By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - The United States and top-ranked Spain opened their FIBA Basketball World Cup campaigns with landslide wins ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSMANILA - The United States and top-ranked Spain opened their FIBA Basketball World Cup campaigns with landslide wins as only one of eight group games was a close-run affair on Saturday.
The Tall Blacks led 14-4 in the first quarter while the United States battled turnovers and missed shots. The top two teams in the eight groups qualify for the last 16, with the bottom two entering the classification rounds.All games on the second day ended with big wins except for a 101-96 overtime victory by Puerto Rico over South Sudan in Manila, highlighting a disparity between European and Americas teams compared with their African and Asian counterparts.
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