# 2012 FIBA Asia Cup

2012 FIBA Asia Cup was the 4th FIBA Asia Cup, the basketball tournament of FIBA Asia was held at the Ota City General Gymnasium, in Ota, Tokyo, Japan from September 14–22, 2012. The winner of this year's FIBA Asia Cup automatically qualifies for the FIBA Asia Championship in 2013.

## Qualification

According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had one place, and the hosts (Japan) and Asian champion (China) were automatically qualified. The other two places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship.
| Central Asia (1) | East Asia (2+1+1) | Gulf (1) | South Asia (1) | Southeast Asia (1) | West Asia (1+1) |
| Uzbekistan | Japan | Qatar | India | Philippines | Lebanon |
| | China | | | | Iran |
| | Chinese Taipei | | | | |
| | Macau | | | | |

## Draw

The draw was held on July 1 at Tokyo.
| Group A | Group B |
| China  Lebanon  Macau  Philippines*  Uzbekistan* | Iran  Chinese Taipei  Qatar  Japan  India* |
* The draw was conducted before the qualifiers from Southeast Asia, Central Asia and South Asia were known.

## Preliminary round
### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Tiebreaker |
| Lebanon | 4 | 3 | 1 | 361 | 247 | +114 | 7 | 1–1 / 1.068 |
| Philippines | 4 | 3 | 1 | 329 | 235 | +94 | 7 | 1–1 / 1.050 |
| China | 4 | 3 | 1 | 353 | 250 | +103 | 7 | 1–1 / 0.892 |
| Uzbekistan | 4 | 1 | 3 | 227 | 337 | −110 | 5 | |
| Macau | 4 | 0 | 4 | 204 | 405 | −201 | 4 | |
* September 14 11:30
* Report
| Macau | 51–120 | Lebanon |
| Scoring by quarter: 17–32, 8–30, 8–30, 18–28 |||
| Pts: Lo H.M. 14 Rebs: Cai S.B., Lai K.T. 4 Asts: Cheong T.F. 9 | | Pts: Stephan 24 Rebs: Hawe, El Khatib 7 Asts: Five players 4 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Yasser Abbas (QAT), Huang Yi-chi (TPE), Yuki Kubo (JPN)
* September 14 16:30
* Report
| Philippines | 68–71 | China |
| Scoring by quarter: 15–18, 18–22, 23–14, 12–17 |||
| Pts: De Ocampo 11 Rebs: Norwood, Douthit 8 Asts: Tenorio 4 | | Pts: Guo A.L. 18 Rebs: Wang Z.L. 14 Asts: Guo A.L., Cao F. 2 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Yoji Fujigaki (JPN), Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI), Rajnarayan Patro (IND)
* September 15 11:30
* Report
| Uzbekistan | 81–61 | Macau |
| Scoring by quarter: 14–11, 12–16, 26–8, 29–26 |||
| Pts: Kozlov 24 Rebs: Kozlov 15 Asts: Kozlov, Denisov 3 | | Pts: Lao F.I. 21 Rebs: Lai K.T. 5 Asts: Iong K.K., Cheong T.F. 3 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Yoji Higashi (JPN), Rajnarayan Patro (IND), Yasser Abbas (QAT)
