Ukraine national basketball team

Ukraine Ukraine
FIBA ranking 40 Increase5
Joined FIBA 1992
FIBA zone FIBA Europe
National federation Ukrainian Basketball Federation
Coach Yevgen Murzin
Olympic Games
Appearances None
FIBA World Cup
Appearances 1 (2014)
EuroBasket
Appearances 7
Uniforms
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The Ukrainian national basketball team is the national basketball team of Ukraine.[1] The team participates at FIBA Europe competitions. According to the FIBA Ranking it belongs to the six elite teams that resulted from the division of Soviet Union national basketball team, alongside Team Lithuania, Team Russia, Team Latvia, Team Kazakhstan, and Team Georgia. Their best result to date was getting 6th at FIBA EuroBasket 2013 with six wins. The team has qualified for the 2014 FIBA World Cup after defeating Team Italy in the 5th-8th place tournament. The only major global event that the team has not yet qualified for are the Summer Olympic Games.

History

EuroBasket 2011 qualification

Ukraine opened their Qualification at home, against Macedonia, on 2.08.2010.

Team Ukr B/Her Gr.Br. Hun Mac
Ukraine X 87:69 75:66 80:71 58:71
Bosnia and Herzegovina 86:76 X 80:84 73:64 83:71
Great Britain 90:76 94:85 X 66:64 104:96
Hungary 83:75 74:70 82:91 X 85:82
Macedonia 71:55 70:56 75:56 78:44 X

Group B

Qualified for the Final Tournament
Qualified for the Additional Qualifying Round

Final standings

Team Pts W L PF PA Diff
 Great Britain 1462651633+18
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1353614541+73
 Ukraine 1135602620−18
 Hungary 1135582607−25
 Macedonia 1135567615−48

Ukraine did not qualify for EuroBasket 2011 as one of the top two teams of their qualifying group, but did qualify by the FIBA decision of expand the tournament from 16 to 24 teams.

Competitive record

World Cup

FIBA World Cup
Year Position Pld W L
Spain Spain 201418th place523
Total523

EuroBasket

EuroBasket
Year Position Pld W L
Spain Spain 199713th Place532
France France 1999Did not Qualify
Turkey Turkey 200114th Place312
Sweden Sweden 200314th Place303
Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro 200516th Place303
Spain Spain 2007Did not Qualify
Poland Poland 2009
Lithuania Lithuania 201117th Place523
Slovenia Slovenia 20136th Place1165
France France 2015[N 1] 22nd Place514
Total351322

Team

Current roster

Roster for the EuroBasket 2015.

Ukraine men's national basketball team roster
Players Coaches
Pos. # Name Age – Date of birth Ht. Club Ctr.
SF 4 Pustozvonov, Maksym 28 – (1987-04-16)16 April 1987 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) BC Budivelnyk Ukraine
PG 5 Randle, Jerome 28 – (1987-05-21)21 May 1987 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Eskişehir Basket Turkey
PG 6 Mishula, Olexandr 23 – (1992-04-18)18 April 1992 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) BC Dnipro Ukraine
PG 7 Lukashov, Denys 26 – (1989-04-30)30 April 1989 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) BC Budivelnyk Ukraine
C 8 Fesenko, Kyrylo 28 – (1986-12-24)24 December 1986 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) Lokomotiv Kuban Russia
G 9 Sizov, Oleksandr 27 – (1988-06-16)16 June 1988 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) BC Dnipro Ukraine
PF 10 Tymofeyenko, Stanislav 27 – (1988-06-16)16 June 1988 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) BC Dnipro Ukraine
SG 11 Lypovyy, Oleksandr 23 – (1991-10-09)9 October 1991 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) BC Vita Tbilisi Georgia (country)
PF 12 Korniyenko, Maksym 28 – (1987-06-26)26 June 1987 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) BC Khimik Ukraine
F/C 13 Zaytsev, Ihor 26 – (1989-05-11)11 May 1989 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) BC Khimik Ukraine
C 14 Pustovyi, Artem 23 – (1992-06-25)25 June 1992 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in) BC Khimik Ukraine
G 15 Krutous, Pavlo 23 – (1992-04-09)9 April 1992 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) BC Kalev/Cramo Estonia
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)

Legend
  • Club – describes last
    club before the tournament
  • Age – describes age
    on 5 September 2015

Depth Chart

Pos. Starter Bench Bench Inactive
C Viacheslav Kravtsov Ihor Zaytsev Kyrylo Fesenko Alex Len
PF Maksym Korniyenko Kyryl Natyazhko Stanislav Tymofeyenko
SF Oleksandr Lypovyy Maksym Pustozvonov Dmytro Gliebov
SG Sergii Gladyr Olexandr Mishula Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk
PG Eugene Jeter Dmytro Zabirchenko Klym Artamonov



