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MIES, Switzerland: FIBA today announced the procedures for the Draw Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Basketball Tournaments (Men and Women) taking place at 1am Adelaide (1:30 AEST) overnight.

The 12 teams in each tournament will be divided into two groups (A and B) of six teams each. At the end of each draw, the groups should be of equal strength and there will be a strict separation of teams from a same region across the groups.

Official Draw for Women's Olympic Basketball Tournament
Seven (7) teams have already qualified. They are:
Host: Brazil
World Champion: USA
Africa: Senegal
America: Canada
Asia: Japan
Europe: Serbia
Oceania: Australia

Five more teams will qualify through the 2016 FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament (WOQT) in Nantes, France from June 13-19.

The 12 teams will be seeded as follows:
Pot 1: USA; Australia
Pot 2: Canada; Brazil
Pot 3: Senegal; Japan
Pot 4: Serbia; WOQT 1
Pot 5: WOQT 2; WOQT 3
Pot 6: WOQT 4; WOQT 5 

The draw is completely open and without limitations.

The teams qualifying through the WOQT will be drawn into the Women's Olympic Basketball Tournament's five vacant positions following the conclusion of the last game in Nantes on Sunday, June 19.

Official Draw for Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament
Nine teams have already qualified. They are:
Host: Brazil
World Champion: USA
Africa: Nigeria
Americas: Venezuela, Argentina
Asia: China
Europe: Spain, Lithuania
Oceania: Australia

Three more teams will qualify through the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (OQTs) in Belgrade (Serbia), Manila (Philippines) and Turin (Italy) from July 4-10.

The 12 teams will be seeded as follows:
Pot 1: USA; Spain
Pot 2: Venezuela; Argentina
Pot 3: Nigeria; China
Pot 4: Australia; Brazil
Pot 5: Lithuania; OQT 1
Pot 6: OQT 2; OQT 3

The draw is open with the exception of the following limitation:
- Pot 4: In order to balance geographical principles and avoid having a group with three teams from the Americas, Brazil will not be drawn into the group that has two other teams from that region.

The teams qualified through the OQTs will be drawn into the Olympic Basketball Tournament's three vacant positions following the conclusion of the last game in Manila on Sunday, July 10.

Competition System for Olympic Basketball Tournaments (Men and Women)
Both tournaments will open with a Group Phase played in a round-robin format (each team faces the other five in its group). The top four classified teams from each group then will move on to the Final Phase which will be played in a standard knock-out system consisting of Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals, Bronze Medal Game and Gold Medal Game.

The Draw Ceremony will be streamed live on youtube.com/fiba.