Notre Dame's Tim Abromaitis finished with 3 points and 4 boards against Germany.

Behind a dominate performance from Trevor Mbakwe (Minnesota/ St. Paul, Minn.), who finished with 21 points and eight rebounds, the 2011 USA Men’s World University Games Team (7-1) fought its way to a 86-83 win over Germany (6-2) to finish in fifth place in the 2011 World University Games on Monday night at Luohu Gym in Shenzhen, China.

Trailing by one point at halftime, 41-40, the USA outscored its opponent 28-12 in the points-in-the-paint category and grabbed 19 boards to Germany’s 8 in the second half to help the Americans hold onto a
hard-fought win that was decided in the final minutes.

Mbakwe was 7-of-9 from the field and, after drawing 12 fouls from the German side, finished 7-of-9 from the charity stripe as well.

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