FIBA Under 19 World Championship: Day Three

Spain-Croatia 86-76
The battle for first place in Group A results in Spanish win after a really close game. Spain has only 11 turnovers and all of the players in the game scoring at least a basket (Brizuela 14, Vicedo 13), while Croatia commits 21 turnovers (Saric 10, Mavra 6) and has four players producing about 90% of total points (Saric 23, Brzoja 22, Mavra 13, Mustapic 11). Also 14 rebounds for Saric, that once again struggles from deep range (0/3).

Australia-Brazil 73-45
With this win Australia earns second place in Group C. The Aussies dominate the game, allowing Brazil to score only 16 points in the whole first half and holding them to 24% from the field. Exum, still recovering from an injury, plays only 18 minutes. Top scorers are Nick Duncan (18) and Emmett Naar (16), while no one of the Brazilians scores in double figures (Lucas Dias Silva and Danilo Fuzaro Siqueira have 8 points).

Canada-Korea 93-75
Canada wins the game and gets the third place in Group A, but Korea plays a good game, giving up only in the second half of the fourth quarter. The Canadians outrebound the opponents 57-24 (with 28 offensive boards), and once again are Tyler Ennis (25) and Trey Lyles (21 and 11 rebounds) the core of the team.
Forward Junyong Choi has 14 points for Korea.

Serbia-Senegal 80-49
Serbia has already won Group C while Senegal has lost both previous games, this game is almost meaningless. Serbia sends al of the twelve players on the court and has 13 points from Mihajlo Andric and 12 from Micic and Jankovic, while Abdoulaye Ndoye scores a double-figures for Senegal (11 points, 10 rebounds).

China-Cote d'Ivoire 81-48
Another blowout, in which China secures second place in Group D. Swingman Shang Gao has 23 points and guard Shuai Yuan has 20, while guard Alpha Touré has 13 points and big man Dalen Traoré has 17 rebounds for Cote d'Ivoire.

Argentina-Lithuania 66-76
With both teams already qualified for next stage, Lithuania clinches first spot in Group B, building the lead in the first three quarters. Another bad game for Gabriel Deck, scoreless from the field, top scorer is Matias Bernardini (15). Tomas Dimsa and Donatas Tarolis scores in double-figures for Lithuania (both with 12 points), being the team's fifth and sixth in these first three games.

Iran-Czech Republic 50-60
Thanks to Lithuania's win, Iran advances to next round, an historic goal in this competition: winning is not enough for the hosts, since they would have needed a larger scoring margin to get the third place in Group B. Czech Republic has 19 points and 15 rebounds from Martin Peterka, while Radovan Kouril ended with just 2 points, shooting 1/6 from the field. Iran has 13 points from Saleh Foroutan Nik and 12 points with 13 rebounds from Sajjad Mashayekhi.

USA-Russia 115-47
United States outrebound Russia 52-27, while forcing 27 turnovers. In these three games of the Preliminary round USA have scored 316 points, allowing 133. That's it.
Jahlil Okafor (15) and Mikhail Kulagin (19) are the top scorers in this blowout.