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ISTANBUL Turkey used a 21-4 run spanning the second and third quarters Sunday to eliminate France from the basketball world championships with a 95-77 win.
Phoenix Suns forward Hedo Turkoglu scored 20 points and Sinan Guler 17 for Turkey, which played its first tournament game at the new Sinan Erdem Dome. A nearly capacity crowd of 15,000 - including 22 members of the Turkish national soccer team sitting courtside - watched the home team make shoot 35 of 55 from the field in the Round of 16 game.
Boris Diaw of the Charlotte Bobcats led France with 21 points, and Nando de Colo added 15.
Turkey will play Slovenia on Wednesday in the quarterfinals.
SLOVENIA 87, AUSTRALIA 58: Jaka Lokovic scored 19 and Slovenia hit 16 of 33 3-point attempts to eliminate Australia in the Round of 16.
Lokovic's corner 3-pointer during the game's opening seconds sparked a 12-0 run, and Slovenia never looked back. Primoz Brezec of the Milwaukee Bucks had 12 points and Goran Dragic added 10 points and eight assists for Slovenia.
Slovenia's guards cut into Australia's interior defense all game for easy looks or passes to wide-open perimeter shooters.
Australia didn't score until Joseph Ingles' layup 4 1/2 minutes into the game. Australia's 6-foot-6 Brad Newley blocked 6-10 center Gaspar Vidmar's two-handed dunk from behind as time ran out in the first quarter with Slovenia leading 16-8.
