USA Men’s World Cup And USA Women’s World Championship Teams Earn 2014 Co-USA Basketball Team of the Year Award
a berth into the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, the 2014 USA Men’s World Cup and USA Women’s World Championship teams were selected as co-recipients of the 2014 USA Basketball Team of the Year. USA Basketball’s Board of Directors is responsible for selecting its annual award winners.
O “USA Basketball is proud to recog-
nize the accomplishments of the USA Men’s World Cup and USA Women’s World Championship teams and to honor them as the 2014 USA Basketball co-Teams of the Year,” said USA Basketball CEO/Executive Director Jim Tooley. “In addition to playing basket- ball at the highest level, these athletes and coaches demonstrated impressive sportsmanship and teamwork that led to tremendous success. We are very grateful for their commitment and dedication.”
The 2014 USA Basketball Men’s
World Cup Team captured a 9-0 record and the gold medal at the FIBA Basketball World Cup from Aug. 30-Sept. 14 in Bilbao, Barcelona and Madrid, Spain.
“We talked about selfless-
ness on this team when we first got together in Las Vegas, and I think this team epito- mized that," said Jerry Colangelo, USA Basketball Men's National Team manag- ing director. “Different people stepped up on different nights to lead the charge, and it was just a great experience. With no discredit to our previous teams, this may have been the hardest-working team on our tenure because the attitude was there every day. This was also the youngest team we've ever had, and maybe that's a part of that reason or logic. But the work ethic was terrific; we couldn't have asked for more.”
“I think the most special 14
n the heels of gold-medal performances that secured the USA men and women
For the first time the United States men captured consecutive FIBA World Cup titles, and while rolling to a 9-0 record to claim gold in 2014, the closest win recorded by the Americans was a 21-point margin.
thing about this team was the experience as a whole,” said USA men’s head coach Mike Krzyzewski (Duke University). “In other words, where we started from, with injury, with people with contracts or per- sonal issues that were not able to attend.
The prediction was not one of victory, and where it turned out was at the com- pletely other end of the spectrum. And the journey was the best one we’ve had, I think. I loved it. I love our staff, and we became a very, very close team.”
The 2014 USA Basketball USA Basketball Team Of The Year Award Recipients
Year Team 2014 USA Men’s FIBA World Cup/USA National Teams USA Women’s FIBA World Championship/USA National Teams
2013 USA Men’s U19 World Championship Team 2012 U.S. Men’s Olympic Team/USA Men’s National Teams U.S. Women’s Olympic Team/USA Women’s National Teams
2011 USA Women’s FIBA U19 World Championship Team 2010 USA Men’s FIBA World Championship/USA National Teams USA Women’s FIBA World Championship/USA National Teams USA Men’s U19 World Championship Team
2009
2008 U.S. Men’s Olympic Team/USA National Team U.S. Women’s Olympic Team/USA National Team
2007 USA Men’s FIBA Americas Championship Team/ USA Men’s Senior National Team USA Women’s FIBA Americas Championship Team/ USA Women’s National Team
2006 USA Men’s FIBA World Championship Team/ USA Men’s Senior National Team
2005 USA Women's U19 World Championship Team 2004 U.S. Women’s Olympic Team/USA Women’s National Team 2003 USA World Championship For Young Women Team 2002 USA Women’s FIBA World Championship Team 2001 USA FIBA World Championship For Young Men Team 2000 U.S. Women’s Olympic Team/USA Women’s National Team 1999 USA Men’s Tournament of the Americas Team 1998 USA Women’s FIBA World Championship Team 1997 USA Women’s FIBA Junior World Championship Team 1996 U.S. Women’s Olympic Team/USA Women’s National Team
Women’s World Championship Team captured a 6-0 record and the gold medal at the FIBA World Championship from Sept. 27–Oct. 5 in Istanbul, Turkey.
“We really didn’t have a
lot of time or preparation and had a lot of new players on the team we tried to incorporate,” said USA women’s head coach Geno Auriemma (University of Connecticut). “We played exceptionally well in Istanbul and had a great group in terms of how easy they were to coach. The chemistry we had on the team was about as smooth sailing as any USA Basketball team I’ve been involved with.”
This year’s announcement
marks the 19th time USA Basketball has presented the Team of the Year Award, which first was earned in 1996 by the historic USA Women’s
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