August 29, 2010 in News
Youth Olympic Games basketball results
Better late than never… here’s a quick roundup of the Youth Olympic Games basketball results that finished recently.
Girls
Final standings:
August 19, 2010 in News
The YOG basketball tournament group stages have come to an end after day 5. Eight boys teams and eight girls teams now go forward to play in the quarter finals.
The Philippines beat South Africa 26-12 to seal SA’s boys’ fate as SA bowed out of the tournament with a won-lost record of 0-4.
The teams that will be progressing are:
August 18, 2010 in News
South Africa was selected to participate along with 19 other countries, both developing and developed. With SA being drawn in Group D along with the Phillipines, Croatia, the US Virgin Islands and Spain (their senior team is current men’s FIBA world champions), it was never going to be easy.
Progress so far
August 18, 2010 in News
The Youth Olympic Games are underway, and if reports are to be believed, the rollout of the new FIBA 33 format basketball tournament has been one of the highlights so far.
From Tom Degun’s article on insidethegames.biz:
“While the majority of the sports at these Youth Olympics are no different in structure to their counterparts at the senior Olympic Games, basketball has decided to be different.
April 28, 2010 in Development
"ready" by threecee, via flickr
I know you know how important youth basketball is since you’ve grown up playing the game. But even someone who doesn’t play can work it out if they have half a brain.
By youth, I am referring both to the real youngsters who struggle to get the ball up into a regulation hoop, as well as teenagers who play the game on full-size courts.
