2017 World University Games

[carlo]

Portugal women's team:

http://www.fpb.pt/fpb2014/!site.go?s=1&show=not&id=106747

Costa and Umabano played in July at the U20 EC, averaging 8.3 and 8.7 ppg.

[carlo]

Sweden women's roster:

Matilda Claesson 170 1994
Nathalie Fontaine 183 1993 - Ball St (2016)
Elin Gustavsson 187 1993 - Colorado St (2017)
Mikaela Gustavsson 187 1993 - Maine (2016)
Gabriella Hanson 180 1995 - Oregon St (2017)
Paulina Hersler 190 1994 - UCLA (2017)
Sofia Hägg 169 1997
Anna Lundquist 175 1996 - Siena (2020)
Moa Lundqvist 183 1995 - Odessa JC (2017), USF (2020)
Ellen Nyström 183 1993 - Colorado St (2017)
Elsa Paulsson 181 1995 - Salt Lake CC (2015)

Fontaine, Nystrom and E. Gustavsson led their NCAA teams in scoring, Hanson too had a respectable college career.
Claesson averaged nearly 10 ppg at the 2014 U20 EC, Hägg is the youngest and played at the 2017 U20 EC.

[carlo]

Russia teams:

Men's
Daniil Aksenov, G 22 183cm
Vyacheslav Brykin, G 22 196
Sergey Mitusov, G 20 193
Aleksandr Platunov, G 20 193
Ruslan Abdulbasirov, Fw 23 208
Ilya Aginskikh, Fw 23 204
Andrey Bakulchuk, Fw 21 200
Yaroslav Gureev, Fw 22 200
Dmitry Popov, Fw 21 204
Dmitry Semenas, Fw 22 194
Kirill Arkhipov, C 21 201
Aleksandr Kurbatov, C 19 208

Women's
Mariya Panfilova, G 19 177 cm
Lidiya Petina, G 24 168
Ekaterina Ryabova, G 22 181
Ekaterina Safonova, G 21 166
Yuliya Chajkovskaya, G 22 174
Svetlana Bojkova, Fw 21 184
Elizaveta Bratchikova, Fw 21 190
Natalya Bukur, Fw 23 181
Yuliya Gladkova, Fw 23 183
Viktoriya Ivanova, Fw 23 182
Aleksandra Varaksina, C 23 190
Kseniya Kuzmina, C 21 200

[carlo]

USA women (aka University of Maryland) lost a friendly with Chinese Taipei 83-73. Brianna Fraser and Kaila Charles led USA with 20 and 12 pts.
From low quality streaming clips it appears that US team defense struggled against outside shooting from the hosts.
Chinese Taipei usually sends competitive teams to WUG, but Maryland squad has considerably weakened since losing its two top players to the pros.

[carlo]

USA/Maryland women bounced back from yesterday loss winning their second scrimmage, 78-72 over Australia. The American team led from early in the game and was up 37-33 at ht, leading 65-54 after Q3. Fraser again topped the Terps with 23 points, followed by Ieshia Small with 12, Tori Jankoska 10 and freshman Channise Lewis with 9.

http://umterps.com/fls/29700/wug/

[carlo]

Poland womens team:

Sylwia Bujniak, SG
Beata Jaworska, PF
Daria Marciniak, PF
Monika Naczk, PG
Jowita Ossowska, SF
Magdalena Pisera, SF
Karolina Pobozy, PF
Kamila Podgorna, SG
Amalia Rembiszewska, C
Zuzanna Sklepowicz, PG
Agata Stepien, PG
Magdalena Szajtauer, C

All domestic players, Bujniak, Pobozy, Podgorna ans Szajtauer have arleardy appeared in the Sr NT, as well as in various U20 teams, together with Marciniak and Rembiszewska.

[JGX]

Purdue/USA beat Norway 81-49, winning the first quarter 25-4 and third quarter 39-13:

https://purdue.rivals.com/news/purdue-rolls-over-norway-in-world-university-games-scrimmage

[carlo]

Hungary rosters:

Men
Kristof Bognar
Ivan Bus
Akos Garamvölgyi
Ivan Keller
Adam Kovács
Tamas Kósa
Mark Kővágó-Laska
Balazs Peringer
Laszlo Polyák
Zoltan Toth
Akos Vagvölgyi
Adam Wirth

Best should be Bognar (Sr NT). He and Garamvölgyi, Keller, Kővágó-Laska and Peringer have competed in various U20 EC teams.

Women
Judit Barnai
Agota Gocsman
Janka Hegedűs
Palma Kaposi
Julianna Karlócai
Diana Miháczi
Regina Pap
Vivien Raus
Aniko Simon
Fanni Szabó
Reka Szűcs
Szonja Vukov

Barnai, Kaposi, Pap, Raus, Simon, Szabó and Vukov have been members of past U20 EC teams. Somewhat known is Fanni Szabó, a 6-1 G/F who averaged 10 ppg at Dartmouth last season as a senior, while Kaposi has played two seasons at Minnesota, same as Vukov at Highland CC.

[Dreamcatcher]

Any streamings? No youtube i guess?

[carlo]

Any streamings? No youtube i guess?

Something should be available here:

https://livestream.com/fisu

[tmlouk]

Who is able to gave a preview on the 1st Day Matches? Would be great!

[carlo]

Just noticed on the official site that Argentina women will be led by Melisa Gretter who starred at the recent Fiba Americup with the Sr NT (23 pts in the final). She will be joined by:
Sofia Aispurua
Micaela Sancisi
Naimi Larriestra
Luciana Delabarba
Maria Garcia
Julieta Armesto
Julieta Mungo
Julieta Ale
Ornela Pag
Mayra Leiva

Several players have competed with junior NT.

Men's roster:
Matias Borsatti
Martin Fernandez
Ariel Ramos
Ayan De Carvalho
Erick Thomas
Rodrigo Gerhard
Matias Solanas
Ignacio Galardo
Carlos Buemo
Jeremias Sandrini

Same as above, several names known from past U17/18/19 teams.
Concerning Thomas, he was 2017 Southland Conference PoY (New Orleans).

[carlo]

Interesting to see how crowded are games even not involving home teams. At today's USA-ARG attendance was over 6,500.

[locdogjr]

Interesting to see how crowded are games even not involving home teams. At today's USA-ARG attendance was over 6,500.

Taiwan loves its basketball!
Although I must admit, while the USA would always draw a crowd, the Taiwan game immediately followed the USA game which resulted in a huge turnout. I got to the stadium at about 3 pm and it was very full even for Germany and HK. Those all day tickets defintiely help the turnout

[carlo]

Game of the day for sure was Australia vs Lithuania in the men's tournament (live streamed). AUS took a solid lead that reached 18 pts in Q3, but was erased by LTU after 5' in the last quarter. Game stayed closed until the end, when Lithuanian team failed to convert the last ball possession and tie the score. Vasiljevic and Cooks best from AUS, Saulys for LTU.
Australia beat Lithuania in the women's tournament as well, but the score resulted more close than expected.