2002 FIBA Asia U-18 Championship

17th Asian Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Kuwait
Dates	December 16–26
Teams	14
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	China (7th title)

The FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship 2002 is the 17th edition of the International Basketball Federation FIBA Asia's youth championship for basketball. The games were held at Kuwait City from December 16–26, 2002.

Draw

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
South Korea   Iran   Lebanon   Mongolia *	China   Qatar   Malaysia   Sri Lanka	Chinese Taipei   Hong Kong   India   Kuwait	Japan   Saudi Arabia   Thailand *   Bahrain *

* Mongolia, Thailand and Bahrain withdrew from the tournament; Yemen was later added to Group D.

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tiebreaker
South Korea	2	1	1	131	129	+2	3	1–1 / 1.016
Iran	2	1	1	136	137	−1	3	1–1 / 0.993
Lebanon	2	1	1	116	117	−1	3	1–1 / 0.991

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
China	3	3	0	301	156	+145	6
Qatar	3	2	1	236	208	+28	5
Malaysia	3	1	2	210	201	+9	4
Sri Lanka	3	0	3	167	349	−182	3

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Chinese Taipei	3	3	0	294	177	+117	6
Kuwait	3	2	1	203	206	−3	5
Hong Kong	3	1	2	212	247	−35	4
India	3	0	3	227	306	−79	3

Group D

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Japan	2	2	0	228	147	+81	4
Saudi Arabia	2	1	1	168	138	+30	3
Yemen	2	0	2	111	222	−111	2

Quarterfinal round

Group I

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tiebreaker
South Korea	3	2	1	308	267	+41	5	1–0
Qatar	3	2	1	248	249	−1	5	0–1
Chinese Taipei	3	1	2	242	266	−24	4	1–0
Saudi Arabia	3	1	2	213	229	−16	4	0–1

Group II

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tiebreaker
Iran	3	2	1	244	202	+42	5	1–1 / 1.040
China	3	2	1	266	211	+55	5	1–1 / 1.000
Japan	3	2	1	258	211	+47	5	1–1 / 0.964
Kuwait	3	0	3	152	296	−144	3

Group III

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Lebanon	2	2	0	199	130	+69	4
Hong Kong	2	1	1	144	158	−14	3
Sri Lanka	2	0	2	126	181	−55	2

Group IV

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Malaysia	2	2	0	151	117	+34	4
Yemen	2	1	1	147	167	−20	3
India	2	0	2	151	165	−14	2

Classification 5th–14th

13th place

11th place

9th place

7th place

5th place

Final round

	Semifinals				Final
	December 24
	South Korea	90
					December 26
	China	102
					China	81
	December 24
					Iran	70
	Iran	49
	Qatar	48
					3rd place
					December 26
					South Korea	105
					Qatar	88

Semifinals

3rd place

Final

Final standing

Qualified for the 2003 FIBA Under-19 World Championship

Rank	Team	Record
	China	7–1
	Iran	4–3
	South Korea	4–3
4	Qatar	4–4
5	Japan	5–1
6	Chinese Taipei	4–3
7	Saudi Arabia	3–3
8	Kuwait	2–5
9	Lebanon	4–1
10	Malaysia	3–3
11	Yemen	2–3
12	Hong Kong	2–4
13	India	1–5
14	Sri Lanka	0–6

Awards

2002 Asian Under-18 champions
China Seventh title

References

• Japan Basketball Association