* September 15 19:00
* Report
| Lebanon | 68–78 | Philippines |
| Scoring by quarter: 20–19, 21–19, 12–21, 15–19 |||
| Pts: El Khatib 24 Rebs: El Khatib 15 Asts: El Khatib 4 | | Pts: Douthit 25 Rebs: Douthit 21 Asts: Four players 2 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Huang Yi-chi (TPE), Yuki Kubo (JPN), Reza Javadi (IRI)
* September 16 14:00
* Report
| Philippines | 85–50 | Uzbekistan |
| Scoring by quarter: 23–16, 16–5, 24–12, 22–17 |||
| Pts: Chan 20 Rebs: Ganuelas 11 Asts: Tenorio 5 | | Pts: Denisov 16 Rebs: Juginisov 10 Asts: Kozlov 5 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Rajnarayan Patro (IND), Yoji Fujigaki (JPN), Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI)
* September 16 16:30
* Report
| China | 69–89 | Lebanon |
| Scoring by quarter: 22–15, 8–25, 21–20, 18–29 |||
| Pts: Zhao T.L., Zhang D.Y. 12 Rebs: Zhao T.L. 9 Asts: Sui R. 5 | | Pts: Abdelnour, El Khatib 25 Rebs: El Khatib 10 Asts: El Khatib 7 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Reza Javadi (IRI), Yuji Higashi (JPN), Huang Yi-chi (TPE)
* September 17 11:30
* Report
| Macau | 46–98 | Philippines |
| Scoring by quarter: 14–33, 19–22, 8–28, 5–15 |||
| Pts: Lao F.I. 14 Rebs: Lo H.M. 12 Asts: Cai S.B., Cheong T.F. 2 | | Pts: Chan 18 Rebs: Reyes, Ganuelas 9 Asts: Ganuelas 9 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI), Yasser Abbas (QAT), Yoji Fujigaki (JPN)
* September 17 14:00
* Report
| Uzbekistan | 47–107 | China |
| Scoring by quarter: 11–21, 8–31, 19–30, 9–25 |||
| Pts: Kozlov 11 Rebs: Rahimov 5 Asts: Rahimov 3 | | Pts: Zhao T.L. 20 Rebs: Yu C.D., Wang Z.L. 9 Asts: Wang Z.R. 8 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Yuki Kubo (JPN), Reza Javadi (IRI), Rajnarayan Patro (IND)
* September 18 11:30
* Report
| China | 106–46 | Macau |
| Scoring by quarter: 24–17, 23–13, 32–9, 27–7 |||
| Pts: Cao Y. 16 Rebs: Cao Y. 9 Asts: Wang Z.R. 8 | | Pts: Lao F.I. 12 Rebs: Iong K.K. 6 Asts: Lo H.M., Lai K.T. 3 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Huang Yi-chi (TPE), Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI), Yoji Higashi (JPN)
* September 18 14:00
* Report
| Lebanon | 84–49 | Uzbekistan |
| Scoring by quarter: 24–9, 17–14, 25–15, 18–11 |||
| Pts: El Khatib 37 Rebs: El Khatib 11 Asts: Sarkis, El Khatib 5 | | Pts: Kozlov 15 Rebs: Juginisov 7 Asts: Kozlov, Denisov 4 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Yoji Fujigaki (JPN), Yasser Abbas (QAT), Reza Javadi (IRI)

