Augustana senior Kyle Nelson and his teammates are in China. He will be blogging regularly on D3hoops.com about the team’s journey.

Our final day in Xi’an consisted of a morning sightseeing trip and a game. In the morning we gathered to see the 600 year old Xi’an city wall. The wall was 36 ft high and nine miles around in a rectangle shape. It was an impressive structure that had four entrances to the inner city at the North, South, East and West sides. Our guide explained that the entrances had to be altered to handle today’s foot and car traffic into the city.

We spent about an hour on the wall before heading to the markets and back four a pregame meal at the hotel.

It was an hour drive to Xi’an University, which is also called Northwest Polytechnic University. The campus was very modern looking and had a large basketball arena. Our game was played in front of about 1000 fans that there were not as loud as the previous match. The officials allowed a physical game, which was fine for us. We jumped to a big lead at half and rode the momentum for a 78-54 final to move our record to 3-0 in China.

We have a very early flight to Beijing in the morning and then play the National Developmental CBA team at their training center. This will be the second game of a three day, three game stretch and it is sure to be the best opponent thus far.

Vikes look to go 4-0 tomorrow!

Kyle Nelson