U.S. rolls past Italy 100-63 to advance to FIBA World Cup semi-finals

The win ensures the 15th top-four finish for the Americans in 19 World Cups

The United States is headed to the medal round of the Basketball World Cup, bouncing back from its first loss of the tournament in emphatic fashion.

The win ensures the 15th top-four finish for the Americans in 19 World Cups. They will play either Germany or Latvia in Friday’s semi-finals; those two teams play their quarter-final game in Manila on Wednesday. His heroics weren’t needed. Not much on the offensive end was. The defence – which was shredded for 110 points in a six-point loss to Lithuania on Sunday – held Italy to 6 of 31 shooting over the final 15 minutes of the first half. Lithuania started 9 for 9 from 3-point range vs. the U.S.; Italy started 2 for 21 on Tuesday.It was the quarter-final round where it all went wrong for the U.S. at the World Cup four years ago in China.

Italy had beaten the U.S. only twice in 14 previous tries at the senior men’s national level, both times at the world championships – which FIBA now calls the World Cup. The first was in 1970 on the way to a fifth-place finish for the U.S. The second was in 1978, in Manila no less, a defeat that helped relegate the Americans to a fifth-place finish that year as well.

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