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| Iran | 4 | 4 | 0 | 310 | 274 | +36 | 8 |
| Japan | 4 | 3 | 1 | 318 | 290 | +28 | 7 |
| Chinese Taipei | 4 | 2 | 2 | 329 | 322 | +7 | 6 |
| Qatar | 4 | 1 | 3 | 301 | 296 | +5 | 5 |
| India | 4 | 0 | 4 | 294 | 370 | −76 | 4 |
* September 14 14:00
* Report
| India | 71–83 | Iran |
| Scoring by quarter: 17–23, 20–17, 21–24, 13–19 |||
| Pts: Bhriguvanshi 21 Rebs: Pethani 9 Asts: Bhriguvanshi 6 | | Pts: Nikkhah 23 Rebs: Sahakian 11 Asts: Davoudi 4 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Rabah Noujaim (LIB), Ferdinand Pascual (PHI), Yang Hongfeng (CHN)
* September 14 19:00
* Report
| Japan | 73–69 | Qatar |
| Scoring by quarter: 24–15, 17–21, 20–14, 12–19 |||
| Pts: Takeuchi, Kanamaru 14 Rebs: Sakuragi 9 Asts: Sakurai 3 | | Pts: Ali 21 Rebs: Suliman 9 Asts: Abdulrahman, Suliman 2 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ), Wang Mei (CHN)
* September 15 14:00
* Report
| Qatar | 84–63 | India |
| Scoring by quarter: 15–6, 16–19, 27–19, 26–19 |||
| Pts: Yousuf 13 Rebs: Abdelqader 11 Asts: El-Hadary 4 | | Pts: Grewal, Pethani 14 Rebs: Ar. Singh 12 Asts: Bhriguvanshi 5 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Wang Mei (CHN), Rabah Noujaim (LIB), Ravshan Ganiev (UZB)
* September 15 16:30
* Report
| Chinese Taipei | 78–90 | Japan |
| Scoring by quarter: 14–27, 20–26, 22–21, 22–16 |||
| Pts: Tien L. 19 Rebs: Tien L. 7 Asts: Lee H.L., Tseng W.T. 5 | | Pts: Sakuragi 19 Rebs: Sakuragi 10 Asts: Sakuragi, Watanabe 5 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Ferdinand Pascual (PHI), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ)
* September 16 11:30
* Report
| India | 88–113 | Chinese Taipei |
| Scoring by quarter: 24–31, 17–27, 17–33, 30–22 |||
| Pts: Bhriguvanshi 20 Rebs: Pethani 10 Asts: Bhriguvanshi 12 | | Pts: Chang T.H. 20 Rebs: Wu T.H., Creighton 6 Asts: Mao C.E., Tseng W.T. 4 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Yang Hongfeng (CHN), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ)
* September 16 19:00
* Report
| Iran | 85–75 (OT) | Qatar |
| Scoring by quarter: 12–23, 14–22, 21–6, 22–18, Overtime: 16–6 |||
| Pts: Nikkhah 27 Rebs: Jamshidi, Nikkhah 8 Asts: Nikkhah 3 | | Pts: El-Hadary 21 Rebs: Ali 11 Asts: Ali 3 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Ferdinand Pascual (PHI), Wang Mei (CHN), Rabah Noujaim (LIB)
* September 17 16:30
* Report
| Japan | 90–72 | India |
| Scoring by quarter: 28–22, 16–19, 23–13, 23–18 |||
| Pts: Kanamaru 26 Rebs: Takeuchi 15 Asts: Sakuragi 4 | | Pts: Bhriguvanshi 21 Rebs: Ar. Singh 20 Asts: Bhriguvanshi 3 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ), Ravshan Ganiev (UZB), Yang Hongfeng (CHN)
* September 17 19:00
* Report
| Chinese Taipei | 63–71 | Iran |
| Scoring by quarter: 20–17, 19–12, 12–27, 12–15 |||
| Pts: Tien L. 17 Rebs: Tseng W.T. 10 Asts: Lee H.L. 5 | | Pts: Nikkhah 24 Rebs: Sahakian 10 Asts: Afagh 3 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Wang Mei (CHN), Ferdinand Pascual (PHI)
* September 18 16:30
* Report
| Qatar | 73–75 | Chinese Taipei |
| Scoring by quarter: 22–17, 14–18, 15–18, 22–22 |||
| Pts: Ali 17 Rebs: Ahmad, Abdelqader 8 Asts: Yousuf 3 | | Pts: Tseng W.T. 17 Rebs: Tien L. 9 Asts: Chen S.C. 5 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Rabah Noujaim (LIB), Yang Hongfeng (CHN), Ferdinand Pascual (PHI)
* September 18 19:00
* Report
| Iran | 71–65 | Japan |
| Scoring by quarter: 13–17, 12–18, 21–16, 25–14 |||
| Pts: Nikkhah 16 Rebs: Sahakian 9 Asts: Davoudi 6 | | Pts: Sakurai 14 Rebs: Takeuchi 11 Asts: Sakuragi 5 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Wang Mei (CHN), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ)

