By: Tess Fox - Staff Writer
Idaho men's basketball player Arkadiy Mkrtychyan spent his summer traveling, visiting family and eating plenty of his mother's soup.
Mkrtychyan did this while playing for Team Armenia in the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 European Pre-Qualifiers.
"It was amazing," he said. "It was a great experience to play against pros for a national team. I played with guys like Ryan Boatright, Andrew Chrabascz and Luke Fisher from Marquette."
Armenia is a mountainous nation, formerly part of the USSR, bordered by Turkey to the west, Azerbaijan to the east and Iran to the south.