Scola No. 2 scorer in World cup basketball
Argentina’s 39-year-old Luis Scola climbed to the No. 2 spot on basketball’s World Cup all-time scoring list on Monday, his 23 points and 10 rebounds helping Argentina hold off 0-2 Nigeria 94-81 in a Group B game at Wuhan, China, to clinch a berth in the second round.
Scola is up to 611 points in his World Cup career, passing Australia’s Andrew Gaze’s total of 594, and is now second only to Brazil’s Oscar Schmidt’s 906 points in the tournament.
Argentina improved to 2-0.
Italy outscored 0-2 Angola 36-6 from 3-point range, improving to 2-0 in Group D with a 92-61 victory; Heissler Guillent scored 28 points as Venezuela (1-1) beat 0-2 Ivory Coast 87-71 in Group A; Tunisia (1-1) beat 0-2 Iran 79-67, bouncing back from a blowout loss to Spain in its Group C opener; In Group D, Serbia shot 75% and thrashed the Philippines 126-67 to advance to Round 2; Mateusz Ponitka scored 25 points and A.J. Slaughter added 22 as Poland (2-0) upset host China (1-1) in overtime, 79-76; Marc Gasol scored 19 points and Ricky Rubio had 17 as Spain (2-0) beat Puerto Rico (1-1) 73-63 in Group C; Russia moved to 2-0 in Group B and clinched a second-round berth with an 87-73 win over 0-2 South Korea.
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