ravena 22 Rebs: Austin 18 Asts: Revilla 4

Petrochimi	65–66	BC Astana
Scoring by quarter: 21–12, 18–18, 14–21, 12–15
Pts: Warren 17 Rebs: Kazemi 10 Asts: Begić, Warren 3		Pts: Carter 24 Rebs: Zhigulin 10 Asts: Murzagaliyev 3

Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas	82–89	Sareyyet Ramallah
Scoring by quarter: 13–21, 20–20, 21–23, 28–25
Pts: Ravena 24 Rebs: Austin 8 Asts: Ravena 3		Pts: Weeden 22 Rebs: Abu-Shamala 12 Asts: O'Brien 5

Qualification

West Asia

Southeast Asia

Persian Gulf

South Asia

Draw

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Final round

Quarterfinals

Classification 5th–8th

Semifinals

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Third place game

Final

Final ranking

Awards

All-Star Five

References