{"id":108974,"date":"2025-08-25T13:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/108974\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:55:06","slug":"santiago-vescovi-shines-as-uruguay-upsets-united-states-in-fiba-americup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/108974\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago Vescovi Shines As Uruguay Upsets United States In FIBA AmeriCup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Santiago-Vescovi-\u2014-Uruguay.png\"><\/p>\n<p><img data-no-lazy=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Santiago-Vescovi-\u2014-Uruguay.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"745\" height=\"483\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>Photo via FIBA AmeriCup<\/p>\n<p>Uruguay basketball handed the United States a shocking 86-85 defeat in the FIBA AmeriCup pool play games Sunday night in Nicaragua. And there was a former Tennessee Vol star right in the middle of it.<\/p>\n<p>Former Vol shooting guard Santiagio Vescovi scored a game-high 24 points on four-of-seven shooting from three-point range. Vescovi also added five assists and two rebounds coming off the bench on his way to earning player of the game honors.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddfe Santiago Vescovi scores 24 to lead Uruguay to victory over USA and earns <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TCL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TCL<\/a> Player of the Game! \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AmeriCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#AmeriCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wzuNj7kSPJ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/wzuNj7kSPJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIBA AmeriCup (@AmeriCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmeriCup\/status\/1959865676505440261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States roster does not include the best players in the country by any means. In fact, most are G League or end of bench NBA players. There are some former college basketball stars on the roster like LSU\u2019s Javonte Smart, Saint Joe\u2019s Langston Galloway and Notre Dame\u2019s Jerian Grant. Ironically, Vescovi faced off against Smart in his first ever game at Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the United States were significant favorites in the game and it marked Uruguay\u2019s first win over the USA in a competitive event since the 2001 FIBA AmeriCup.<\/p>\n<p>More From RTI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockytopinsider.com\/2025\/08\/23\/tennessee-basketball-coach-justin-gainey-teases-jumbo-sized-lineup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tennessee Basketball Coach Teases \u2018Jumbo-Sized\u2019 Lineup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The win moved both teams to 1-1 during the pool play portion of the tournament. Brazil knocked off Uruguay 81-76 on Saturday as Vescovi totaled nine points, six rebounds and three assists off the bench. Uruguay concludes pool play against the Bahamas Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Vescovi played five seasons at Tennessee from 2020-2024. A starter for all five seasons, Vescovi finished his career averaging 10.3 points, four rebounds and three assists per game. The left-handed shooting guard\u2019s two best seasons were in his junior and senior campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>The Montevideo native averaged 13.3 points per game on 40% three-point shooting in 2021-22 before averaging 12.5 points on 37% three-point shooting in 2022-23. Vescovi earned First Team All-SEC honors in both seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Vescovi was apart of one of the best stretches in program history. During his five year career, Tennessee won the SEC Regular-Season (2024)\u00a0 and Tournament Championship (2022) with trips to the Sweet 16 (2023) and another to the Elite Eight (2024).<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo via FIBA AmeriCup Uruguay basketball handed the United States a shocking 86-85 defeat in the FIBA AmeriCup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,71664,398,400,401,71665,99,17962,71666],"class_list":["post-108974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-fiba-americup","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-santiago-vescovi","tag-sports","tag-tennessee-basketball","tag-uruguay-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}