SAITAMA -- Turkey's offense was punchless in the final three quarters and Argentina punched its ticket to the FIBA World Championship's final four.

Andres Nocioni scored a game-best 21 points and three teammates also scored in double figures as the defending Olympic champion thumped Turkey 83-58 at Saitama Super Arena on Tuesday.

It was the second rout of the day. Spain topped Lithuania 89-67 in the first quarterfinal.

Greece meets France and the U.S. faces Germany in the 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. quarterfinal games, respectively, on Wednesday.

Argentina takes on Spain in a highly anticipated semifinal matchup on Friday. Tipoff is 4:30 p.m.

Spain beat Argentina twice in warmup games earlier this summer. But before the Argentines turned their attention to Spain, they needed to get past Turkey.

They took a nine-point lead into the second quarter. Turkey pulled within 28-20 on Kerem Gonlum's stickback.

Argentina then closed the half on a 15-3 run, taking a 43-23 advantage into the locker room.

"In the first quarter, both teams showed a pretty even game," Argentina guard Pablo Prigioni said, "but afterward in the second quarter we were able to overcome the Turkish team."

Sergio Hernandez's club never lost its focus or its full-throttle intensity the remainder of the game. And this sparked a one-sided victory in which 10 Argentines played more than 12 minutes.

"(We) played as if it was 0-0," Prigioni said of his team's mentality, "and this allowed us to get a bigger difference."

Turkey, one of the surprise teams of this competition, now looks to regroup.

Up next: a contest against Lithuania on Thursday at 4:30 p.m.

"I am proud to be a member of this team," shooting guard Cenk Akyol said, "because in Turkey nobody was expecting us to be in the (final) eight."

Akyol, however, was clearly disappointed by the result.

"We never thought that it would be a 30-point game," he said. "We couldn't play good defense. They made easy baskets on the fast break. We lost it, there's nothing to talk about."

Turkey coach Bogdan Tanjevic praised Argentina's performance and underscored what makes Argentina such a difficult foe, calling it the "great mentality of the other team."

Like blurred objects appearing out of a train window, different Argentina players took turns taking over the game.

There was Carlos Delfino's solid output (14 points and eight rebounds). There was Luis Scola's steady night (he finished 6-for-10 and scored 13). There was Fabricio Oberto's methodical 10-point game. And there was Juan "Pepe" Sanchez's six assists.

Late in the third, Manu Ginobili, who had seven points, and Nocioni swished consecutive 3-pointers as Argentina took a 61-31 advantage. The lead stretched to 36 on a Delfino free throw with 59.6 seconds left in the quarter. There was more of the same in the fourth. After falling behind early, Turkey took a 14-13 lead to change the tide of the first quarter. Then Nocioni, the Chicago Bulls' young star, converted a three-point play to put the South American club up by one with 4:07 left in the first.

Scola's basket-and-one play pushed the lead to 24-16 in the closing seconds of the period. Walter Hermann drained a 3-pointer to increase Argentina's margin to 28-18 early in the second. Gonlum came off the bench and injected some much-needed verve for his sluggish club, attempting two dunks in a matter of seconds.

The first ricocheted hard off the rim; the second sent him to the line for two shots. His energy didn't match his productivity, though. He was 1-for-5 from the floor in the half.

As a team, Turkey shot 32 percent (9-for-28) in the half. Atoning for two missed free throws seconds earlier, Delfino made a steal and threw down a thunderous dunk, making the Argentina advantage 41-23 with 2:34 left in the half.

Turkey scored seven points in the second quarter.