Tommaso Oxilia
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| Position | Shooting guard / Small forward | ||||||||||||||||||
| League | Serie A2 Basket | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
April 22, 1998 Pietra Ligure, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing career | 2013–present | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 2013–present | Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna | ||||||||||||||||||
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Tommaso Oxilia (born April 22, 1998) is an Italian basketball player for Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna.
High school career
A product of A.S.D. Basket Loano, Oxilia joined the youth ranks of Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna in 2013.[1] He made his debut in Italy’s top flight Lega Basket Serie A during the 2013-14 season.[2] In 2016-17, Oxilia made 29 appearances for Bologna, averaging 3.1 points a contest,[3] helping the squad capture the Serie A2 Basket championship after being relegated from the Serie A the year before.
International career
Oxilia competed for Italy at the under-16 European Championships in 2014 and won bronze with the under-18 national team at the 2016 U18 European Championships.
In July 2017, he was influential in helping Italy capture silver at the FIBA U19 World Cup in Egypt, leading the team in scoring (12.9 ppg) and rebounding (8.0 rpg) throughout the tournament, while earning All-Star-Five honours.[4]
References
- ↑ "Basket: il loanese Tommaso Oxilia approda alla Virtus Bologna - IVG.it". IVG.it - Le notizie dalla provincia di Savona (in Italian). 2013-09-11. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
- ↑ "Tommaso Oxilia Basketball Player Profile, Virtus Segafredo Bologna, News, Serie A stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards - eurobasket". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
- ↑ "Tommaso Oxilia | Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro". www.legapallacanestro.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-07-10.
- ↑ "Champs Barrett and Kigab head All-Star Five". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2017-07-10.