2023 Women's Basketball Asian Cup
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It's the Chinese women's basketball team.
China's women's basketball team beat Japan 73-71 at the 2023 Asian Women's Basketball Tournament, ending its rival's five-year-long monopoly on the title. China's women's basketball team won the Asian Basketball Championship again after 12 years and the best record since the 2022 World Cup.
The 2023 Women's Basketball Asia Cup features a total of eight teams in the final round: the Australian Women's Basketball Team (hosts), the Japanese Women's Basketball Team, the Chinese Women's Basketball Team, the South Korean Women's Basketball Team, the New Zealand Women's Basketball Team, the Chinese Taipei Women's Basketball Team, the Filipino Women's Basketball Team and the Lebanese Women's Basketball Team. The tournament's eight participating teams will be divided into two groups, A and B, with the top two in each group advancing to the quarterfinals, as well as obtaining direct qualification for the 2026 Women's Basketball World Cup. As the Women's Basketball Asia Cup and Women's Basketball World Cup quota are linked to the tournament, the women's basketball teams of various countries have sent their strongest lineups. For the Chinese women's basketball team, Li Yueru, who was the main player in the Women's Basketball World Cup, was absent due to injury.
After three group matches, China Women's Basketball, New Zealand Women's Basketball, Japan Women's Basketball and Australia Women's Basketball advanced to the quarterfinals. The opponents of the Chinese women's basketball team in the three group matches were the Lebanese women's basketball team, the New Zealand women's basketball team and the South Korean women's basketball team. In the first two matches, the Chinese women's basketball team killed the game in three quarters, and both of them achieved a big victory of more than 30 points, and against the South Korean women's basketball team, China didn't finalize the victory until the overtime. In the quarterfinals, the Chinese women's basketball team and the Japanese women's basketball team beat the Australian women's basketball team and the New Zealand women's basketball team respectively, and the Japanese women's basketball team and the Chinese women's basketball team advanced to the final. However, judging from the course of the game, the Chinese women's basketball team consumed more, and the captain of the Chinese women's basketball team, Yang Liwei, tore her left ligament in the fourth quarter of the game and did not qualify for the final.
In the 2023 Women's Basketball Asia Cup final, Japan Women's Basketball and China Women's Basketball played a tough game, Japan Women's Basketball made a wave of 16-0 in the second quarter, and China Women's Basketball trailed by 9 points at halftime. In the third quarter, Han Xu scored 7 consecutive points for the Chinese women's basketball team to renew their lives, and the two sides exchanged the lead. In the last quarter, Wang Siyu and Li Meng became the key, the Chinese women's basketball team blasted 12-0 to overtake the score, the last moment Han Xu inside the huge advantage of scoring rebounds are dominant, Wang Siyu and Li Meng hit two free throws to help the Chinese women's basketball team to lock the win.
In the end, the Chinese women's basketball team won the 2023 Women's Basketball Asia Cup with a 73-71 victory over the Japanese women's basketball team.
