FIBA Basketball World Cup: Spain opens title retention bid by routing Ivory Coast 94-64.
At Jakarta, Willy Hernangomez scored 22 points and got defending champion Spain off to a winning start in its first game of the World Cup. His brother Juancho had 11 points.
Spain is No. 1 ranked by FIBA and a strong contender to repeat its title.
Bazoumana Kone led Ivory Coast with 11 points and Jean Philippe Dalley added 10 points.
Spain faces Brazil on Monday and Ivory Coast gets Iran.
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