2014 MEN’S U17 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
USA Men Defeat All Challengers To Capture 2014 FIBA U17 World Championship With Perfect 7-0 Record
“We got different help every night from our bench. I’ve always said that you put our five starters against the five starters from Australia, Serbia or Spain, it’s
going to be a really close game. But our bench, our seven guys who come off the bench is kind of what separates us.”
Don Showalter USA Head Coach
After tipping off training
camp on July 24 with 32 athletes, the official 12-member 2014 USA Basketball Men’s U17 World Championship Team included nine members of the 2013 USA
U16 National Team that captured gold at the FIBA Americas U16 Championship, including tournament MVP Malik Newman (Callaway H.S./Jackson, Miss.), as well as three international newcomers. In addition to Newman, the
Above: For a third consecutive FIBA U17 World Championship the USA men were crowned world champions. Finishing 7-0 in 2014, since the start of the FIBA U17 competitions in 2010, the Americans boast of a golden 23-0 overall record.
Championship. Just as it did in 2010, when FIBA started the U17 World Championship competition, and again in 2012, the Americans rolled to a perfect mark to claim the gold medal. In the process of collecting the gold
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he USA made it three-for-three when it captured the 2014 FIBA U17 World
and finishing 7-0, the USA averaged 104.1 points a game and defeated its seven opponents by an average of 38.1 points a game. The U.S. led the 16-team field in 10
team statistical categories including scor- ing, margin of victory, field goal percent- age, offensive rebounding, rebounding margin, assists, blocked shots and steals.
2014 USA U17 World Championship Team featured: Tyus Battle (Gill St. Bernard’s School/Edison, N.J.); Henry Ellenson (Rice Lake H.S./ Rice Lake, Wis.); Terrence Ferguson (Prime Prep Academy/Flower Mound, Texas); Harry Giles (Wesleyan Christian Academy/ Winston-Salem, N.C.); Josh Jackson (Consortium College Prep H.S./ Southfield, Mich.); V.J. King (St.
Vincent-St. Mary H.S./Akron, Ohio); Ivan Rabb (Bishop O’Dowd H.S./ Oakland, Calif.); Devearl Ramsey (Sierra Canyon School/Los Angeles, Calif.); Diamond Stone (Dominican H.S./ Milwaukee, Wis.); Caleb Swanigan (Homestead H.S./Fort Wayne, Ind.); and Jayson Tatum (Chaminade College
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