Basketball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 2 teams, 1 team of 4 athletes per each gender. As hosts, China was given 2 teams, 1 per each gender. 6 teams, 3 per each gender will qualify from the 2013 U18 3x3 World Championships and another 6 teams, 3 per each gender will qualify from the 2013 3x3 World Tour Final. The remaining 13 teams per gender will qualify based on the FIBA 3x3 National Federation Ranking updated on 1 June 2014. All continents must have at least one team present in each gender and no more than 10 from the same continent can participate. Also a minimum of 30 NOCs must participate across all events.[1]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1997. Furthermore, all team members must have participated in two FIBA sanctioned 3x3 events between 1 April 2013 and 8 June 2014.[1]

Boys

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified
Host Nation	-	-	1	China
2013 U18 3x3 World Championships[2][3]	Jakarta	26–29 September 2013	3	Argentina  France  Russia
2013 3x3 World Tour Final[2][3]	Istanbul	4–5 October 2013	3	Romania  Slovenia  Venezuela
FIBA 3x3 National Federation Ranking[2][3]	-	1 June 2014	13	Andorra  Brazil  Germany  Guatemala  Hungary  Indonesia  Lithuania  New Zealand  Poland  Puerto Rico  Spain  Tunisia  Uruguay
TOTAL			20

Girls

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified
Host Nation	-	-	1	China
2013 U18 3x3 World Championships[2][3]	Jakarta	27–29 September 2013	3	Estonia  Spain  United States
2013 3x3 World Tour Final[2][3]	Istanbul	4–5 October 2013	3	Romania  Slovenia  Venezuela
FIBA 3x3 National Federation Ranking[2][3]	-	1 June 2014	13	Andorra  Belgium  Brazil  Chinese Taipei  Czech Republic  Egypt  Germany  Guam  Hungary  Indonesia  Netherlands  Syria  Thailand
TOTAL			20

The boys' and girls' tournament will adopt a round robin group stage and a single-elimination medal round, where the 20 participating teams are split into 2 pools of 10. Each team will play once against the other teams in its pool, and the top 8 teams from each pool will qualify for the knock-out stages.

Boys

Pool A	Pool B
Hungary	Andorra
Germany	Spain
Uruguay	Brazil
Lithuania	Romania
Poland	New Zealand
France	Guatemala
Puerto Rico	Venezuela
Indonesia	Argentina
China	Tunisia
Slovenia	Guam

Girls

Note: Guam entered a girls' basketball team into Group B of the competition; there was no Guam boys' team at the tournament

Pool A	Pool B
Hungary	Belgium
Spain	Andorra
Germany	Chinese Taipei
Brazil	Czech Republic
Netherlands	United States
China	Romania
Estonia	India
Venezuela	Egypt
Syria	Thailand
Slovenia	Russia

The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.[4]

All times are CST (UTC+8)

• Official Results Book – 3x3 Basketball