For the Canadians.

The Australian Crocs continue to roll through their opponents at the FIBA World Championships for Young Men in Argentina, defeating Canada 88-71 overnight.

The win is an outstanding result, given that they lost to the Canadians twice in pre-World’s tournaments at the end of July.

It didn’t help the Canadians that their primary outside threat, Andy Rautins (who will be a freshman at Syracuse) went down with a sprained ankle 2 minutes into the game. Canada’s next game is against Argentina.

Canada is technically 1-1 at this point, since it has a forfeit win against Iran. Iran, showing the usual tolerance and feelings of peace towards all, pulled out of the tournament when it found that it not only was in an opening round-robin group that included Israel, but that they would have to play Israel first. The same high-minded feelings that came through in the Athens Olympics when their Greco-Roman champion wrestler forfeited rather than risk losing to Israelis (read, Jews) in the medal round.

As for how Levon Kendall did. He shot pretty well inside the arc going 5-6 (but 5-8 overall with 2 missed 3s) and 8 rebounds, 3 steals and 3 blocked shots in only 26 minutes. The downside was he was limited because he got in foul trouble early (4 fouls for the game) and had a disturbing 8 turnovers.