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Bo Ryan and USA Basketball down South Korea
Posted: Jul 04, 2009

From USA Basketball:

In a well-balanced team effort that saw all 12 players score, including seven in double digits, the 2009 USA Men's World University Games Team (2-0) out-gunned South Korea (0-2) 113-76 on the Fourth of July in Belgrade, Serbia.

The U.S. advances to the second round, where it will face Greece (1-1), which finished second in Group A, on July 6 (2:00 p.m. EDT), and Group A first place finisher Serbia (2-0) on July 7 (2:00 p.m. EDT). Finland (1-1) also advanced to Group I second round action.

James Anderson (Oklahoma State / Junction City, Ark.) and Quincy Pondexter (Washington / Fresno, Calif.) led the USA with 14 points apiece; Talor Battle (Penn State / Albany, N.Y.), Lazar Hayward (Marquette / Buffalo, N.Y.) and Deon Thompson (North Carolina / Torrance, Calif.) contributed 12 points each; while Trevor Booker (Clemson / Whitmire, S.C.) and Jarvis Varnado (Mississippi State / Brownsville, Tenn.) added 11 points apiece. Evan Turner (Ohio State / Chicago, Ill.) grabbed a team-best nine rebounds in the USA's dominant performance on the glass that saw the red, white and blue outrebound South Korea 62-21.

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