{"id":231681,"date":"2021-08-12T17:56:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T15:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=231681"},"modified":"2021-08-12T17:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T15:56:04","slug":"slovenia-and-france-break-into-top-five-of-the-fiba-world-ranking-men-presented-by-nike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/slovenia-and-france-break-into-top-five-of-the-fiba-world-ranking-men-presented-by-nike\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenia and France break into top five of the FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MIES (Switzerland) – The\u00a0FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike<\/a>, has been updated following the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (OQTs) and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.\u00a0The United States, Spain and Australia remain first, second and third, respectively.<\/p>\n

Led by the country’s all-time leading Olympic scorer and tournament MVP Kevin Durant, the USA beat France in the\u00a0Final<\/a>\u00a0to capture the gold medal for the fourth consecutive time while reigning World Cup champions Spain reached the Quarter-Finals.<\/p>\n

Australia made it to the podium of the Olympics for the first time by winning the\u00a0Bronze Medal Game<\/a>\u00a0over Slovenia, who nevertheless\u00a0jumped 12 points to the No. 4 world ranking.<\/p>\n

Led by superstar Luka Doncic, Slovenia built on their FIBA EuroBasket 2017 title by winning the OQT in Kaunas, Lithuania, to clinch their first spot at the Olympics.<\/p>\n

Among the different factors to consider when looking at Slovenia’s jump was the fact they went into the OQT and the Olympics at No.16 and beat higher-ranked teams at\u00a0 both events – and by big margins, which also awards more points. They won decisively at the OQT over both No. 13 Poland and No. 8 Lithuania, as well as claiming decisive victories over Angola and Venezuela. Then in Tokyo, among Slovenia’s four wins were an\u00a018-point triumph over No. 4 Argentina and an eight-point success against\u00a0No.\u00a02 Spain.<\/p>\n

As the rating system awards points based on the difference in teams’ ratings, Slovenia received more rating points when winning against those higher-ranked teams.<\/p>\n

The same principle applied to both Germany and Italy – who moved up six and two spots, respectively – in the rankings. Belgrade OQT winners and Olympic Quarter-Finalists Italy, who were No.\u00a010, have risen to No. 8 while Split OQT winners and Olympic Quarter-Finalists Germany, who were No.\u00a017, are now just one place outside the Top 10 at No. 11.<\/p>\n

After reaching the podium at the FIBA Basketball World Cup in China as the winners of the Third-Place Game, France went one better by claiming the Olympic silver medal. Les Bleus defeated the USA on opening day and won five consecutive games before falling to the Americans in the rematch that was the title game. It was France’s best showing at the Olympics since Sydney 2000 when they made it to the Gold Medal Game. France have moved up two points to No. 5 in the rankings.<\/p>\n

Argentina, whose Luis Scola ended his legendary career at the Tokyo Games, made it to the Quarter-Finals of the Olympics but their overall showing was not as good as previous appearances and they dropped three places to a No.\u00a07 ranking.<\/p>\n

By missing the Olympics, Lithuania dropped one place to the No.\u00a09 spot while Greece fell four to No.\u00a010.<\/p>\n

Because the ranking has an eight-year competition window including two Olympic cycles (2020 not taken into consideration due to the pandemic), results from the London 2012 Olympics have dropped out while the Rio 2016 Olympics’ results weightings went from .75 to .5.<\/p>\n

Japan benefitted from taking part in the Olympics and moved \u00a0up seven places to No.\u00a035. However, Croatia, a country propelled by electric performances from Dario Saric and Bojan Bogdanovic at their triumphant OQT in Turin five years ago before reaching the Quarter-Finals in Rio de Janeiro, followed up their World Cup absence with another in Tokyo and therefore dropped seven rungs on the ladder to No. 21.<\/p>\n

Further down the rankings, Syria have climbed 10 spots to No.\u00a082, with their qualification for the FIBA Asia Cup a contributing factor. Tunisia moved up four spots to No. 30, to join Nigeria (No.23) in the top-30 for Africa. Uganda made the continent’s largest rankings jump to No. 90, moving up eight positions.<\/p>\n

In the Americas, there were big jumps for Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The former moved up\u00a022 places to No.\u00a084 while the latter rose\u00a019 places to\u00a0No. 97.<\/p>\n

Andorra, meanwhile, have fallen 19 places to No.\u00a099 after having not competed at the continental or world level since 2018 outside of the European Championship for Small Countries that is currently taking place.<\/p>\n

Here’s the\u00a0link<\/a>\u00a0to the full country list of the\u00a0FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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