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USA Basketball less than golden

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 3, 2003

Good vibes flowed out of Puerto Rico last week, as USA Basketball took home the gold medal at the Tournament of Americas. But, as the NBA-stocked squad celebrated qualifying for the Olympic Games, similar success didn't trickle down to college kids wearing red, white and blue this summer. And the country's other U.S. squads suffering in places like Greece and the Dominican Republic can't be overlooked. The junior national teams' failure to medal in July at the World Junior Championships and t ...

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