The Dominican basketball team will play this Sunday at 8:10 pm the most important game of the qualifier, in the worst scenario and against the best possible team.
Argentina, world and Olympic champion, with an 8-3 record, will play in Mar de Plata against the Dominican team, which has the same record of wins and losses. Both must win to qualify, if they lose they could be left out of the 2023 World Cup, by not being among the top three places in group E and below the best fourth overall place between groups E and F.
The team that wins would go up to a 9-3 mark and advance to the 2023 Basketball World Cup, and the loser (with a record of 8-4) would be ruled out if Venezuela beat Canada today.
If Venezuela loses to the Canadians, then it would be tied with the defeat of the Dominican Republic and Argentina, with a record of 8-4, and the Official Basketball Rules would have to be applied and Art. D.1.3 (pages 75-80) should be consulted on the System Classification, to define the third place.
Thus, three teams would cross into the World Cup in Group E and the fourth place would be measured with the fourth place in Group F (which also classifies three teams), and the best among the fourth places (EF) would obtain the seventh place in the American Continent. , applying the same format of the FIBA ​​rules.
In Group E, in the event of a tie: Venezuela won the DR by four points, 76-72, on August 29, 2022 in Barquisimeto, Estadio Lara de Venezuela, and the Dominicans retaliated in Santo Domingo on November 13, also four points, 72-68.
On November 10, 2022, the Dominicans defeated Argentina 80-69 in Santo Domingo.
Group F
This group has classified the United States with a 9-2 mark and Puerto Rico, Mexico and Brazil are fighting for the other two places, all three with a 7-4 record.
In case of ties in Group F: Puerto Rico beat Brazil 75-72 on the Isla del Encanto on August 25, 2022, and this Thursday, February 23, 2023, they repeated the 92-90 dose, on Rio de Janeiro, for what they dominated 2-0 in the games between them.
Mexico defeated Brazil, 82-72, on August 29, 2022 in Brazil, and the South Americans took revenge by beating the Aztecs 102-56 on November 14.
This Sunday they play, the local Brazil against the United States, in the city of Santa Cruz del Sur; the hosts of Uruguay vs. Mexico, in Montevideo; and Colombia receives the visit of Puerto Rico, in MedellÃn. All games at 7:10 p.m.
Official Basketball Rules: Art. D.1.3 (pages 75-80) of the Classification System.
D.- CLASSIFICATION OF THE TEAMS
D.1. Procedure
D.1.1. The classification of the teams will be established according to their win-loss balance, awarding 2 classification points for each game won, 1 classification point for each game lost (including those lost due to inferiority) and 0 classification points for a match lost by absence.
D.1.2 The procedure will be applied in all competitions played by league system (all against all).
D.1.3. If 2 or more teams have the same win-loss balance considering all group matches, the matches played between these 2 or more teams will decide the ranking. If 2 or more teams have the same win-loss record in matches played against each other, these criteria will apply, in this order:
• Greater point difference in matches played between them.
• Greater number of points scored in the games played between them.
• Greater point difference in all group matches.
• Highest number of points scored in all group matches.
If they are still tied before all group matches have been played, the tied teams must share the same place. If these criteria are still insufficient at the end of the group stage, it will be the corresponding FIBA ​​ranking that decides the final ranking.
D.1.4. If by applying these criteria one or more teams are already classified, the procedure reflected in D.1.3., will be repeated from the beginning for the rest of the teams that have not yet been classified.