Olympic/National Team. The USA Men’s World Cup team
featured: DeMarcus Cousins (Sacramento Kings); Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors); Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans); DeMar DeRozan (Toronto Raptors); Andre Drummond (Detroit Pistons); Kenneth Faried (Denver Nuggets); Rudy Gay (Sacramento Kings); James Harden (Houston Rockets); Kyrie Irving (Cleveland Cavaliers); Mason Plumlee (Brooklyn Nets); Derrick Rose (Chicago Bulls); and Klay Thompson(Golden State Warriors). Assisting Krzyzewski were Jim Boeheim (Syracuse University), Tom Thibodeau (Chicago Bulls) and Monty Williams (New Orleans Pelicans). The USA men became just the third
country in FIBA Basketball World Cup history to capture consecutive titles, and its +33.0 points per game differential was the most by a U.S. men’s team in a FIBA Basketball World Cup or Olympic Games since the 1994 Worlds (+37.8). Irving was selected MVP of the
FIBA World Cup, and Faried joined him on the five-member all-tournament team. With six players averaging double
figures, led by 14.2 points per game from Harden, the USA led the 24-team World Cup field in scoring offense (104.6 points a game), scoring margin (+33.0), field goal percentage (.524), rebounding (44.8), rebounding margin (+9.0), defensive rebounds (29.9), assists (20.4), steals (12.1) and turnover margin (+8.3).
The team also tallied a 4-0 exhibi-
tion record with dominating wins over Brazil (95-78, Aug. 16, Chicago, Ill.), Dominican Republic (105-62, Aug. 20, New York, N.Y.), Puerto Rico (112-86, Aug. 22, New York, N.Y.) and Slovenia (101-71, Aug. 26, Gran Canaria, Spain). Additionally, as part of USA
Basketball’s Hoops for Troops program, the team toured the United States Military Academy at West Point on Aug. 18, met with the families of military members lost in battle and ate lunch with more than 4,000 cadets before holding an open practice on campus. During the USA Basketball Showcase in Las Vegas on Aug. 1, nearly 200 men and women marched out onto the court and pledged their service to the United
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The 2014 USA Women’s World Championship Team won its second-consecutive World title and its ninth all-time. The American squad bettered its opponents by 28.8 points per game.
States Army, and USA Basketball pro- vided courtside seats for men and women military members who serve at Nellis Air Force Base. The USA women’s team featured:
Seimone Augustus (Minnesota Lynx); Sue Bird (Seattle Storm); Tina Charles (New York Liberty); Candice Dupree (Phoenix Mercury); Brittney Griner (Phoenix Mercury); Angel McCoughtry (Atlanta Dream); Maya Moore (Minnesota Lynx); Nnemkadi Ogwumike (Los Angeles Sparks); Odyssey Sims (Tulsa Shock); Breanna Stewart (University of Connecticut); Diana Taurasi (Phoenix Mercury); and Lindsay Whalen (Minnesota Lynx). Auriemma was assisted by Doug Bruno (DePaul University), Cheryl Reeve (Minnesota Lynx) and Dawn Staley (University of South Carolina).
The women’s title was a record
ninth FIBA World Championship gold and second consecutive gold for the USA, and Moore was selected MVP of the World Championship while Griner joined her on the five-member all- tournament team. Further, Bird became FIBA’s most decorated World Cup/Championship player of all-time, male or female, having also earned gold in 2002 and 2010 and a bronze medal in 2006.
The USA’s 75-point win over
Angola in its final preliminary round game was the USA’s largest margin of victory in FIBA World Championship play, and it tied for the most points scored by a U.S. team in a World Championship.
Led by three players in double
figure scoring, the USA led the 16-team field in points per game (92.2), scoring margin (+28.8), field goal percentage (.542), field goal percentage defense (.323), 3-point percentage (.431), rebounding offense (50.8), rebounding defense (31.0), rebounding margin (19.8) and assists (22.3).
The team also tallied a 4-1
exhibition record with wins over Canada (76-51, Sept. 15, Bridgeport, Conn.), Australia (72-66,Sept. 19, Paris) and China (99-75, Sept. 20, Paris), a loss to France (76-72, Sept. 21, Paris), and a win over Czech Republic (76-41, Sept. 23, Prague, Czech Republic).
As part of USA Basketball’s Hoops
for Troops program, the team conducted a clinic for children of military families on campus at the U.S Naval Academy and at a Boys & Girls Club in Annapolis, Maryland, on Sept. 10. On Sept. 11 at the University of Delaware during the USA Basketball Showcase, a Red-White exhibition game, the team honored members of the military in a halftime presentation.
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