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Souhtern Utah beats the Australian Cairns Dolphins 81-65,
they play again Tuesday......
they play again Tuesday......
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Southern Utah has THREE Australians on their team - so this tour is kinda payback for those guys and will work as a future recruiting tool if they want to keep landing the Aussies...
A D-II school from Minnesota, Saint John's University (not the one in New York) is currently in Italy -- they won their first game then lost their 2nd game which was played against a U19 group (mostly 18-19 year olds!)
Here's a real weirdo thing....St. John's took almost their ENTIRE 24-man roster to Italy and all of them are playing in these games!!
(yes, that's correct, they list 24 players on their basketball roster and 20 are on the tour)
Also - Kentucky just announced they are going to Canada this summer
(btw- note the article also says UK's athletic dept. budget is almost $80 million - more than 25 times BU's budget - and they're gonna have to consider raising ticket prices. it also talks of building a NEW arena in downtown Lexington!)
and Bucknell leaves in a little over a week to go to Italy
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Southern Utah lost their next two games in Australia, then won their final game to finsih their tour 2-2 against the Aussies...
Here's their final results..
W - Southern Utah 81 - Australian Cairns Dolphins 65
L - Townsville McDonalds Heat 75 - Southern Utah 71
L - Southern District Spartans 106 - Southern Utah 84
W - Southern Utah 84 - Brisbane Capitols 44
A touring team of US college players are currently in China playing for Sports Reach and they won their first game vs. the Bayi Rockets 87-75.
SIU's Carlton Fay had 2 pts, 7 rebs, while NIU's Sean Kowal had 6, Xavier Silas 9.
The St. John's team mentioned above (this is the D-II St. John's from Minnesota) won their first game but then has lost their last two..Comment
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Game 2 in China complete and US loses to Bayi Rockets - few details yet...
but Bayi scored at the buzzer on a banked-in 3-pointer to win 77-76, Jon Hood 13 pts, Josh Harrelson 10.
Carlton Fay just 3 pts.Comment
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game 3 in China for the touring Sports Reach team is also a loss, 84-80..so the Americans drop to 1-2, as Carlton Fay scores 6...Comment
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Pepperdine just completed a 10-day tour to Italy, going 3-1 --
Pepperdine lost its first game to Romana Basket Anagni, 90-83, but came back to win three straight games over CUS Siena, 92-53, Texa Roncado, 87-71 and Sangiorgese Basket, 82-76...all are lower division Italian pro teams who are not playing with full rosters due to being off-season...
One Pepperdine player, Keion Bell, averaged over 23 ppg!Comment
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The Sports Reach team has now played 5 games in China and is 3-2 after a narrow 78-77 win in Shizu, China...
Carlton Fay had just 4 pts & 2 rebs in this 5th game to bring his averages over the five games to 4.8 ppg, 5.2 rpg....
Here's a pic of CFay making a basket in yesterday's game..
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In the sixth game in China, the US team (Sports Reach) loses 88-81...to even them up at 3-3, with a deciding 7th game coming up..
In game 6, Carlton Fay got the US team off to a great start, scoring 7 points early to help the US take a 9-2 lead...
but later in the 2nd half, the US fell behind by 14 and couldn't close the gap..
Final totals showed Carlton Fay hitting 4-7 & 2-3 from beyond the arc for 11 pts, 5 rebs..
Josh Harrellson of Kentucky who was once a WIU commit and now rides the pines behind guys like DeMarcus Cousins & Daniel Orton at UK...had 17 pts, and 17 rebounds.
The two NIU guys, Xavier Silas (scoreless) and Sean Kowal (2 pts) continued cold, while Tennessee walk on Skylar McBee (14 pts) and Louisville PG Peyton Siva 13 pts) had good games.
The US outrebounded the Chinese 45-30 and the Chinese had a horrible day at the FT line (going only 16-35!) but the Chinese's 56% shooting from the field was way better than the Americans' 40.5% from the field.
Bucknell leaves today for 4 games in Italy..one of the teams they are scheduled to play is Reyer Venezia, which has Kiwane Garris, and ex-IlliniComment
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the 7th game of their tour is in the books, and the US squad wins convincingly, 97-62
Carlton Fay had 10 points in the first quarter, and ended with 10 pts, 2 rebs...
Fay's averages were 6.4 ppg, 4.9 rpg for the 7 games...Comment
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A couple Missouri State players are going on tour...
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Carlton Fay's team has now played a Russian team that's also on tour in China,
and won 98-78..
Fay had his best game by far, scoring 21 pts, 6 rebs...Comment
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Bucknell plays four games in Italy over a 10-day span..
their first game was a huge blowout win, 78-41 over Virtus Basket Aprilia.This opponent is described as a C-Division team (the 4th level in Italy - roughly on par with high school teams at the "Y") that is very small,
as you can see, in Italy alone there are 96 different "C-Division" teams...so his one doesn't sound like much competition even for Bucknell.
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Joesph Bertrand will be playing PG for the team coached by the MSU assistant! A 6' 5" PG would be nice.Comment
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Bucknell wins game 2 in come-from-behind fashion, in Italy -- 82-68..
they play again TuesdayComment
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