Iran's National Basketball team won against New Zealand in the 2025 Saudi FIBA Asian Cup and bagged the third place along with bronze medal.
Iran NOC; Tehran: Our national
team faced New Zealand in the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualifying round. The Iranian
team won by 79-73 in the match and took third place in the competition. Arsalan
Kazemi became the MVP in the match by gaining 16 points, 16 rebounds, 2
assists, 2 steals and an efficiency of 31. Iran's men's national basketball
team managed to advance to the quarterfinals of the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup in the
group stage with three consecutive victories against Guam, Japan and Syria. The
national team won against Chinese Taipei in this match and advanced to the
semifinals. They lost to Australia in the semi-finals and advanced to the
qualifying stage, where they won against New Zealand to secure third place in
the competition and the bronze medal.