Former Kansas point guard Frank Mason scored six points, grabbed three rebounds and dished two assists while starting and playing 18 minutes in Team USA’s 78-48 victory over Panama in an FIBA Americas World Cup qualifying game on Monday night in Panama.
Mason, a second-year member of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, hit 2 of 4 shots and was 2 of 2 from the free-throw line. He had scored a team-leading 16 points on 7-of-8 shooting with a team-best eight assists and two rebounds in Team USA’s 114-57 victory over Uruguay on Friday night in Las Vegas.
“This was my first experience playing FIBA basketball.