Andrey Vorontsevich only missed one shot to finish with a double-double of 18 points and 11 rebounds

Russia crashed the Quarter-Final Party at the FIBA World Championship with a 78-56 win over New Zealand on Monday night.

David Blatt's side, getting 18 points and 11 rebounds from Andrey Vorontsevich, has joined Serbia, Spain, Slovenia and Turkey in the last eight.

Blatt, who announced earlier in the tournament that he was leaving the Russian national side after six years in the job, will now lead his team against the undefeated United States in the Quarter-Finals.

"The American team is made up of great players and great coaches," Blatt said. "For our guys it will be a big challenge. It will be something special for them to remember. Who knows? Maybe we can give them a game.

"On paper it doesn't look like that. We've surprised a few people before."

On Monday, Russia were well prepared against a very dangerous Tall Blacks team.

They broke open a close game late in the third quarter.

Russia led 38-35 when Vorontsevich buried one of this three shots from the arc on the night to spark a 13-0 run.

New Zealand's Kirk Penney, who spent much of the game on the bench in foul trouble, drew a foul from Evgeny Voronov as time expired at the end of frame and made two free-throws to reduce Russia's advantage to 51-40.

Vitaly Fridzon then fouled Penney when he was attempting a three-ball with 9:41 to go and the veteran sank all three free-throws to reduce the arrears to 51-43.

Vorontsevich came to the rescue, though, scoring with a jump shot and then Sergey Bykov followed with a three-ball from the right corner as Russia went back in front at 56-43.

New Zealand got no closer than 10 points the rest of the way.

As far as his own team, Blatt couldn't be any prouder.

"I have a lot of good, young guys that really want to play," Blatt said.

"We don't have any of the big stars, some who don't want to play, some who can't play like Viktor (Khryapa). Last year at the EuroBasket without stars, we won five games and we really did play good basketball.

"We have won five games at the World Championship with just a bunch of guys that want to play for each other and want to play the best that they can be and it's an honor to coach this team."

Russia have thrived despite the absence of players like Andrei Kirilenko, who hasn't played for the country the past two years.

Kirilenko was the MVP of EuroBasket 2007.

"This sends an enormous message to all the young kids in Russia that you don't have to be Kirilenko, (JR) Holden or Khryapa to be a national team member and to want to play for your country and prove yourselves on the big stage."