USA 113: Brazil 76
What was supposed to be the United State’s toughest test turned into another blowout. Team USA continued their dominance of group B by manhandling Brazil last night 113-76.

Brazil did hang tough for about one quarter and a half, but was eventually overwhelmed by Team USA’s offensive prowess and fantastic defense. The Americans would expand their lead to as large as 49 points, while keeping tournament leading scorer Leandro Barbosa from getting any type of rhythm. Barbosa shot 1-8 from the field and scored well below his tournament average of 27. Carmelo Anthony again led the US in scoring with 21. And that was matched by LeBron James. Kobe Bryant added 20 and played a large part in suffocating Barbosa. Tiago Splitter led the Team Brazi with 13 points.  However, it wasn’t all smiles for the Americans as their leading rebounder Tayshaun Prince went down with an ankle injury in the second quarter.

Argentina 109: Panama 92 (Overtime)
It was experience vs. novice when Argentina found themselves down 7 points with just over two minutes to play and Panama primed for the upset. The Argentines made a furious comeback thanks to consecutive miscues on Panama’s end, eventually tying the game and sending the game into overtime. Panama looked deflated and the experienced Argentinians took over from there, going on a 41-15 run the last 9 minutes of the game and overtime. Paolo Quinteros led Argentina with 22 points. Luis Scola added 20, Carlos Delfino 19 and Diego Loggripo 15. Gary Forbes, who plays for Massachusetts, had 29 points for Panama

Uruguay 91: Mexico 82
Uruguay continued their great play in finishing up the first round with a 3-1 record. This time they used a tournament-record eight three-pointers (8-13) and 36 points from Nicolas Mazzarino in defeating Mexico 91-82. Odd that Esteban Batista‘s 25 points and 15 rebounds performance would have to take a backseat. It was Batista that would once again give Uruguay the lead for good when he hit a free throw with 5:31 left to give Uruguay a 72-71 lead. Mexico didn’t do itself any favors by missing six of 10 free throws over the final 3:26. Romel Beck led the Mexican National Team with 28 points. Uruguay will face Canada to start out the second round Monday.

Venezuela 100: US Virgin Islands 90
It was a contest of the two 0-3 teams. Venezuela squeezed into the second round by defeating the Virgin Islands. Hector Romero scored 29 points and Manuel Barrios added 18 for Venezuela.