Ukraine national basketball team
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| FIBA ranking | 39
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| Joined FIBA | 1992 | ||
| FIBA zone | FIBA Europe | ||
| National federation | Ukrainian Basketball Federation | ||
| Coach | Yevgen Murzin | ||
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| Appearances | 1 (2014) | ||
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| Appearances | 8 | ||
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| Qualified for the Final Tournament | |
| Qualified for the Additional Qualifying Round |
The Ukrainian national basketball team is the national basketball team of Ukraine. The team participates at FIBA Europe competitions. According to the FIBA Ranking it belongs to the six elite teams that resulted from the division of Soviet Union national basketball team, alongside Team Lithuania, Team Russia, Team Latvia, Team Kazakhstan, and Team Georgia. Their best result to date was getting 6th at FIBA EuroBasket 2013 with six wins. The team has qualified for the 2014 FIBA World Cup after defeating Team Italy in the 5th-8th place tournament. The only major global event that the team has not yet qualified for are the Summer Olympic Games.
Ukraine opened their Qualification at home, against Macedonia, on 2.08.2010.
Ukraine did not qualify for EuroBasket 2011 as one of the top two teams of their qualifying group, but did qualify by the FIBA decision of expand the tournament from 16 to 24 teams.
Roster for the EuroBasket 2017 qualification.
1997 EuroBasket: finished 13th among 16 teams
Yevheniy Murzin, Oleksandr Lokhmanchuk, Grihoriy Khyzhniak, Oleksandr Okunsky, Leonid Yaylo, Ihor Kharchenko, Ihor Molchanov, Viktor Savchenko, Vadym Pudzyrey, Dmytro Bazelevsky, Denys Zhuravlov, Roman Rubchenko (Coach: Zaurbek Khromaev)
2001 EuroBasket: finished 14th among 16 teams
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