The first game on Thursday was between the two eliminated teams and Bolor-Erdene Baatar led Mongolia past Sri Lanka 80-41. The bracket worked out so that the teams in the western half of the confederation were on one side and the Southeast Asian teams were on the other side. Iran’s impressive run continued with a 54-41 win over Kazakhstan to earn themselves a matchup with Jordan. Hosts Thailand were stronger late and Rattiyakorn Udomsuk helped them defeat Malaysia 67-58.
https://www.fiba.basketball/womensasiacup/2023/divisionb/game/1708/Mongolia-Sri-Lanka#|tab=boxscore
Mongolia [80]: Baatar 24/11r Bat-Erdene 13/12r Batkhuyag 10 Bayarmaa 9/9a Munkhsaikhan 8/10r Nandinkhusel 8 Battsooj 6 Erdenebayan 2 Onolbaatar 0 Murat 0 Tuvshinjargal 0 Undarmaa 0
Sri Lanka [41]: Don Thalagala 18 Ekanayake 11 Samarasinghe Arachchige 6 Morseth 2 Warnakula Arachchilage Dona 2 Ravindran 2 Mills 0 Sri Wickramage Don 0 Washington 0 Hiniduma Kapuge 0 Direkze 0 Abdul 0
https://www.fiba.basketball/womensasiacup/2023/divisionb/game/1708/Iran-Kazakhstan#|tab=boxscore
Iran [54]: Rasoulipour 16 Shahriari 14/7r Abedi 7 Golmohammadi 5/8r Shojaei 5 Vakili 3 Esmailzadeh 2/6r Yazdian 2 Asadi 0 Khodamoradi 0 Ghaffari 0 Eissaian DNP
Kazakhstan [41]: Bezgodova 15/6r Yagodkina 11 Alishauskaite 7 Koroleva 6 Gavrilyuk 2 Bagmet 0 Ivanova 0 Beschastnova 0 Ilyassova 0 Kapitonova 0 Astapenko 0 Yerkebay 0
https://www.fiba.basketball/womensasiacup/2023/divisionb/game/1708/Thailand-Malaysia#|tab=boxscore
Thailand [67]: Udomsuk 21/8r Thuamon 14/6r/6a Naumkong 10 Prajuapsook 8/6r Lumdappang 6 Wongtapha 5 Supyen 3 Summat 0 Phetnin DNP Tate DNP Boonjun DNP Hewchaiyaphum DNP
Malaysia [58]: Low 14 Pang 12/9r Tan 9 Saw 7/6r Yap 6r/7r/6s Rajintiran 3/6r Foo 3 Chia 2 Ooi 2 Hiew 0 Er DNP
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