Basketball player Raivo Kudrjavcevs to continue career in US college

Latvian basketball player Raivo Kudrjavcevs intends to continue his career in the United States, representing the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga team "Mocs" in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The 18-year-old point guard announced this on Thursday.

This season's numbers

This season Kudrjavcevs plays for "Rīgas ekselences juniori". In three Latvian-Estonian League games he has averaged 13.7 points, 5.7 assists and 3.0 rebounds in 31 minutes per game. His three-point shooting stands at 35.7%.

Previous season

Previously the Latvian represented "Rīgas zeļļi", where his role was smaller and his three-point accuracy was the same, 35.7%. He spent most of his time with the club's second team, which played in Latvia's second-strongest league. In 14 games there, all of them starting in the first five, he averaged 18.9 points, 5.2 assists and 4.9 rebounds in 32 minutes.

International experience

At this summer's European U-18 Championship, Kudrjavcevs was the third-best passer, averaging five assists per game.

The next team

The best result for "Mocs" in NCAA Division I dates back to 1997, when the team reached the round of the last sixteen.