Follow along for live scores and updates from Australia-Lithuania below. After pushing US to their limits last week by losing by just 10, most of Rio is waiting for an eventual rematch for gold.
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Australia made it known from the very beginning that they were here to stay as they went up by 9 at the end of the first and 18 at halftime.
Croatia wasn’t one of the favorites coming into the men’s basketball competition at the Rio Games, yet they finished pool play atop Group B with a 90-81 victory over Lithuania on Monday. Matthew Dellavedova added 15 while Aron Baynes added 16.
Baynes, who averaged 6.3 points and 4.7 rebounds off the bench for the Pistons last season, played extra minutes too after Andrew Bogut ran into foul trouble down the stretch.
See full box score here.
Australia’s Boomers have never won an Olympic men’s basketball medal, losing bronze medal games to the United States in 1988 and to Lithuania in 1996 and 2000 in their best-ever showings.
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The Aussies will face the victor of a later quarter-final between Serbia and Croatia in a Friday semi-final.
