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The Vilnius Rytas forward team is bolstered by the basketball player who competed in the NCAA championships. The capital club has signed a contract with Lithuanian Rapolas Ivanauskas, 22, who will arrive in Vilnius in the next few days.
“We are happy to be able to fill a young, promising and promising Lithuanian”, says the head of Ryto. coach Giedrius Žibėnas. – Rapolas is a tall mobile man, extremely versatile, which will add us to the missing centimeters, especially considering the currently reduced ranks of our attackers. We hope that Rapolas does not have an adaptation period to get used to the European style of play and that he can reveal all his good qualities already this season.
2018-2019 R.Ivanauskas was one of the main leaders of the College College team and this season he was nominated as the player of the year for his conference. The Lithuanian NCAA recorded 15.9 points, 7.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists.
The 208cm tall heavyweight forward spent the Atlantic last season with the Cincinnati Bearcats. In this season’s NCAA championship, the tallest scored an average of 6.3 points in 7 games played and bounced 5 balls in 21 minutes.
However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, R.Ivanauskas made the decision not to continue the season and leave the team.
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