2016 Imperial Basketball City Tournament

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]

2016 Imperial Basketball City Tournament
Tournament details
Host nationItaly
Dates25 – 26 June
Teams4 
(from 4 federations)
Venues1 
(in 1 host city)
Champions Canada
MVP Khem Birch[1]

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)

 
SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
25 June
 
 
 Canada95
 
26 June
 
 China69
 
 Canada74
 
25 June
 
 Italy71
 
 Italy106
 
 
 Philippines70
 
3rd place match
 
 
26 June
 
 
 China69
 
 
 Philippines72

Semifinal
25 June
18:00
Canada  95–69  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  106–70  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  69–72  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  74–71 (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. Archived from the original on 16 May 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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