Once all 24 teams for the 2010 FIBA World Championship are known, FIBA and the Local Organizing Committee will conduct a draw to determine the composition of the 4 groups of six teams each.

These four groups will play round-robin within their groups during the Preliminary Round of the World Championship.

The draw for the 2010 FIBA World Championship will take place in Istanbul on 15th December 2009. The following teams have been qualified as per date:

Turkey (host) and US.A. (Olympic Champion) as well as Angola, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Greece, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jordan, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain and Tunisia."

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