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RIGA, Latvia - International Perspectives on here for the NCAA Championship U19 FIBA, the most intriguing I found was not even playing at Arena Riga this week - he slept upstairs in the bleachers, behind a handful of NBA scouts.

Youssef Mejri of the Tunisian national team was eliminated by July 5, after losing all five games in Liepaja and Valmiera, and 6 feet 8 power forward was killing time until his departure for Tunisia. Once there, he planned to work with his father, a government lawyer, the sort of problem.

The center of NCAA still needs clarification on the Mejri transcripts from high school, who are in a mixture of French, Arabic and English, before it can be allowed to play at Davidson. He was admitted to the university, who signed despite the fact that he never played a single game high school during his nine months in the U.S. "I'm not sure what going to happen next, "he said.

Mejri, who averaged 3.2 points and 2.6 rebounds in 17.8 minutes per game in the FIBA ​​tournament, is the prospect ultimate mystery. His profile on the FIBA site lacked even a headshot, and no footage was available of his U19 games. The only film of him on YouTube is a Los Angeles Times feature that shows him shooting alone in a gym at Montclair College Prep in Van Nuys, Calif. From that, all we can deduce is that he has a smooth jump shot, and is capable of dunking.

Should Mejri get the NCAA's OK at Davidson, it will be a happy ending to a distressing year in his basketball career. After playing in a Basketball Without Borders camp in Senegal last August, and expressing interest in coming to the U.S. for high school, he was referred to Stoneridge Prep in Simi Valley, Calif., by former Loyola Marymount coach Bill Bayno. But within weeks, Mejri was out of the school, and his coach there, Joe Hillock, was fired. "I had to leave," Mejri said, "because there were so many problems with life conditions, food and shelter -- everything, really." His initial tuition agreement with the school, he said, had included food, but they abruptly stopped feeding him, only telling him that their cook had to leave due to a divorce.

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