TAIPEI CITY (26th FIBA Asia Championship) - The Chinese Taipei Basketball Association recently announced a 24-man roster for its men’s National Team in preparation for the forthcoming FIBA Asia calendar.

Chinese Taipei will participate in the East Asian qualifying tournament at Nanjing (China) in mid-June in an attempt to make it to the 26th FIBA Asia Championship at Wuhan (China).

With China already qualified for the tournament as hosts, three places are up for grabs from the Nanjing bash.

Japan, by virtue of finishing runners-up at the 3rd FIBA Asia Stankovic Cup in Beirut last year, earned an additional berth for East Asia.

Chinese Taipei's 24-man roster includes six overseas players, including a trio playing in China, Tseng Wen-ting, who is playing for BJ League's Osaka Evessa in Japan, and the pair of Jet Chang and Chou Yi-hsiang who play in the US collegiate ranks.

Chang finished a brilliant junior season with NCAA Division II's BYU-Hawaii, averaging 21.2 points and leading the Seasiders to the championship game.

He scoring 78 points in the two Final Four games and became the first Taipei player to be named the Most Outstanding Player in Division II Final Four.

Chou, a 6-4 freshman at Salt Lake Community College, averaged 4.6 points in 15.1 minutes in his first season.

Chinese Taipei will be coached by Chou Jun-san, an assistant coach of the Taipei SBL champions Taiwan Beer.

CHINESE TAIPEI 24-MAN ROSTER: Yang Ching-min, Wu Tai-hao, Cheng Jen-wei, Chen Shih-nian, Ho Shou-cheng, Doug Creighton, Tien Lei, Chang Chih-feng, Chen Tse-wei, James Mao, Chien Chia-hung, Lu Cheng-ju, Chen Shun-hsiang, Su Yi-chieh, Chen Ching-huan, Chang Jung-hsuan, Lee Hsueh-lin, Tseng Wen-ting, Lin Chih-Chieh, Chen Hsin-an, Jet Chang, Chou Po-chen, Chou Yi-hsiang.

FIBA ASIA