Tommaso Oxilia (born April 22, 1998) is an Italian professional

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player for

Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna, known for sponsorship reasons as Virtus Segafredo Bologna, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. The club was founded in 1929, which makes it the oldest club in Italy and one ...

Professional career

A product of A.S.D. Basket Loano, Oxilia joined the youth ranks of

in 2013. He made his debut in Italy’s top flight

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during the 2013-14 season. In 2016-17, Oxilia made 29 appearances for Bologna, averaging 3.1 points a contest, helping the squad capture the

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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

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, 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.

References

External links

Virtus profile

Italhoop.it profile

Fiba.com profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Oxilia, Tommaso 1998 births Living people Italian men's basketball players Sportspeople from the Province of Savona Shooting guards Small forwards Virtus Bologna players