{"id":43859,"date":"2023-09-16T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/s-sudan-worlds-no-31st-africas-no-1-in-latest-fibas-ranking"},"modified":"2023-09-16T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T16:50:00","slug":"s-sudan-worlds-no-31st-africas-no-1-in-latest-fibas-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/s-sudan-worlds-no-31st-africas-no-1-in-latest-fibas-ranking","title":{"rendered":"S-Sudan world\u2019s No 31st, Africa\u2019s No 1 in latest FIBA\u2019s ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>South Sudan\u2019s national basketball team has skipped 32 positions to become the World\u2019s number 31st in the latest FIBA Men\u2019s World, topping Africa as number One.<\/p>\n<p>This is as the bright stars earned 375.5 POINT.<\/p>\n<p>Before the FIBA Men\u2019s World Cup played in the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia\u2014from 25 August ended 10 September 202, South Sudan was ranked 62.<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan\u2019s first-time participation in the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 made everyone sit up and take notice.<\/p>\n<p>The bride stars made history by beating China to claim a first win at the event, then pushing on to beat the Philippines and Angola.<\/p>\n<p>The country has now qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris next year. This has resulted in a sensational climb of 32 spots in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>However, The USA reclaims pole position with 786.6 points after benefiting from their consistency at major tournaments over the last three summers.<\/p>\n<p>The crowned FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 champions, Germany, stepped into the top three of the rankings for the very first time after moving up a massive eight places and onto 759.7 points.<\/p>\n<p>Spain gained the second rank with 778.2 while the Eritrea, Haiti, and Cook Islands teams came at the end of the ranking 157,158 and 195 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>FIBA\u2019s rankings were changed in 2017 to a system that only takes results from the most recent eight years into account.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympic golds from Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo factor into the current rankings, and obviously help after back-to-back failures to medal at the last two World Cups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. South Sudan\u2019s national basketball team has skipped 32 positions to become the World\u2019s number 31st in the latest FIBA Men\u2019s World, topping Africa as number One. This is as the bright stars earned 375.5 POINT. Before the FIBA Men\u2019s World Cup played in the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia\u2014from 25 August ended 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-43859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>S-Sudan world\u2019s No 31st, Africa\u2019s No 1 in latest FIBA\u2019s ranking - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/s-sudan-worlds-no-31st-africas-no-1-in-latest-fibas-ranking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"S-Sudan world\u2019s No 31st, Africa\u2019s No 1 in latest FIBA\u2019s ranking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. 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