A couple days late on this, but just as Nico4nicolas said, we got a 95-81 win over Malaysia to take 2nd in the group and earn a place in the Asia Semifinals for the first time in history. Their TIE helped, but our players still had to win the game after we played CT on Hong Kong last week.
As far as rankings go, we are now ranked 38 with 206.9 Ranking Points. Those are season increases of 30 and 95.2.
We will face Australia in the Semifinals and should have no problem losing by 30+, but it is still great to have Nippon represented at a time when only 16 U21 in the world teams are still playing.
I once had a team with 1757 players and was $25,835,360 in debt. This is not that team. Join the Discord group open to anyone, but especially for USA managers to improve your club or get involved with the U21 and NT programs
(https://discord.gg/cKpNkt2).