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PANDEMIC can t stop the third window of the 2021 Fiba Asia Cup qualifiers from rolling starting on Thursday.
Nine nations will see action in the designated window from Feb. 18 to 22 as they all vie for tickets to the continental tiff in Malaysia scheduled in August.
Australia and New Zealand face off on Saturday at Cairns in the sole game scheduled from Group C.
Travel restrictions have earlier forced Fiba s hand to once again postpone games for Guam and Hong Kong, which belong in the aforementioned bracket.
Meanwhile, two groups will be playing in Bahrain with the Manama bubble once again open for business.
Feb 13, 2021
The 12 nations scheduled to participate in the final window of Asia Cup qualifying in Doha have been notified by FIBA that the window has been canceled due to a rise in COVID-19 cases in Qatar, the Japan Basketball Association announced Friday night.
In late January, the pandemic caused the qualifying window to be shifted from Tokyo to Doha, where the teams, split into three groups of four, would have competed in a bubble.
Japan is in Group B which was scheduled to play from Feb. 18 to 23 with China, Malaysia and Taiwan. Malaysia and Taiwan had already pulled out of the window due to coronavirus concerns prior to the cancellation of the Doha qualifiers.