2016 Imperial Basketball City Tournament

2016 Imperial Basketball City Tournament
Tournament details
Host nation Italy
Dates 25 – 26 June
Teams 4 (from 4 federations)
Venues 1 (in 1 host city)
Champions  Canada
MVP Canada Khem Birch[1]

The 2016 Imperial Basketball City Tournament was a four nation international basketball tournament to be hosted in Bologna, Italy.[2] All matches of the tournament scheduled from 25-26 June 2016 was hosted at the Land Rover Arena.[3]

The tournament follows a Single-elimination tournament with the winners of the initial two matches to contest at the final and the losers to participate at the 3rd place match.[4]

Results

Times listed are local (UTC+2:00)

Semifinals Final
25 June
  Canada  95  
  China  69  
 
26 June
      Canada  74
    Italy  71
3rd place match
25 June 26 June
  Italy  106   China  69
  Philippines  70     Philippines  72

Semifinal

25 June
18:00
Canada  9569  China
Scoring by quarter: 23–8, 23–23, 21–20, 28–18
Pts: Heslip 33
Rebs: Birch 10
Asts: Ejim, Scrubb 5
Pts: Yi 22
Rebs: Wang 8
Asts: Guo 6
Land Rover Arena, Bologna
Referees: Gianluca Mattioli (ITA), Saverio Lanzarini (ITA), Alessandro Martolini (ITA)
25 June
20:30
Italy  10670  Philippines
Scoring by quarter: 40–7, 24–16, 24–27 , 18–20
Pts: Gallinari 20
Rebs: Aradori 7
Asts: Hackett 5
Pts: Blatche 21
Rebs: Blatche 6
Asts: Blatche 4
Land Rover Arena, Bologna
Referees: Alessandro Vicino (ITA), Luca Weidmann (ITA), Federico Di Francesco (ITA)

Third place match

26 June
18:00
China  6972  Philippines
Scoring by quarter: 23–22, 11–12, 17–20, 18–18
Pts: Zhou P. 18
Rebs: Zhou P. 10
Asts: Li G., Zhou P. 4
Pts: Romeo 18
Rebs: Blatche 12
Asts: Blatche, Chan, Parks Jr. 2
Land Rover Arena, Bologna
Referees: Gianluca Mattioli (ITA), Alessandro Martolini (ITA), Federico Di Francesco (ITA)

Final

26 June
20:45
Canada  7471 (OT)  Italy
Scoring by quarter: 19–16, 14–15, 14–13, 14–17, Overtime: 13–10
Pts: Scrubb 18
Rebs: Birch 11
Asts: Ennis 8
Pts: Gallinari, Gentile 16
Rebs: Datome, Gallinari 5
Asts: Cinciarini, Della Valle, Gallinari 2
Land Rover Arena, Bologna
Referees: Saverio Lanzarini (ITA), Alessandro Vicino (ITA), Luca Weidmann (ITA)

References

  1. "Il Canada vince l'Imperial Basketball City Tournament, 74-71 sull'Italia all'overtime" [Canada wins the Imperial Basketball City Tournament, beating Italy in Overtime. 74-71.]. Sportando (in Italian). 26 June 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  2. "Basket, l'Italia verso il preolimpico: tre amichevoli, raduno il 31 maggio" [Basketball: Italy going to the Olympic qualifiers, Three friendly tournaments scheduled. Preparation to start in May 31.]. Sport Live (in Italian). Banzai Media S.r.l. 2 March 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  3. Bortolotti, Luca (2 March 2016). "L'Italbasket di Messina e Belinelli torna a Bologna". Repubblica.it (in Italian). Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso. Retrieved 18 May 2016. THe Italian national basketball team under Messina, as well as Belinelli returns to Bologna
  4. Ramos, Gerry (18 May 2016). "Gilas to embark on training trip to Greece, Italy, Turkey; play pocket tournament in Italy". Sports Interactive Network Philippines. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
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