{"id":73774,"date":"2025-08-16T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73774\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:36:10","slug":"fiba-asia-cup-australia-defeat-iran-boomers-results-qualify-for-final-video-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73774\/","title":{"rendered":"FIBA Asia Cup, Australia defeat Iran, Boomers results, qualify for final, video, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is one victory away from sealing a three-peat of FIBA Asia Cup titles after cruising past Iran in Saturday\u2019s semi-final in Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p>The undefeated Boomers secured a commanding 92-48 victory over Iran at Abdullah Sports City to book their place in the final, where they\u2019ll face 16-time champions China.<\/p>\n<p>After an evenly-contested opening quarter, Australia dominated the second stanza and raced towards a 51-29 at half-time. Iran never looked like closing the gap, ultimately succumbing to a heavy 44-point defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Watch live coverage of The FIBA Asia Cup 2025 with ESPN on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkbasketball-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-bkb-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" title=\"kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Join now and get your first month for just $1 &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack McVeigh scored a game-high 17 points, while Boomers teammate Harry Wessels added 16 points. Will Hickey was named player of the game after contributing 14 points, six rebounds and six assists.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755205269_854_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud of how, down to the last man, we handled ourselves well,\u201d Hickey said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can play defence, you can always win games. I\u2019m proud of just everyone down the line contributing today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sina Vahedi top-scored for Iran with 11 points, while Mobin Sheikhi notched eight points, four rebounds and three assists. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough game for us,\u201d Vahedi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started good, but step by step, we lost confidence and focus on offense and defense. After, they just dominated the game. We should now focus on our next game and hope to get a medal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Australia, who won the previous two editions of the tournament in 2017 and 2022, toppled South Korea, Lebanon and Qatar during the group stage before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/basketball\/undefeated-boomers-topple-rivals-seven-years-after-infamous-brawl-to-qualify-for-semifinals\/news-story\/6875a6eab6570bb55a7325b1954adbb9\" title=\"www.foxsports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">defeating the Philippines in the quarter-finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The undefeated China, who defeated New Zealand in the semi-finals, have not won an Asia Cup title since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The FIBA Asia Cup Final is scheduled to commence on Monday at 2am AEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia is one victory away from sealing a three-peat of FIBA Asia Cup titles after cruising past Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-73774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}