FIBA Olympic Qualifiers 2016

Today in the Philippines, July 5, 2016, is the beginning of our National Men's Basketball Team's journey to Rio Olympics as Gilas Pilipinas tries to secure a spot in the Olympics 2016 at Rio.  There are three Olympic Qualifying Tournaments held around the globe which gives more opportunity to basketball countries like the Philippines.

There are 18 nations competing across the three respective tournaments, with six teams going head-to-head at each of them. The winners of each of the three tournaments will all take the highly coveted last remaining tickets for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

This is a new system for FIBA Qualifiers for the Olympics. Fifteen (15) teams are given another chance at the Olympics plus three (3) more teams will compete as hosts of the three OQTs to be held simultaneously from July 4-10 2016.

These are the teams:

Host/Location: Italy

Group A: Greece, Mexico, Iran
Group B: Tunisia, Croatia, Italy

Host/Location: Serbia

Group A: Serbia, Angola, Puerto Rico
Group B: Japan, CZE, Latvia

Host/Location: Philippines

Group A: Turkey, Senegal, Canada
Group B: France, New Zealand, Philippines

Visit Bleacher Report for the complete schedule of the games here. The Sixth Man will surely help Gilas so please come and watch the games at Mall of Asia Arena. Tickets available at SM Tickets.

This will be a great ride for us! Let's go Gilas!