Quarterfinal Results and Semifinal Games

The Iranian wheelchair basketball team did, in fact, remove itself from the competition and did not play the USA team in the quarterfinal round.  No team was used as a replacement for Iran, so the USA received a win in the quarterfinals by default; the game goes in the books as USA 20, Iran 0.  The USA advances to the semifinals, and is assured of playing for a medal.

 

In other quarterfinal action, Canada defeated Israel by a score of 55-47.  Canada advances to the semifinals to play the USA on Sunday, September 14 at 7:00pm Beijing Time (Sunday, September 14 at 6:00am, Central Time / 4:00am, Pacific Time).  It is possible that the game will be web cast at www.universalsports.com ; we will post any information that we get on a web cast as soon as we hear.  

 

In the third quarterfinal game, Australia defeated Japan by a score of 72-52; Australia moves on to the semifinals to play the winner of the Germany – Great Britain game (still in progress at the time of this post).

 

The medal games will be played on Tuesday, September 16 with the winners of the two semifinal games playing for the gold medal and the other two teams playing for the bronze.