Basketball: Japan trounces Kazakhstan in men’s World Cup qualifying

Japan cruised to an 81-61 victory over Kazakhstan in Group F on Monday within the second spherical of Asian qualifying for subsequent 12 months’s Basketball World Cup. Japan, thirty eighth within the males’s world rankings, constructed a 45-27 halftime lead in opposition to Sixty fifth-ranked Kazakhstan in Astana en path to enhancing its win-loss document from the primary spherical to 5-5. Hirotaka Yoshii scored a game-high 15 factors for Japan below head coach Tom Hovasse. The 2023 FIBA World Cup shall be co-hosted by Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines between August and September.