Cameron Boozer, Koa Peat lead USA to another gold at under-17 FIBA Basketball World Cup

Andy Buhler | Jul 7, 2024

Columbus (Florida) forward Cameron Boozer looks on during the 2023 Les Schwab Invitational in Oregon. Boozer is one of, if not the nation's top prospect in 2025. / Naji Saker, SBLive Sports

As Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Steph Curry and the rest of the USA Basketball team readies for the 2024 Paris Olympics, a collection of some of the nation's top high school players offered a glimpse at the future Istanbul, Turkey on Sunday.

Led by incoming Cameron Boozer and Koa Peat, two of the nation's top incoming seniors, the USA Basketball under-17 team throttled Italy for its seventh straight gold medal at the FIBA Under-17 World Cup.

The USA boys won 129-88 in a game that started with a 21-2 run and which Italy never seriously threatened to jeopardize the USA boys' 51-0 all-time record.

Boozer was named MVP of the tournament. He finished the championship game with a 24-point, 13-board double-double. Koa Peat finished with a game-high 26 points along with eight boards and four assists.

Tyran Stokes had 17 points, including a two-handed poster dunk. The 6-foot-7 Prolific Prep (California) forward, the nation's No. 1 prospect (247 Sports) and consensus top-2 prospect in 2026, also threw a transition alley-oop to Peat, who finished with two hands late in the third. Dybantsa finished with 14 points and four boards.

Dybantsa is No. 1, Boozer No. 2 and Peat is the nation's No. 5 ranked player in the class of 2025, according to 247 Sports.

Gold. Medal. Plays.

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— USABJNT (@usabjnt) July 7, 2024

Italy was led by 16-year-old Italian amateur Achille Lonati's 20 points and an 18-point, eight-board, eight-assist showing from Maikcol Perez. Lake Travis High School (Texas) point guard Adrian Mathis, a Texas high school basketball standout who plays for Italy, also had 18 points.