LC
Years ago

2011 U19 World Championships

The draw for the 2011 U19 World Championships for Men was held overnight in Riga, Latvia.

Australia drew the home nation and Argentina in their preliminary group. The draw looks like this:

Group A: Tunisia, Russia, Brazil, Poland
Group B: Argentina, Taiwan, Australia, Latvia
Group C: Croatia, South Korea, Canada, Lithuania
Group D: USA, Egypt, Serbia and China.

The 10th Edition of the tournament will be held in Latvia from 30 June through 10 July 2011.

The best three teams from each group will advance into the next round and will make up two groups with six teams in each. Best four teams from the groups of the second stage will qualify into the quarterfinals. The USA team are the reigning champions as they defeated Greece in 2009 tournament Final.

How do we think the Aussie youngsters will go? Who will make up our team?

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MACDUB
Years ago

Still not a fan of the FIBA structure (certain number from each region have to qualify). There were better teams at the AST. i know NZ could beat teams like Tunisia, Taiwan and South Korea and Egypt. Furthermore, no Greece, France, Italy, and Germany ( who came 2nd at AST)

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LC
Years ago

Well here is the finishing places for the most recent 2010 U18 European championships:

1. Lithuania
2. Russia
3. Latvia
4. Serbia
5. Croatia
6. Poland
7. France
8. Greece

Agree that Germany were good at the AST but there was no Germany or Italy inside thje top 8, whilst France and Greeece finished behind the other Euro teams which was part of their qualifying.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Trying to qualify out of Europe in Juniors and Seniors is in some ways harder than the Worlds themselves.

There's no weaker opposition like the Egypt or South Korea

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MACDUB
Years ago

Anon, your right about that--Europe is tough to get out of. I believe France, Germany, Italy were without their top players due to pro commitments i.e. No Evan Fournier, Andrea Traini, Alessandro Gentile and Phillip Neumann. All of those players bar Traini are NBA prospects.
Watered down event IMHO.

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LC
Years ago

Europe is always the hardest region to qualify for a World Championship or Olympic event given the depth of competition.

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MACDUB
Years ago

At the end of day at least euro teams can qualify through An actual multi team tournament with 6 spots available.
Poor NZ has to beat Aus twice who are usually top 4 in the world at the under 19 level...

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Anonymous
Years ago

Jackson Aldridge
Mitch Creek
Hugh Greenwood
Igor Hadziomerovic
Anthony Drmic
Corban Wroe
Daniel Trist
Lewis Thomas
Owen Odigie
Andrija Dumovic/Will Sinclair/John Marriot/Lachlan Winter/Nick Kay/Daniel Carlin

From:
Sam Rowley
Mitch Norton
Spehr
Stefan Uzelac

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Anonymous
Years ago

jordan barry from wollongong

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MACDUB
Years ago

Yes because Jordan Barry was great at the AST. played 2mins against Israel and got a tech..

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Anonymous
Years ago

Women anyone?

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Anonymous
Years ago

has the team actually been named?