Sports University Conquers Iceland

Sports University has returned back to the United States after a successful campaign in Iceland against the finest Youth Basketball Teams Iceland has to offer April 17-23.
Upon there arrival in Iceland on April 17th they were escorted by Ken Webb Head Coach of the Skallagrimur Express to Borganes Iceland which would be the primary location for the 1st annual tournament. As a tune-up game we played a team from Reykjavik the Capital of Iceland. This team called FJOINIR was comprised of 19 and 20yr olds. It was an excellent tune-up for us with us beating them by a final score of 81-77 Kyrie Irving set the tone for things to come with 29 points and John Caprio chipped in with 14. On Saturday we started the official tourney.
We knew it was important to pace our selves with 3 games in front of us for the day. Our 1st game of the tournament was against the 18 yr olds of the FJOINIR team once again our leading scorer was Kyrie Irving with 28 pts and Angelo Mangiro the 6”4 280 man-child chipping in 16 points for a 72-66 win. Our 2nd game of the day was against Tindasoll John Caprio of Seton Hall Prep led the way with 17 points and Lucky Jones of St Anthony providing supports with 12 pts for a 65-52 victory. Our 3rd game of the day was against the home team Skallagrimur John Caprio of SHP was brillant hitting key baskets in a 12-0 unanswered point run by Sports U for a 69-49 romp.
On Sunday we played the playoff round we started with Tindasoll we felt it was best to rest most of our starters for the Championship game later in the day and other players really stepped up Keir Gist led the way with 18 pts and Chris Cafiero set the pace at point guard with 13 pts. The Championship game was all Sports U. Kyrie Irving went ballistic with 35 pts, Chris Compass dominated inside with 22pts and an alley opp off the backboard pass form Kyrie Irving that literally sent the fans into a state of delirium.
This experience was unbelievable to all of us. The natural beauty of Iceland is breathtaking. The people are warm and open. They treated us like Kings. Next years tournament promises to be even bigger with teams coming in from all over Europe . Darryl Dawkins and Ed Bright meet with City Officials Mayor, town manger etc and they ecstatic about how the participation of everyone, sponsors, fans and teams had far exceeded everyone’s expectations.

Sports University wants to also take the time to thank their sponsors. Old Dominion Mortgage, Jacks Sunoco, James Martin of Dream Illusions, Ceasar of CJC Cleaning, Alan Landis of the Landis Group, Scott Sanders a great friend, Roger Lokker from Sundial, Michael and Brian owners and management of Sports University and our great friend Thomas Mangano