Purdue Jaden Ivey, Caleb Furst Earn Spots on the USA U-19 Roster
FORT WORTH, Texas — Purdue basketball players Caleb Furst and Jaden Ivey were selected as two of 12 members for the USA Basketball U-19 World Cup Team.
Ivey and Furst were among 26 players to try out for the team and will now look to win a gold medal at the FIBA U-19 World Cup, which will be held from July 3-11 in Latvia.
The 2021 USA Men's U19 World Cup Team roster is set 🇺🇸
— USABJNT (@usabjnt) June 25, 2021
The 12-member squad will go for gold at the 2021 FIBA U19 World Cup from July 3-11 in Latvia.
Freshman teammate Trey Kaufman-Renn was invited to participate in the tryouts as well but was unable to attend due to a hand injury he suffered in the Indiana-Kentucky All-Star Series.
Furst was one of seven players who are entering their freshman year of college basketball, while Ivey is one of 10 collegiate players to have made the cut.
The 2021 FIBA U-19 World Cup will feature teams from 16 nations in Riga and Daugavpils, Latvia. In addition to the USA and host Latvia, the teams that are taking part in this summer’s U-19 World Cup include Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, France, Japan, Lithuania, Mali, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Serbia, South Korea, Spain and Turkey.
The USA was drawn into Group D, alongside Australia, Mali and Turkey for the three-day FIBA U-19 World Cup preliminary round from July 3 to July 6. The USA will open against Turkey on July 3, followed by Mali on July 4 and finish against Australia on July 6.
Ivey was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman team last season and was mentioned as a preseason All-American for the 2021-22 season. He averaged 11.1 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game as a freshman. Over his last six games last year, he averaged 18.2 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game while shooting 37-of-79 from the field in that span.
He scored 26 points against North Texas, the second-most ever by a Big Ten freshman in an NCAA Tournament debut.
Furst is a 6-foot-10 freshman from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and was named Indiana's Mr. Basketball after a standout career at Blackhawk Christian. Furst led Blackhawk Christian to Indiana State Championships in 2019 and 2021, scoring 2,087 career points while becoming the school's all-time leading scorer and rebounder. He averaged 21.4 points, 14.1 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.2 blocked shots as a senior.
The USA U-19 team will be led by TCU coach Jamie Dixon and assisted by Stanford coach Jerod Haase and Yale coach James Jones.
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