<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The American men advanced to the title game, getting 20 points each from Villanova's Randy Foye and Duke's Shelden Williams in a 120-80 rout of Russia. The U.S. men will play for the championship Sunday against Ukraine, which rallied past Serbia-Montenegro 69-63.</div> Full Story
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Smith leads U.S. men to hoops gold IZMIR, Turkey (AP) -- Boston College forward Craig Smith scored 16 points Sunday to help the U.S. men's basketball team win the gold medal at the University Games after beating Ukraine 85-70. The win gave the Americans their 13th basketball gold at the games since 1965, and their first title since 1999. The U.S. women won the gold Friday. "We take the responsibility of representing United States basketball very seriously," U.S. coach Jay Wright said. "You realize the enormity of who you are representing -- the best players in the world, the best coaches in the world -- and you just want to do it justice." Duke's Shelden Williams added 15 points and 14 rebounds for the Americans. "Hopefully at the end of my senior year things will work out," Williams said of the NBA. "But life is tough, nothing is guaranteed."</div> Full Story
Good to see Foye and Smith contributing even before the NCAA season begins. Those two, along with their respective sidekicks Allan Ray and Jared Dudley, are my favorite players in all of basketball. Well.. maybe besides Manu.
