Olympic Basketball Qualifying Tournament

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There's a little bit of Valley flavor in this tourney...

first - Lithuania clobbered the John Calipari coached Dominican Republic yesterday to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics - and Russia qualified as well.
The Dominican Republic plays Nigeria today for the final spot in the Olympics.


Ex-ISU Redbird Champ Oguchi plays for the Nigerian team

http://london2012.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/12/olym/player/p/eid/6232/orderby//ot//pid/54139/rid//sid/6229/tid/340/tid2//profile.html

http://www.africabasket.com/Nigeria/basketball.asp?NewsID=276943

Dinma is not listed with the Nigerian team

Current Creighton Bluejay Greg Echenique is playing for the Venezuelan team

http://london2012.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/12/olym/player/p/eid/6232/orderby//ot//pid/54590/rid//sid/6229/tid/383/tid2//profile.html

Ex-Illini Robert Archibald plays for Great Britain
Ex-Mizzou Linas Kleiza plays for Lithuania
Ex=Saint Louis Billiken Rob Loe plays for New Zealand

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Ex-ISU Redbird Chamberlain Oguchi was injured and did not play in the Nigerians' best game of the tourney - the win over the Dominicans and John Calipari...
due to a shoulder injury...

http://www.talkbasket.net/7067-d-tigers-finally-roaring-nigeria-qualifies-for-olympics.html

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One of the Wichita State Shockers will be going to the Olympics......but not one of the players

Their assistant basketball coach (DBO) Dominic Okon will assist with the Nigerian Olympic team that has Champ Oguchi

http://www.goshockers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205502182&DB_OEM_ID=7500

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Nigeria won their first Olympic basketball game yesterday -
Champ Oguchi played 19 minutes and had one point, Al Faroukh Aminu had 10, Ike Diogu had 13

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Champ Oguchi might be getting an NBA contract

http://www.africabasket.com/Nigeria/basketball.asp?NewsID=288737