COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Following three days of training camp at the U.S.
Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., that kicked off on June
24 with 26 of the nation's top collegiate athletes, the USA Basketball Men's
Junior National Team Committee today announced 16 finalists for the 2013 USA
Basketball Men's World University Games Team.
Training camp will continue in Colorado Springs through June 30, and the
12-member roster will be announced prior to the team's departure for Russia
on July 1. The 2013 World University Games (WUGs) men's basketball
competition will be played July 7-16 in Kazan, Russia.
Named as finalists were: Spencer Dinwiddie (Colorado/Woodland Hills,
Calif.); Yogi Ferrell (Indiana/Indianapolis, Ind.); Davante Gardner
(Marquette/Suffolk, Va.); Treveon Graham (Virginia Commonwealth/Temple
Hills, Md.); Jerian Grant (Notre Dame/Bowie, Md.); Luke Hancock (Louisville/
Roanoke, Va.); Tyler Haws (BYU/Alpine, Utah); Rodney Hood (Duke/Meridian,
Miss.); Cory Jefferson (Baylor/ Killeen, Texas); Sean Kilpatrick
(Cincinnati/Yonkers, N.Y.); Alex Kirk (New Mexico/Los Alamos, N.M.); Doug
McDermott (Creighton/Ames, Iowa); Adreian Payne (Michigan State/Dayton,
Ohio); Chasson Randle (Stanford/Rock Island, Ill.); Will Sheehey
(Indiana/Stuart, Fla.); and Aaron White (Iowa/Strongsville, Ohio).
Additionally, P.J. Hairston (North Carolina/Greensboro, N.C.) suffered an
injury to his back during the evening session on June 25 and was not able to
continue his participation.
"The effort of this group was unbelievable, and it was very tough to get
down," said Jim Boeheim (Syracuse University), chair of the USA Basketball
Men's Junior National Team Committee. "Usually, it's pretty easy to get down
to 16. It was not easy with this group. It was very difficult. Guys were
very, very close in a two-day tryout. Another day, and it might have been a
couple of different guys in there, but you have to take the guys that played
the best, and those 16 played the best.
"I think we have the nucleus of a really good team. We've got good big guys,
we've got good wing players, we've got scorers, we've got shooters, so I
think it's a balanced team. That's what you hope for on these teams."
Davidson College's Bob McKillop will lead the USA, with assistant coaches
John Beilein of the University of Michigan and Frank Martin of the
University of South Carolina.
Randle is a two-time USA Basketball gold medalist, having helped the USA to
a 5-0 record at the inaugural 2009 FIBA Americas U16 Championship in
Mendoza, Argentina, and an 8-0 record in the first FIBA U17 World
Championship in 2010 in Hamburg, Germany.
McDermott was a member of the 2011 USA Basketball Men's U19 World
Championship Team that finished in fifth place with a 7-2 record in the 2011
FIBA U19 World Championship in Latvia.