## Final round

| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | | Final | Final |
| September 20 | September 20 | | | |
| Iran | 79 | | | |
| Iran | 79 | September 21 | September 21 | | |
| Uzbekistan | 37 | September 21 | September 21 | |
| Uzbekistan | 37 | Iran | 77 | |
| September 20 | September 20 | | Iran | 77 | |
| September 20 | September 20 | Philippines | 60 | |
| Philippines | 75 | Philippines | 60 | |
| Philippines | 75 | | | | September 22 | September 22 |
| Chinese Taipei | 68 | | | | September 22 | September 22 |
| Chinese Taipei | 68 | | | | Iran | 53 |
| September 20 | September 20 | | | | | Iran | 53 |
| September 20 | September 20 | | | | Japan | 51 |
| Lebanon | 72 | | | | Japan | 51 |
| Lebanon | 72 | September 21 | September 21 | | | |
| Qatar | 79 | September 21 | September 21 | | | |
| Qatar | 79 | Qatar | 66 | | | |
| September 20 | September 20 | | Qatar | 66 | | | |
| September 20 | September 20 | Japan | 73 | | 3rd place | 3rd place |
| Japan | 60 | Japan | 73 | | 3rd place | 3rd place |
| Japan | 60 | | | | September 22 | September 22 |
| China | 50 | | | | September 22 | September 22 |
| China | 50 | | | | Philippines | 63 |
| | | | | | Qatar | 79 |
| Semifinals | Semifinals | 5th place | 5th place |
| September 21 | September 21 |
| Uzbekistan | 70 |
| Uzbekistan | 70 | September 22 | September 22 |
| Chinese Taipei | 86 | September 22 | September 22 |
| Chinese Taipei | 86 | Chinese Taipei | 63 |
| September 21 | September 21 | | Chinese Taipei | 63 |
| September 21 | September 21 | China | 67 |
| Lebanon | 63 | China | 67 |
| China | 78 | | |
| China | 78 | 7th place | 7th place |
| | | September 22 | September 22 |
| | | Uzbekistan | 73 |
| | | Lebanon | 84 |

### Quarterfinals

* September 20 11:30
* Report
| Iran | 79–37 | Uzbekistan |
| Scoring by quarter: 17–13, 15–3, 27–9, 20–12 |||
| Pts: Kardoust 12 Rebs: Foroutan 10 Asts: Nikkhah 3 | | Pts: Denisov 9 Rebs: Yahin 9 Asts: Shatrov 6 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Yasser Abbas (QAT), Yang Hongfeng (CHN)
* September 20 14:00
* Report
| Philippines | 75–68 | Chinese Taipei |
| Scoring by quarter: 10–13, 28–19, 16–21, 21–15 |||
| Pts: Douthit 19 Rebs: Douthit 18 Asts: De Ocampo 3 | | Pts: Creighton 21 Rebs: Tseng W.T. 6 Asts: Lee H.L. 4 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Rabah Noujaim (LIB), Yuki Kubo (JPN), Wang Mei (CHN)
* September 20 16:30
* Report
| Lebanon | 72–79 | Qatar |
| Scoring by quarter: 15–21, 20–14, 20–24, 17–20 |||
| Pts: Thompson 26 Rebs: Thompson 16 Asts: El Khatib 5 | | Pts: Johnson 28 Rebs: Ali 8 Asts: Johnson 7 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ), Huang Yi-chi (TPE), Rajnarayan Patro (IND)
* September 20 19:00
* Report
| Japan | 60–50 | China |
| Scoring by quarter: 15–16, 16–9, 13–12, 16–13 |||
| Pts: Takeuchi 18 Rebs: Takeuchi 10 Asts: Hinkley, Sakurai, Sakuragi 2 | | Pts: Wang Z.L. 15 Rebs: Wang Z.L. 14 Asts: Wang Z.L. 3 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Ferdinand Pascual (PHI), Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI), Huang Yi-chi (TPE)

### Semifinals 5th–8th

* September 21 11:30
* Report
| Uzbekistan | 70–86 | Chinese Taipei |
| Scoring by quarter: 18–30, 15–17, 20–19, 17–20 |||
| Pts: Kozlov 21 Rebs: Kozlov 9 Asts: Kozlov, Shatrov 3 | | Pts: Chen S.C. 13 Rebs: Lu C.J., Tien L. 5 Asts: Tseng W.T. 6 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Ferdinand Pascual (PHI), Yoji Higashi (JPN), Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI)
* September 21 14:00
* Report
| Lebanon | 63–78 | China |
| Scoring by quarter: 11–23, 20–22, 20–20, 12–13 |||
| Pts: El Khatib 34 Rebs: El Khatib 9 Asts: Akl, Thompson, El Khatib 2 | | Pts: Zhao T.L. 27 Rebs: Yu C.D., Wang Z.L. 9 Asts: Guo A.L. 4 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Reza Javadi (IRI), Yoji Fujigaki (JPN), Yasser Abbas (QAT)

