Saturday, July 16, 2011

2011 William Jones Cup schedule released

The Chinese Taipei Basketball Association (CTBA) released the men's and women's competition schedules for the 2011 William Jones Cup invitational tournament.

A total of nine teams entered the men's competition, which will be held from Aug. 6-14 at Sinjhuang Stadium, New Taipei City, and there will be five teams in the women's tourney, which will be played at Taipei Gymnasium from July 31-Aug. 4.

Both groups will adopt the single round robin format to determine the winner.

Complete rosters of the tournament haven't been released yet, but I guess most men's teams will be national teams as most teams would love to use the tourney as a warm-up series to prepare for the upcoming Asian Championship in Wuhan, Hubei, China in September.

In the men's competition, two-time Asian champion Iran will be seeking to three-peat in the Jones Cup as well.

Taiwan will send two teams -- the national team and the national team for the World University Games -- to the five-team women's group. The women's competition will be free of charge.

Men's schedule

Aug. 6
13:00 South Africa-Iran
15:00 Korea-UAE
17:00 Philippines-Jordan
19:00 Opening ceremony
19:30 Taiwan-Japan

Aug. 7
13:00 South Africa-Korea
15:00 UAE-Philippines
17:00 Japan-Malaysia
19:00 Iran-Taiwan

Aug. 8
13:00 UAE-Japan
15:00 Jordan-Iran
17:00 Korea-Malaysia
19:00 Taiwan-South Africa

Aug. 9
13:00 Iran-UAE
15:00 Japan-Jordan
17:00 Philippines-Korea
19:00 Malaysia-Taiwan

Aug. 10
13:00 UAE-Malaysia
15:00 Philippines-South Africa
17:00 Iran-Japan
19:00 Korea-Jordan

Aug. 11
13:00 South Africa-UAE
15:00 Malaysia-Iran
17:00 Japan-Philippines
19:00 Taiwan-Jordan

Aug. 12
13:00 Philippines-Malaysia
15:00 South Africa-Jordan
17:00 Japan-Korea
19:00 Taiwan-UAE

Aug. 13
13:00 Malaysia-South Africa
15:00 UAE-Jordan
17:00 Korea-Iran
19:00 Philippines-Taiwan

Aug. 14
13:00 Jordan-Malaysia
15:00 South Africa-Japan
17:00 Iran-Philippines
19:00 Taiwan-Korea
Closing ceremony

Venue: Sinjhuang Stadium, New Taipei City


Women's schedule

July 31
16:00 Taiwan WUG-India
18:00 Opening ceremony
18:30 Taiwan-Japan

Aug. 1
17:00 Korea-Taiwan WUG
19:00 India-Taiwan

Aug. 2
17:00 Taiwan WUG-Japan
19:00 Korea-India

Aug. 3
17:00 Japan-Korea
19:00 Taiwan-Taiwan WUG

Aug. 4
17:00 India-Japan
19:00 Korea-Taiwan
21:00 Closing ceremony

Venue: Taipei Gymnasium (10, Sec.4, Nanking E. Rd., Taipei City)