The Winter Cup, the National High School basketbol Championship Tournament, is a tournament that takes place during the winter and is held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. It is a tournament for high school basketbol teams. Before the actual Winter Cup, preliminaries are held in each prefecture. Only 2 teams can represent a prefecure. Only the tuktok 8 teams from the Interhigh can participate in the Winter Cup preliminaries.
This year, because of a memorial anniversary, there will be madami schools participating than normal. Also, the winner and runner-up of the Interhigh (Rakuzan High and Tōō Academy) are automatically placed.
Course
The Winter Cup preliminaries begin November 7. At the preliminaries, there will first be a "best of four" determination match and the winning teams advance to the final league. Those four teams compete in a league match and the tuktok two teams get a ticket for the actual Winter Cup.
The Winter Cup itself is in classic tournament structure, a single-elimination tournament, also known as sudden death. It will begin with 2 basic rounds, the eight-, quarter- and half-finals and eventually the finals.
Together with the Interhigh Tournament and the Nationals, it makes up the three big high school basketbol tournaments.
Teams that are still in the running for the
Winter Cup opponents
Fukuda Sōgō High
Kaijō High
Nakamiya South High
Kogōmo North High
Ōnita High
Seirin High
Shūtoku High
Tōō Academy
Yōsen High
Rakuzan High
Josei High (prelimns)
Kirisaki Daīchi High (prelimns)
Nozomi High
Senshinkan High (prelimns)
Suginara West High (prelimns)
This year, because of a memorial anniversary, there will be madami schools participating than normal. Also, the winner and runner-up of the Interhigh (Rakuzan High and Tōō Academy) are automatically placed.
Course
The Winter Cup preliminaries begin November 7. At the preliminaries, there will first be a "best of four" determination match and the winning teams advance to the final league. Those four teams compete in a league match and the tuktok two teams get a ticket for the actual Winter Cup.
The Winter Cup itself is in classic tournament structure, a single-elimination tournament, also known as sudden death. It will begin with 2 basic rounds, the eight-, quarter- and half-finals and eventually the finals.
Together with the Interhigh Tournament and the Nationals, it makes up the three big high school basketbol tournaments.
Teams that are still in the running for the
Winter Cup opponents
Fukuda Sōgō High
Kaijō High
Nakamiya South High
Kogōmo North High
Ōnita High
Seirin High
Shūtoku High
Tōō Academy
Yōsen High
Rakuzan High
Josei High (prelimns)
Kirisaki Daīchi High (prelimns)
Nozomi High
Senshinkan High (prelimns)
Suginara West High (prelimns)