Tommaso Oxilia Explained

Tommaso Oxilia
Position:Shooting guard / small forward
Height Ft:6
Height In:6
Weight Lb:190
League:Serie A2 Basket
Team:Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna
Birth Date:22 April 1998
Birth Place:Pietra Ligure, Italy
Nationality:Italian
Career Start:2013
Years1:2013–present
Team1:Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna

Tommaso Oxilia (born April 22, 1998) is an Italian professional basketball player for Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna.

Professional 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.

National team career

Oxilia competed with Italy's junior national team at the under-16 European Championship in 2014, and he won a bronze medal with the Italian under-18 national team at the 2016 U18 European Championship.

In July 2017, he was influential in helping Italy;s junior national team win a silver medal at the FIBA U19 World Cup in Egypt, while leading the team in scoring (12.9 points per game) and rebounding (8.0 rebounds per game) throughout the tournament. He was named to the tournament's All-Star-Five.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Basket: il loanese Tommaso Oxilia approda alla Virtus Bologna - IVG.it. 2013-09-11. IVG.it - Le notizie dalla provincia di Savona. 2017-07-10. it-IT.
  2. News: Tommaso Oxilia Basketball Player Profile, Virtus Segafredo Bologna, News, Serie A stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards - eurobasket. www.eurobasket.com. 2017-07-10.
  3. Web site: Tommaso Oxilia Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro. www.legapallacanestro.com. it. 2017-07-10.
  4. Web site: Champs Barrett and Kigab head All-Star Five. https://web.archive.org/web/20170917085301/http://www.fiba.basketball/world/u19/2017/news/champs-barrett-and-kigab-head-all-star-five. live. September 17, 2017. FIBA.basketball. en. 2017-07-10.