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South American Championship 2008 - rikhardur - Jun 25, 2008

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[url="http://www.fibaamericas.com/torneos1_us.asp?t=QJGXOQNXNE"]http://www.fibaamericas.com/torneos1_us.asp?t=QJGXOQNXNE[/url]





Colombia Venezuela Chile Uruguay Argentina Brazil[/center]


Day 1 results - rikhardur - Jul 2, 2008

No surprises <!-- s:cool: -->[img]{SMILIES_PATH}/coolio.gif[/img]<!-- s:cool: -->



[url="http://http"]Brazil 83 Colombia 75[/url]

[url="http://http"]Argentina 79 Venezuela 77[/url]

[url="http://http"]Chile 66 Uruguay 81[/url]



Day 2 results - rikhardur - Jul 4, 2008

[url="http://http"]Argentina 104 Colombia 75[/url]

[url="http://http"]Brazil 70 Chile 69[/url]

[url="http://http"]Venezuela 70 Uruguay 88[/url]



Day 3 results - rikhardur - Jul 4, 2008

Brazil is looking really bad...



[url="http://http"]Uruguay 88 Colombia 78[/url]

[url="http://http"]Brazil 68 Argentina 102[/url]

[url="http://http"]Chile 76 Venezuela 94[/url]



Day 4 results - rikhardur - Jul 6, 2008

[url="http://http"]Uruguay 102 Argentina 93[/url]

[url="http://http"]Brazil 94 Venezuela 84[/url]

[url="http://http"]Chile 68 Colombia 71[/url]



Day 5 results - rikhardur - Jul 6, 2008

[url="http://http"]Colombia 75 Venezuela 82[/url]

[url="http://http"]Chile 70 Argentina 87[/url]

[url="http://http"]Brazil 86 Uruguay 77[/url]



- rikhardur - Jul 7, 2008

Day 6 results (gold medal game):



[url="http://http"]Brazil 72 Venezuela 87[/url]

[url="http://http"]Argentina 100 Uruguay 95[/url]




Argentina champion! Congrats!



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Final standings:



1 - Argentina*

2 - Uruguay*

3 - Venezuela*

4 - Brazil*

5 - Colombia

6 - Chile



* Qualified for FIBA Americas 2009


- TalkBasket - Jul 7, 2008

How do they chose players for South American Championship? I checked rosters and couldn't see any familiar names. My guess is that players that play in domestic leagues are called up <!-- sBlink -->[img]{SMILIES_PATH}/blink.gif[/img]<!-- sBlink -->


- rikhardur - Jul 7, 2008

[quote name='"Vilius":25irxad8']How do they chose players for South American Championship? I checked rosters and couldn't see any familiar names. My guess is that players that play in domestic leagues are called up <!-- sBlink -->[img]{SMILIES_PATH}/blink.gif[/img]<!-- sBlink -->[/quote]

I'm not really sure, but it could be that or B squads in the case of the strongest teams (Brazil, Argentina, etc).