FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification the 1994 FIBA World Championship in Canada. This setup continued until the 2002 FIBA World Championship in the USA which were also the Olympic champions; the supposed berth for the Olympic champions were instead given to Americas, the USA's home zone. In the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan that saw the field expand to 24 teams, with four invited teams popularly called as "wild cards" were invited by FIBA. This setup will last until 2014, when FIBA announced that they were renaming the competition as the "FIBA Basketball World Cup". In 2012, FIBA announced that the supposed 2018 world
Lithuania at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Lithuania at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup This page tracks the progress of the Lithuanian national basketball team participating in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. On May 13, head coach Jonas Kazlauskas announced both the extended 24–player main roster and the reserve roster for the national team. On July 1, he announced the condensed candidate roster consisting of 17 players. On August 11, he narrowed the list down to 14 players. The main goal of the reserve roster is to prepare the team for participation in the 2015 Summer Universiade held in South Korea. Some candidates are listed