Good morning! The World university Games officially started yesterday with the Opening Ceremonies. Today the competion begins in earnest of as Purdue plays the first of its 8 games. The first five will be in pool play, with the final three for classification purposes and the Gold medal.
Today we face off agaisnt Argentina, a country that has seen an explosion in basketball’s popularity thanks to Manu Ginobili and the Argentine National Team winning gold at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
Unfortunately, I don’t know anything about this Argentine team. Purdue had to go to overtime against Canada in its second exhibition, but handled Norway quite easily on Friday.