World Championship moves to knockout stages
Thursday, 02-Sep-2010
After a week of action the FIBA World Championship for Men moves into the knockout stages this weekend.
The initial 24 teams have been whittled down to 16 after five group games each and from now on in it is win or go home as the top teams in the world battle it out for the Naismith Trophy. USA, Lithuania and hosts Turkey all topped their groups with unbeaten records, whilst China only managed 1 group win, but qualified for the knockout stages thanks to winning a three-way tie-breaker with Puerto Rico and Ivory Coast.
The full draw for the last 16 is as follows -
Serbia v Croatia
Spain v Greece
Turkey v France
Slovenia v Australia
USA v Angola
Russia v New Zealand
Lithuania v China
Argentina v Brazil