The 18-year-old 1.98-meter forward Pablo Tamba, natural of Genil Bridge, He is now a full-fledged player in the highest division of the United States University Basketball League, the NCAA 1. He freshman, a name given to first-year players from Idaho State, debuted in his team’s 82-61 win over Oregon in a match on the first day of the Big Sky conference.
Although he did not score, he marked a milestone in basketball in the province, since the Pontanese is already the first from Cordoba to reach the highest university category of American university basketball. Tamba played the final 77 seconds of a comfortable game for Idaho, already dominating 43-29 at halftime.
Tamba has become part of one of the teams called to fight for the university crown next March, as it is among the 32 best in the country. In the early hours of Friday to Saturday, Spain will play its second game, this time against Pepperdine.
The Pontanese is a player formed in the beginning in the ranks of the Genil Bridge and the Cordoba city. Later he signed for Unicaja in 2017 with his brother Ismael, now at Zamora de la LEB Plata, then to play the oldest of them in the junior team and Pablo in the cadet. Both were proclaimed European champions in 2019 with the national teams, Ismael with the sub 18 and Pablo with the sub 16, in what was a milestone for both.
The Ohio State Bengals compete at a university located in the state of Idaho, near the city of Pocatello, a population of about 60,000 inhabitants that is 1,368 kilometers by road from Los Angeles.
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Pablo Tamba already knows what it’s like to play in the mecca of college basketball in the United States