The Winter Cup, the National High School basketball, basket-ball 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 basketball, basket-ball teams. Before the actual Winter Cup, preliminaries are held in each prefecture. Only 2 teams can represent a prefecure. Only the haut, retour au début 8 teams from the Interhigh can participate in the Winter Cup preliminaries.

This year, because of a memorial anniversary, there will be plus schools participating than normal. Also, the winner and runner-up of the Interhigh (Rakuzan High and...