{"id":304054,"date":"2022-11-18T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=304054"},"modified":"2022-11-18T14:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:49:38","slug":"fiba-world-ranking-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/fiba-world-ranking-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain make history: New number one in FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike"},"content":{"rendered":"

History has been made as Spain is the new number one team in the latest FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike<\/a>. With USA holding the number one spot for over 12 years, Spain is only the second team to top the ranking since its introduction in 2010.<\/p>\n

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Spain\u2019s jump from No. 2 to the top spot resulted from their consistency in recent years in each game of each competition. Spain captured the titles at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019<\/a> and the FIBA EuroBasket 2022<\/a> while also reaching the Quarter-Finals of the Tokyo Olympics<\/a>. Their qualification campaigns since 2017 have also been very solid to help gain more points.<\/p>\n

The United States of America meanwhile did claim the gold at the Olympics but they dropped out of the World Cup in the Quarter-Finals and finished third at the FIBA AmeriCup 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spain’s most recent window for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Qualifiers was once again successful, winning a thriller in Italy and against Netherlands in theEuropean Qualifiers<\/a> to book their ticket to Asia.<\/p>\n

A key component to Spain’s consistency has been their ability to evolve as a national team over the years and develop a large pool of players through the FIBA qualifiers. Sergio Scariolo has used 29 players with nine of them playing in six or more games and three with nine appearances.<\/p>\n

Spain lead the ranking with 758.6 points followed by the United States with 757.5 points. The rest of the top 10 remained unchanged: Australia, Argentina, France, Serbia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Greece and Italy.<\/p>\n

Brazil’s win over the United States and subsequent blowout of Mexico allowed the South Americans to jump one spot from 14 to 13 – swapping places with Poland.<\/p>\n

The biggest riser in the ranking is Thailand as they won all four of their games in theFIBA Asia Cup 2025 Pre-Qualifiers<\/a> in the November window to move up 10 spots to 92nd in the world.<\/p>\n

For more information about the method used in the calculation of the FIBA World Ranking Men, please refer to the “How It Works<\/a>” section.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a>\u00a0to view the full FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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