### Semifinals

* September 21 16:30
* Report
| Iran | 77–60 | Philippines |
| Scoring by quarter: 16–17, 14–13, 23–17, 24–13 |||
| Pts: Afagh 14 Rebs: Sahakian 8 Asts: Davoudi, Sahakian 5 | | Pts: Tenorio, Dillinger 13 Rebs: Douthit 7 Asts: Tenorio, Chan, Fonacier 3 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ), Wang Mei (CHN)
* September 21 19:00
* Report
| Qatar | 66–73 | Japan |
| Scoring by quarter: 12–9, 7–21, 20–21, 25–22 |||
| Pts: Yousuf 22 Rebs: Ali 13 Asts: Johnson 6 | | Pts: Takeuchi 18 Rebs: Takeuchi, Sakuragi 9 Asts: Sakurai, Sakuragi 4 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Rabah Noujaim (LIB), Rajnarayan Patro (IND), Huang Yi-chi (TPE)

### 7th place

* September 22 9:00
* Report
| Uzbekistan | 73–84 | Lebanon |
| Scoring by quarter: 15–28, 16–21, 17–18, 25–17 |||
| Pts: Kozlov 24 Rebs: Juginisov, Yahin, Kadirov 5 Asts: Kozlov 4 | | Pts: El Khatib 44 Rebs: Hawe 9 Asts: El Khatib 6 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Yang Hongfeng (CHN), Reza Javadi (IRI), Rajnarayan Patro (IND)

### 5th place

* September 22 11:30
* Report
| Chinese Taipei | 63–67 | China |
| Scoring by quarter: 16–18, 8–11, 23–20, 16–18 |||
| Pts: Lin C.C. 20 Rebs: Tseng W.T. 7 Asts: Lee H.L. 5 | | Pts: Wang Z.L. 20 Rebs: Wang Z.L. 14 Asts: Wang Z.L. 4 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Rabah Noujaim (LIB), Yasser Abbas(QAT), Yuji Higashi (JPN)

### 3rd place

* September 22 14:00
* Report
| Philippines | 63–79 | Qatar |
| Scoring by quarter: 8–12, 18–23, 22–20, 15–24 |||
| Pts: Douthit 17 Rebs: Douthit 10 Asts: de Ocampo, Fonacier 2 | | Pts: Yousuf 17 Rebs: Suliman, Ali 11 Asts: El-Hadary, Johnson 4 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Yoji Fujigaki (JPN), Wang Mei (CHN), Amir Hossein Safarzadeh (IRI)

### Final

* September 22 16:30
* Report
| Iran | 53–51 | Japan |
| Scoring by quarter: 13–11, 17–12, 10–21, 13–7 |||
| Pts: Nikkhah 14 Rebs: Sahakian 10 Asts: Davoudi, Sahakian, Nikkhah 2 | | Pts: Kanamaru 16 Rebs: Takeuchi 13 Asts: Sakurai 5 |
* Ota Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Marwan Egho (LIB), Yevgeniy Mikheyev (KAZ), Ferdinand Pascal (PHI)

## Final standing

* Qualified for the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship
| Rank | Team | Record |
| | Iran | 7–0 |
| | Japan | 5–2 |
| | Qatar | 3–4 |
| 4 | Philippines | 4–3 |
| 5 | China | 5–2 |
| 6 | Chinese Taipei | 3–4 |
| 7 | Lebanon | 4–3 |
| 8 | Uzbekistan | 1–6 |
| 9 | India | 0–4 |
| 9 | Macau | 0–4 |

## Awards

* 2012 FIBA Asia Cup champions
* Iran First title
* Most Valuable Player: Samad Nikkhah Bahrami
All-Star Team:
* PG – Ryota Sakurai
* SG – Hamed Afagh
* SF – Samad Nikkhah Bahrami
* PF – Kosuke Takeuchi
* C – Asghar Kardoust