Syria's men's basketball team meets its Saudi counterpart in the Asian qualifiers tomorrow

Riyadh-Sana

The Syrian men's basketball team will meet the Saudi national team in Al-Jawhara Hall in Jeddah tomorrow, within the first window of the qualifiers for the Asian Championship, which will be held in the Indian city of Bangalore next year.

Our team, which plays in the fifth group that includes Iran, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, opened its qualifying campaign by losing to Iran, 48-94 points, in their match in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

The opening matches of the qualifiers within the first window yesterday, the first of which saw South Korea beat Indonesia 109-76 points in the first group and New Zealand over Australia 108-98 points in the third group and Saudi Arabia over Qatar 68-57 points and Palestine lost to Kazakhstan yesterday by a difference of three points 76-79 points While Jordan beat Sri Lanka 100-45 points in the sixth group, and for the fourth group, Bahrain defeated India 68-67 points and Lebanon defeated Iraq 87-68 points.

The qualifiers include six groups, each of which competes four teams, where the first and second of each group will directly qualify at the conclusion of the Asian qualifiers to the Asian Championship, so that the total of the qualifiers will be twelve teams, while the teams that occupy the third place in the six groups will play periodically from one stage from which four teams qualify To the Asian Cup with a total of 16 teams.