Serbia, Georgia, and Brazil advanced to the second round of basketball's World Cup with victories on Wednesday.
Serbia defeated South Sudan 115-83 helped by 25 points from 20-year-old Nikola Jovic. Georgia topped Venezuela 70-59 behind 25 points from Tornike Shengelia, and Brazil beat Ivory Coast 89-77 with Yago Santos scoring 24 points and adding 12 assists
Ten teams had already advanced going into Wednesday's games: The Dominican Republic, Australia, Italy, Spain, the United States, Canada, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, and Montenegro.At Manila, Jovic shot 9 of 9 from the floor as Serbia beat South Sudan to reach the round of 16. Bogdan Bogdanovic added 23 points and nine assists.
Peter Jok scored 21 points for South Sudan but Chicago Bulls guard Carlik Jones had just three points in 22 minutes.At Okinawa, Shengelia scored 25 points and Goga Bitadze had 11 points and 11 rebounds as Georgia advanced to the second round.
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