Tide's Green and USA U18 Team Win Opening Game
7/14/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
July 14, 2008
FORMOSA, ARGENTINA - JaMychal Green started and scored four points and grabbed five rebounds to help the USA U18 National Team defeat Venezuela 82-73 in the opening game of the 2008 FIBA Americas U18 Championships in Formosa, Argentina on Monday afternoon.
Green is an incoming freshman from Montgomery on the University of Alabama basketball team. Green and his USA teammates will play the Bahamas National Team on Tuesday afternoon and will close out its preliminary round play against Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The semifinals are July 17 and the gold medal game is on Friday, July 18.
California native Travis Wear came off the bench to lead the USA with 15 points. Starters Kemba Walker and Ryan Kelly both scored 12 points. Ryan led the game with 10 rebounds as well. Green played nine minutes in the game. He was 2-of-3 from the field. His game included one assist, one block, two steals, a turnover and three personal fouls.
About the FIBA Championships: Featuring eight U18 national teams from North, South and Central America and the Caribbean, the 2008 FIBA Americas U18 Championship will qualify the top four finishing teams for the 2009 FIBA U19 World Championship, slated to be held July 2-12 in New Zealand.Following preliminary round play the top two teams in each group advance to the July 17 medal round semifinals and the gold medal game will be contested at 8:00 p.m. on July 18.
