2013 FIBA Americas Championship qualification

The qualification for the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship in Venezuela was held as early as 2011 until 2012. There are several stages of qualification for some teams.

Qualification format

Each FIBA Americas subzone has a specific number of berths, generally based on the relative strengths of its member national teams. For the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship, the berths distribution is:

Zone	Total berths
North America	2
Central America and Caribbean	4
South America	3
Host team	1
Total	10

North America

For the North American zone, since there are only 2 member teams (Canada and the United States), and there are 2 berths, this means there no more qualification games to be held. Furthermore, the United States won the 2012 Olympic gold medal and was thus automatically qualified for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, thus allowing Canada to earn an automatic qualification. This means they do not have to participate, resulting in their non-participation. This opens up an extra berth, which was awarded to the fourth placed team in the

. With hosts Venezuela losing in the final, the fifth placed team was invited.

Central America and Caribbean

Some teams from the Central America and Caribbean Commission Zone had to qualify for the 2012 Centrobasket. The qualifying tournament was the 2011 FIBA CBC Championship for Caribbean teams. A FIBA COCABA Championship was supposedly held for teams from Mexico and Central America, but was no longer held; the supposed participants in that tournament automatically qualified to the 2012 Centrobasket.

South America

The 2012 South American Basketball Championship determined the teams that will qualify for 2013 FIBA Americas Championship. Since the USA is skipping this tournament, this opened up an additional berth for South American teams, increasing the number of berths from three to four, excluding Venezuela's berth as a host. This brings the number of South America's teams to five.

2011 FIBA CBC Championship

The 2011 FIBC CBC Championship in the Bahamas serves as the qualifier for the 2012 Centrobasket for Caribbean national teams. The top three advance to the Centrobasket.

Preliminary round

	Advances to the knockout round
	Advances to the classification round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Virgin Islands	3	3	0	281	185	+96	6
Jamaica	3	2	1	228	207	+21	5
Antigua and Barbuda	3	1	2	227	227	0	4
Guyana	3	0	3	145	262	−117	3

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Bahamas	4	4	0	355	201	+154	8
British Virgin Islands	4	3	1	264	260	+4	7
Bermuda	4	2	2	233	245	−12	6
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	4	1	3	249	322	−73	5
Cayman Islands	4	0	4	213	286	−73	4

Classification round

	Semifinals				5th place
	28 July 2011
	Antigua and Barbuda	82
					29 July 2011
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	66
					Antigua and Barbuda	78
	28 July 2011
					Bermuda	86
	Bermuda	68
	Guyana	58
					7th place
					29 July 2011
					Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	64
					Guyana	83

Knockout round

	Semifinals				Final
	28 July 2011
	Virgin Islands	79
					29 July 2011
	British Virgin Islands	73
					Virgin Islands (OT)	91
	28 July 2011
					Bahamas	89
	Bahamas	78
	Jamaica	75
					3rd place
					29 July 2011
					British Virgin Islands	54
					Jamaica	55

Final ranking

This were the final rankings.^[1] The top 3 teams qualify for the 2012 Centrobasket.

Qualifies to the 2012 Centrobasket

Rank	Team
	Virgin Islands
	Bahamas
	Jamaica
4	British Virgin Islands
5	Bermuda
6	Antigua and Barbuda
7	Guyana
8	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
9	Cayman Islands

2012 Centrobasket

Final ranking

	Qualifies to the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship
	Qualifies to the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship as a wildcard
	Suspended by FIBA and disqualified

Rank	Team
	Dominican Republic
	Puerto Rico
	Jamaica
4	Panama
5	Bahamas
6	Mexico
7	Virgin Islands
8	Cuba
9	Costa Rica
9	Nicaragua

Suspension of Panama

FIBA suspended the Panamanian Basketball Federation "for many problems that Panama has been going through for several years due to conflicts of interest between two Directives that manifest hold the same authority," as announced by FIBA Secretary-General Patrick Baumann. This means Panama's "national teams and clubs and referees, cannot participate in any international competition."^[2]

South American Basketball Championship 2012

Final ranking

This is the final ranking for the participating teams^[3] The top three teams excluding Venezuela qualify, but with the non-participation of the United States, the fourth-best team excluding Venezuela was also included.

Qualifies to the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship

Rank	Team
	Argentina
	Venezuela
	Uruguay
4	Brazil
5	Paraguay
6	Chile
7	Bolivia  Colombia

References