Team USA U18 Team Update

Congrats to Josh Hairston, Kyrie Irving, and Quincy Miller, Amir Williams, and Austin Rivers for making the U18 USA Olympic team.

2 of the five will definitely represent not only Duke in the future, but also their country in the FIBA Americas tournament. We're still waiting on Quincy and Amir to choose the right blue uniform to put on...

Here's an article about Kyrie's performance down in San Antonio: http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/duke_signee_irving_has_star_potential_96444609.html?ua=m&c=y

For the full team roster, go here: http://www.zagsblog.com/2010/06/16/usa-under-18-team-finalized/

The following guys made the team:

Vander Blue, Trevor Cooney, Abdul Gaddy, Josh Hairston, Kyrie Irving, Quincy Miller, Tony Mitchell, LeBryan Nash, Jereme Richmond, Austin Rivers, Amir Williams and Patric Young.


If you read our earlier post on the Team USA tryouts here: http://dukehoop.blogspot.com/2010/06/duke-recruits-this-weekend.html, you would know that Team USA has the following schedule:

Following the June 16 announcement of the 2010 USA U18 National Team that will compete in the FIBA Americas U18 Championship, the squad will train that afternoon starting at 4:00 p.m. The team is scheduled to remain in San Antonio and train twice a day starting at 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., with scrimmages scheduled against the 2010 USA Basketball Men’s U17 World Championship Team in the afternoons of June 21 and 22, and against the Brazil U18 National Team on June 23.

The FIBA Americas Men’s U18 Championship will feature eight national teams from North, South and Central America and the Caribbean. On March 5 the draw was held to determine the first round groups, and the USA was placed into Group A, along with Argentina, Mexico and the Virgin Islands. Group B includes Brazil, Canada, Puerto Rico and Uruguay. The U.S. will open preliminary play against the Virgin Islands on June 26 at 7:00 p.m. (all times listed are local, CDT). On June 27 the USA will face Mexico at 7:00 p.m. and will close preliminary play against South American rivals Argentina on June 28 at 7:00 p.m. The semifinals are slated for June 29, and the finals will be held June 30.


Congratulations again for all who made the team!