The Winter Cup preliminaries begin November 7. At the preliminaries, there is a "best of four" determination match and the winning teams advance to the final league. Those four teams compete in three league matches and the top 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 begins with 3 basic rounds, the quarter- and semi-finals and eventually the finals.

Together with the Interhigh Tournament and the Nationals, it makes up the three big high school basketball tournaments.

SELECT YOUR TEAM:

•Yōsen High (Akita) •Rakuzan High (Kyoto, Interhigh Champion) •Shūtoku High (Tokyo 1st) •Tōō Academy (Tokyo, Interhigh Runner-up) •Kaijō High (Kanagawa) •Seirin High (Tokyo 2nd) •Kogōmo North High (Niigata) •Nakamiya South High (Kagawa) •Yamanoe High (Miyagi) •Kamakura High (Fukushima) •Fukuda Sōgō Academy (Shizuoka

Yōsen High Players: Atsushi Murasakibara (GoM Tatsuya Himuro Wei Liu Kenichi Okamaru (Captain) Kensuke Fukui (Vice-Captain)

Rakuzan High Players: Seijūrō Akashi (Captain and GoM) Reo Mibuchi (Vice-Captain and Uncrowned King) Kōtarō Hayama (Uncrowned King) Eikichi Nebuya (Uncrowned King) Chihiro Mayuzumi

Shūtoku High Players: Shintarō Midorima (GoM) Kazunari Takao Yūya Miyaji Taisuke Ōtsubo (Captain) Kiyoshi Miyaji Shinsuke Kimura (Vice-Captain)

Tōō Academy Players: Daiki Aomine (GoM) Ryō Sakurai Kōsuke Wakamatsu Shoichi Imayoshi (Captain) Yoshinori Susa (Vice-Captain)

Kaijō High Players: Ryōta Kise (GoM) Shinya Nakamura Mitsuhiro Hayakawa Yukio Kasamatsu (Captain) Yoshitaka Moriyama Kōji Kobori (Vice-Captain)

Seirin High Players: Tetsuya Kuroko (GoM) Taiga Kagami Junpei Hyūga Shun Izuki Rinnosuke Mitobe Shinji Koganei Satoshi Tsuchida Kōki Furihata Kōichi Kawahara Hiroshi Fukuda Teppei Kiyoshi (Uncrowned King)

Fukuda Sōgō Player: Shōgō Haizaki (Former GoM)

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