Ukraine national basketball team

Ukraine

FIBA ranking	40 5
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	14	6	2	651	633	+18
Bosnia and Herzegovina	13	5	3	614	541	+73
Ukraine	11	3	5	602	620	−18
Hungary	11	3	5	582	607	−25
Macedonia	11	3	5	567	615	−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 2014 18th place 5 2 3 Total 5 2 3

EuroBasket EuroBasket Year Position Pld W L Spain 1997 13th Place 5 3 2 France 1999 Did not Qualify Turkey 2001 14th Place 3 1 2 Sweden 2003 14th Place 3 0 3 Serbia and Montenegro 2005 16th Place 3 0 3 Spain 2007 Did not Qualify Poland 2009 Lithuania 2011 17th Place 5 2 3 Slovenia 2013 6th Place 11 6 5 France 2015[N 1] 22nd Place 5 1 4 Total 35 13 22

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 – 16 April 1987 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) BC Budivelnyk PG 5 Randle, Jerome 28 – 21 May 1987 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Eskişehir Basket PG 6 Mishula, Olexandr 23 – 18 April 1992 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) BC Dnipro PG 7 Lukashov, Denys 26 – 30 April 1989 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) BC Budivelnyk C 8 Fesenko, Kyrylo 28 – 24 December 1986 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) Lokomotiv Kuban G 9 Sizov, Oleksandr 27 – 16 June 1988 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) BC Dnipro PF 10 Tymofeyenko, Stanislav 27 – 16 June 1988 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) BC Dnipro SG 11 Lypovyy, Oleksandr 23 – 9 October 1991 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) BC Vita Tbilisi PF 12 Korniyenko, Maksym 28 – 26 June 1987 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) BC Khimik F/C 13 Zaytsev, Ihor 26 – 11 May 1989 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) BC Khimik C 14 Pustovyi, Artem 23 – 25 June 1992 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in) BC Khimik G 15 Krutous, Pavlo 23 – 9 April 1992 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) BC Kalev/Cramo	Head coach Yevgen Murzin Assistant coach(es) Alexander Lokhmanchuk Leonid Ivatin Yaroslav Zubrytskyy 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

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

External links

• Official website
• FIBA profile
• EuroBasket