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Message: [QUOTE="YKCornelius, post: 4664789, member: 9864"] Awhom111, the "struggle against Mongolia" as you phrased it, had nothing to do with their finishing in second place in their pool, since they scored 21 points in that game. The criteria for standings in FIBA 3x3 is (a) most wins (highest win percentage); (b) head-to-head; (c) most points scored in average; (d) highest seed. Canada won the three-way tie (with the USA and Czech Rep) because they finished with one more total point than the USA (and 10 more than the CR) after four games. In other words, tie-breaking criteria (c). Sure, if the USA scored two points on the last play of the game against Mongolia, they would have ended up even with Canada, and therefore "earned" the top spot in their pool due to their higher seeding. If you want to assign causation to their second place pool finish, then it would be more appropriate to look at the first day and their 16-13 loss to our neighbors up north. [/QUOTE]