Italy gained in opposition to Puerto Rico, the Serbs can play within the region-finals towards the us

Italian basketball gamers beat Puerto Rico seventy three-fifty seven on the World Basketball Championship, and that victory placed the Serbian country wide crew in an unenviable situation.

Namely, at 2:00 p.M., Serbia will play for an area within the quarterfinals in opposition to the Dominican Republic. If the Dominican Republic wins, the championship is over for Serbia. And if Serbia wins, then in the quarter-finals it'll face the better from the match between the USA and Lithuania, that's scheduled for 2:forty p.M.

Let us remind you that Italy beat Serbia 78-seventy six on Friday and consequently put the Serbs in a terrible role ahead of the knockout stage. Giampaolo Ricci and Stefano Tonut led the Italians towards Puerto Rico with 15 points, and Tremont Waters changed into the first-rate in the ranks of the defeated crew with 13 factors and nine assists.

The victories of Montenegro and Australia

The national group of Montenegro said goodbye to the WC with a 73-69 victory towards Greece. Nikola Vucevic led Montenegro with 19 points and 7 rebounds.

This victory introduced Montenegro third area in the group, which means that the very last rating of that national crew will be somewhere between ninth and twelfth location. In any case, it'll be the satisfactory fulfillment within the records of the Montenegrin basketball team, for which this is the second look at MundoBasket.

The first become four years ago, after which Montenegro completed most effective in twenty fifth area within the event.

The Australian country wide crew also stated goodbye to the World Cup, which defeated Georgia 100-eighty four.