Joel Ayayi and Filip Petrusev will face each other in the FIBA U18 European Championships Semi-Finals after France and Serbia both won close contests on Friday morning.
Following Wednesday’s 31-point outburst, Ayayi went out and hit a game winning three with 25 seconds remaining in overtime. France beat Montenegro 76-74. Montenegro was coming off a shocking upset of undefeated Spain and almost pulled off another one. His French teammate at Gonzaga appreciated the heroics.
Before hitting the game-winner, the Gonzaga redshirt freshman struggled a bit with turnovers, but still put up a nice performance. He finished the game with 15 points on 6-11 shooting (2-2 from deep) to go with four assists and seven turnovers in 33 minutes of action.