Basketball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's tournament
The women's basketball tournament at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on the Gold Coast, Australia from April 5 to 15. The basketball competition was held at three venues: Cairns Convention Centre in Cairns, Townsville Entertainment and Convention Centre in Townsville for the preliminaries and the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre on the Gold Coast for the finals. This was the second time that the basketball competition was held at the Commonwealth Games. A total of eight women's competed in each respective tournament.
Qualification
A total of eight women's teams qualified to compete at the games. At least four out of the six Commonwealth regions were considered to be represented in each tournament, if possible. For the home nations, each country may compete, however the ranking of Great Britain was given to the home nation with the most players on the team. The teams were officially confirmed on July 28, 2017.Event | Date | Vacancies | Qualified |
Host Nation | 1 | ||
Best Commonwealth Teams in the FIBA World Rankings | 1 July 2017 | 3 | |
CGF/FIBA invitation | 7 July 2017 | 4 | |
Total | 8 |
Rosters
At the start of tournament, all eight participating countries had up to 12 players on their rosters.Referees
The following referees were selected for the tournament.- James Boyer
- Sarah Carey
- Jon Chapman
- Christine Vuong
- Arnauld Kom Njilo
- Simon Unsworth
- Kate Webb
- Snehal Bendke
- Ceciline Michael Vincent
- Sandy Ng
- Artur Decastro
- Matthew Bathurst
- Ryan Jones
- Viola Gyorgyi
- Chris Dodds
- Shuet Mei Ho
- Joyce Muchenu
Competition format
Results
All times are Australian Eastern Standard TimePreliminary round
Pool A
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Pool B
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