MIES (Switzerland) - The Asian Qualifiers continue with eight more teams tipping off their campaigns in four matchups on Thursday night.
We're looking at a list of games with history between each other whether it is Australia against New Zealand, Chinese Taipei against Japan, and Korea against China. Meanwhile, Guam will play in their first-ever World Cup Qualifiers game at home against the Philippines.
With every result carrying through to the Second Round, each game has the potential to make or break a nation's hopes of eventually reaching the World Cup.
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Australia are the only team from the Asia region to be unbeaten at home in the World Cup Qualifiers; they won their 12 home games by an average margin of 31.3 points.
Guam will play their first game ever in the World Cup Qualifiers, becoming the 20th team from the FIBA Asia region to take part in the competition.
Chinese Taipei have won just one of their 12 games in the World Cup Qualifiers, but that sole victory happened precisely in a trip to Japan: a 70-69 victory back in February 2018.
Zhou Qi has made seven double-doubles in the World Cup Qualifiers, the second-most of any player in the region, only behind Korea’s Guna RA (8); he has scored 16 or more points in nine of his 11 games with China in the competition.
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