Gilas Pilipinas jumps 4 spots in FIBA men’s ranking

The Philippine men’s national basketball team jumped from rank No. 38 to No. 34 following its success during the Olympic Qualifying Tournament last July where they upset the host team and world’s No. 6 Latvia.

The Philippines and Japan were the only teams who made a leap in Asia's Top 10. The other Asian squads dropped from one to three rankings from their previous positions.

Japan moved up from No. 26 to No. 21 in the world rankings following their Paris Olympics stint.

Meanwhile, the other Asian Top 10 who went down from their rankings were No. 7 Australia (-2), No. 22 New Zealand (-1), No. 28 Iran (-1), No. 29 Lebanon (-1), No. 30 China (-1), No. 35 Jordan (-3), No. 53 South Korea (-3), and No. 56 Saudi Arabia (-3).

Overall, Team USA still holds the No. 1 position while the former No. 4 Serbia took the second spot after its gritty Olympic stint.

Germany remained at No. 3 while Olympic host France jumped five spots to become the world’s No. 4 ranked team.

Canada went two spots up to get the No. 5 position while Spain fell four places from its previous No. 2 to No. 6.

Asia’s top ranked team Australia got the No. 7 spot while Argentina stayed at No.8.

Gilas’ OQT victim, Latvia went three spots down to be ranked as No. 9 followed by Lithuania to complete the top 10 in the world.