The draw took place in
Turkey on 22 November 2016.
Seedings FIBA Europe released the seedings for the EuroBasket 2017 draw on 20 November 2016. According to the
FIBA Europe regulations the participating nations, the 9 participants of the
2016 Summer Olympics and
Olympic Qualifying Tournaments would be seeded first, based on their respective records in
EuroBasket 2015, with the remaining teams seeded based on their
qualification records. As in the
EuroBasket 2015, each of the four hosts was granted the right to select a partner federation for commercial and marketing criteria. These teams would automatically be placed into the same group as their chosen partner country.
Final draw : Finland was paired with Iceland before the draw. : Israel was paired with Lithuania before the draw. : Romania was paired with Hungary before the draw. : Turkey was paired with Russia before the draw. : Before the draw it was already certain that Croatia would end up in the group with Hungary and Romania, due to the assignments of Finland, Israel and Turkey in their pot. ==Squads==