Past rosters

1997 EuroBasket: finished 13th among 16 teams

Yevheniy Murzin, Oleksandr Lokhmanchuk, Grihoriy Khyzhniak, Oleksandr Okunsky, Leonid Yaylo, Ihor Kharchenko, Ihor Molchanov, Viktor Savchenko, Vadym Pudzyrey, Dmytro Bazelevsky, Denys Zhuravlov, Roman Rubchenko (Coach: Zaurbek Khromaev)

2001 EuroBasket: finished 14th among 16 teams

Oleksandr Okunsky, Andriy Lebedev, Serhiy Lishchuk, Mykola Khriapa, Volodymyr Rizhov, Stanislav Balashov, Dmytro Korablov, Oleksandr Raevsky, Viacheslav Yevstratenko, Dmytro Markov, Vadym Pudzyrey, Viktor Kobzysty (Coach: Henadiy Zashchuk)

2003 EuroBasket: finished 14th among 16 teams

Oleksandr Okunsky, Grihoriy Khyzhniak, Oleksandr Lokhmanchuk, Artur Drozdov, Andriy Lebedev, Stanislav Balashov, Mykola Khriapa, Andriy Botichev, Viacheslav Yevstratenko, Serhiy Moskalenko, Oleksandr Raevsky, Oleksandr Skutelnyk (Coach: Henadiy Zashchuk)

2005 EuroBasket: finished 16th among 16 teams

Stanislav Medvedenko, Serhiy Lishchuk, Andriy Lebedev, Stanislav Balashov, Oleksiy Pecherov, Volodymyr Hurtovy, Ihor Kryvych, Volodymyr Koval, Artem Butsky, Viktor Kobzysty, Oleksandr Raevsky, Rostyslav Kryvych (Coach: Henadiy Zashchuk)

Artem Shvets (BC Kyiv), Ihor Loktionov (Azovmash Mariupol), Oleksiy Onufriyev (MBK Mykolaiv), Oleksandr Kolchenko (Khimik Yuzhny), Artur Drozdov (BC Kyiv), Volodymyr Koval (BC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Volodymyr Hurtovy (SK Cherkasy Monkeys), Oleksiy Poltoratskiy(BC Odessa), Serhiy Lishchuk (Azovmash Mariupol), Yevheniy Pidirvany (Azovmash Mariupol), Viacheslav Kravtsov (BC Kyiv), Artem Butsky (SK Cherkasy Monkeys). Coaches-Vitaliy Lebedyntsev, Valentyn Berestnev

Denys Lukashov, Maksym Vylkhovetskyi, Serhiy Popov, Serhiy Hladyr, Oleksiy Onufriyev, Dmytro Hliebov, Oleksandr Kolchenko, Sergiy Lishchuk, Oleh Saltovets, Oleksiy Pecherov, Maksym Pustozvonov, Andriy Ahafonov (Coach-Valentyn Melnychuk)

2011 EuroBasket: finished 17th among 24 teams

Maksym Pustozvonov, Denys Lukashov, Steve Burtt, Jr., Oleksandr Kolchenko, Oleksandr Lypovyy, Dmytro Zabirchenko, Oleg Saltovets, Oleksiy Pecherov, Serhiy Lishchuk, Danylo Kozlov, Kyrylo Fesenko, Viacheslav Kravtsov. (Coach - Mike Fratello; Assistant Coaches - Brian Hill, Denys Zhuravlov)

2013 EuroBasket: finished 6th among 24 teams

Maksym Pustozvonov, Eugene "Pooh" Jeter, Olexandr Mishula, Dmytro Gilebov, Sergii Gladyr, Oleksandr Lypovyy, Kyryl Natyazhko, Dmytro Zabirchenko, Maksym Korniyenko, Ihor Zaytsev, Artem Pustovyi, Viacheslav Kravtsov. (Coach - Mike Fratello; Assistant Coach - Bob Hill)

2014 FIBA World Cup: finished 18th among 24 teams

Sergii Gladyr, Eugene "Pooh" Jeter, Dmytro Zabirchenko, Ihor Zaytsev, Maksym Korniyenko, Viacheslav Kravtsov, Oleksandr Lypovyy, Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, Olexandr Mishula, Kyryl Natyazhko, Artem Pustovyi, Maksym Pustozvonov. (Coach – Mike Fratello; Assistant Coach - Bob Hill)

2015 EuroBasket: automatically qualified (Through Eurobasket 2013)

Notes

  1. Along with Latvia, hosts were and Croatia, France and Germany. Ukraine has been drawn in Group D, and therefore they compete in Latvia.

References

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  1. FIBA National Federations – Ukraine, fiba.com, accessed 17 August 2013.

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