FIBA ASIA Championship for Women (DAY 3): Japan gun down Korea in OT stunner

Modified Oct 30, 2013 05:02 GMT

It has been a decade that the Japanese women’s basketball teams haven’t beat Koreans but the 10-year drought came to an end at Bangkok, Thailand when Japanese beat the Koreans 78 – 71 in the overtime stunner in the day 3 of the 25th FIBA ASIA Championship for Women. Japan took the first quarter 24 – 20 while Koreans took the second quarter 14 – 10 to level the score going to the halftime break. After the break Japan took the third quarter 15 – 13 but Koreans took the last quarter 22 – 20 to force the match to the over time (OT). In the OT, it was Japanese team at it’s best and took the 9 – 2 to win the match by 78 – 71. Ramu TOKASHIKI netted game-high 27 points for Japan while Yeon Ha BEON netted 17 points for Koreans.

In other level 1 matches of the championship, China trashed South Asian neighbors India 97 – 36 and Chinese Taipei defeated Central Asian representative Kazakhstan 87 – 57.

Total of 12 teams are participating in the 25th edition of the FIBA ASIA Championship for Women which is ongoing at Bangkok from October 27 to November 3, 2013.

The championship is divided into two levels; Level 1 and 2, with 6 teams participating in each level. China, Chinese Taipei, India, Japan, Kazakhstan and Korea will compete in Level 1 while Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Uzbekistan will compete in Level 2 of the championship.

Top three teams from the championship will qualify for the FIBA World Championship for Women to be played in Turkey from September 27 to October 5, 2014.