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4 games on tap for tomorrow Expect both Group A games Spain vs Greece & Canada vs Australia to be good ones. Can only hope for close games on the Group B matches. France vs Japan & Germany vs Brazil.

USA wins rematch of Gold Medal game from 4 years ago beating Japan 102-76

Nigeria shakes up Group B takes down Australia 75-62 ! Breaks a 20 year drought for Nigeria

That was two really close games in Group A. Serbia wins by 3 and Spain wins by 1 in overtime.

We should have at least 3 good games today. Australia vs Spain Germany vs Japan France vs Brazil Greece vs Canada

Congrats to Puerto Rico you earned it

Group A at the Olympics is going to be one tough group. Australia, Canada, Greece, Spain.

I think we will have 3 real good games tomorrow.. Suspect the 4th will be a blowout.

Good effort from Finland but in the last 4 minutes with the scored tied 72-72 they only got two free throws for 2 points. Missed every shot from the field.

4 for 4 for the group winners so far.

8 more games today. Looking forward to it.

I put all the Group winners on the left and the group 2nd place finishers on the right. Since we have a off day which 2nd place finishers do you think will win their semi-final match ? Spain Spain 2-0 vs Finland 1-1 Bahamas 2-0 vs Lebanon 1-1 Greece Croatia 1-1 vs Dominican Republic 1-1 Greece 2-0 vs Slovenia 1-1 Latvia Latvia 1-1 vs Cameroon 1-1 Brazil 1-1 vs Philippines 1-1 Puerto Rico Lithuania 2-0 vs Italy 1-1 Puerto Rico 2-0 vs Mexico 1-1

Looking forward to the Mexico vs Cote d'Ivoire game.. Both teams played decent against Lithuania, Interested to see who advances

Finland 89 Poland 88....I thought Poland was going to win.

Another upset brewing. Cote d'Ivoire leads Lithuania by 7 heading to the 4th... These games are getting wild.

This has been very competitive this year. Couple of real surprises. Also some underdogs putting up a good fight even if they lose.

Thanks guys. That sure makes that Latvia Group B wacky. Brazil +9 Cameroon -4 Montenegro -5.. So if Cameroon upset Brazil by 1 point they would knock Montenegro out. If they somehow won by 7 they would finish first !

If Slovenia were to defeat New Zealand tomorrow thus all 3 would be 1-1 how is 1st and 2nd decided ? Is it purely by point differential ?

We will know much more on June 27. The state of Arizona is selling 110 acres of land just outside of the city limits of Phoenix on the 27th . Its not in any city so community issues don't exist. As of this moment the Coyotes are the only bidder. The NHL did not want to wait for the stadium build which will take a couple years. So we will see what occurs.

There is much more to this story... Arizona Coyotes will be sold to NHL for 1 billion. Then NHL will sell to Salt Lake for 1.2 billion. IF the Coyotes complete their new stadium within the next 5 years they will be immediately granted a expansion franchise along with one other city.

I am looking forward to Great Britain vs Japan both Round 3 winners playing each other. Should be a fun game

Good that Belarus is out. Russia gets another year in the iffy Olympics. I suspect the replacement will be Hungary. They are the highest ranked.

If you hear anything about the results from this meeting would you post it here ! In the USA they rarely give any info on the IIHF. Thanks in advance

I think 2 other possible options are where only one team is needed 1) They could kick Belarus out of the Olympics because they have to make that decision now but leave Russia in the iffy position because the Olympics are not till 2026 ! Then make the final decision on Russia in the Olympics at a later date. 2) They could do what FIBA always does. Kick both out but add only one team. Then say the three winners plus the highest ranking non-winner advances to the Olympics. Basically saying Slovakia you have to play the 3 games but your in anyway.

Do you still think we will find out about Belarus this coming week at the meetings ? I would guess if Belarus is out then I suspect Hungary would replace them ( might have been Poland but now that they lost again i assume Poland is out)