2008 FIBA Diamond Ball for Women
# 2008 FIBA Diamond Ball for Women

The 2008 FIBA Diamond Ball was a basketball tournament held in Nanjing, China, from August 2 until August 5, 2008. The FIBA Diamond Ball was an official international basketball tournament organised by FIBA, held every Olympic year prior to the Olympics. It was the 2nd edition of the FIBA Diamond Ball. The six participating teams were Australia, host China, Latvia, Mali, Russia and United States.

## Participating teams

| Group A | Group B |
| - | - |
| Australia  China  Mali | Latvia  Russia  United States |

* Mali – African champions
* United States – Olympic & Americas champions
* Australia – 2004 FIBA Diamond Ball winners (also Oceania & World champions)
* China – Olympics hosts
* Japan – Asia Cup 3rd place (South Korea were Asia Cup champions) → replaced by Latvia
* Russia – European champions

## Preliminary round

* Qualified for the finals

### Group A

*All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8).

| Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Australia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 196 | 113 | +83 | 4 |
| China | 2 | 1 | 1 | 161 | 151 | +10 | 3 |
| Mali | 2 | 0 | 2 | 110 | 203 | −93 | 2 |

* August 2 19:30
* Boxscore

| Mali | 67–91 | China |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 18–20, 14–15, 18–26, 17–30 |||

* Haining, China
* August 3 15:30
* Boxscore

| China | 70–84 | Australia |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 16–23, 17–26, 17–19, 20–16 |||

* Haining, China
* August 4 15:30
* Boxscore

| Australia | 112–43 | Mali |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 21–19, 30–5, 30–15, 31–4 |||

* Haining, China

### Group B

*All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8).

* Qualified for the finals

| Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| United States | 2 | 2 | 0 | 177 | 132 | +45 | 4 |
| Latvia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 149 | 153 | −4 | 3 |
| Russia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 127 | 168 | −41 | 2 |

* August 2 15:30
* Boxscore

| Russia | 69–75 | Latvia |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 14–12, 15–24, 21–15, 19–24 |||

* Haining, China
* August 3 19:30
* Boxscore

| Latvia | 74–84 | United States |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 18–31, 20–16, 19–18, 17–19 |||

* Haining, China
* August 4 19:30
* Boxscore

| United States | 93–58 | Russia |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 17–10, 26–9, 24–21, 26–18 |||

* Haining, China

## Final round

*All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8).

### 5th place

* August 5 14:00
* Boxscore

| Mali | 52–79 | Russia |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 15–19, 11–16, 10–26, 16–18 |||

* Haining, China

### Third place

* August 5 16:00
* Boxscore

| China | 63–51 | Latvia |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 19–11, 15–10, 14–16, 15–14 |||

* Haining, China

### Final

* August 5 19:30
* Boxscore

| Australia | 67–71 | United States |
| - | - | - |
| Scoring by quarter: 15–16, 14–19, 21–21, 17–15 |||

* Haining, China

## Final standings

The final standings per FIBA official website:

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 248 | 199 | +49 | 6 |
| | Australia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 263 | 184 | +79 | 5 |
| | China | 3 | 2 | 1 | 224 | 202 | +22 | 5 |
| 4 | Latvia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 200 | 216 | −16 | 4 |
| 5 | Russia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 206 | 220 | −14 | 4 |
| 6 | Mali | 3 | 0 | 3 | 162 | 282 | −120 | 3 |

* 2008 FIBA Diamond Ball for Women winners
* United States First title
