{"id":57748,"date":"2025-09-05T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=57748"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:49:23","slug":"iran-beaten-by-japan-at-fiba-u-16-asia-cup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/57748\/iran-beaten-by-japan-at-fiba-u-16-asia-cup-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran beaten by Japan at FIBA U-16 Asia Cup 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Jack Shiratani dropped 24 points and 16 rebounds with 3 blocks, while Zen Hawkins notched 20 points and 12 rebounds as the two took turns in leading a big second-half surge toward sweeping Group D with a 3-0 card.<\/p>\n<p>Alireza Rashidi had 22 points to lead Iran, who finished second in the group with a 2-1 record. Safa Behnia had 15 points, 5 rebounds, and 4 assists while Yasin Morovat Halabi added 14 and 7 rebounds in the loss, according to Tehran Times.<\/p>\n<p>The Quarter-Finals are set on September 5 also at the MBank Arena &#8211; the venue of the entire Final Phase &#8211; where Japan will face the winner between the no. 2 team of Group B and Group A&#8217;s third-ranked side.<\/p>\n<p>Young Team Melli will have to go through the Qualification to Quarter-Finals on September 4 against the team finishing third in Group C, which consists of New Zealand (2-0), Chinese Taipei, Philippines, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Clinching third Group D, meanwhile, are Kazakhstan after a tight 53-49 win over Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Shiratani dropped 24 points and 16 rebounds with 3 blocks, while Zen Hawkins notched 20 points and 12 rebounds as the two took turns in leading a big second-half surge toward sweeping Group D with a 3-0 card. Alireza Rashidi had 22 points to lead Iran, who finished second in the group with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7103,7100,7102,7132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en","category-society-en","category-sport-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}