The USA Basketball Committee has chosen 4 former NCAA athletes to signify the first-ever U.S. Olympic males’s 3×3 basketball staff within the 2024 Paris Video games.
The 4 gamers signify BYU, Florida, Princeton and Florida Southern.
The staff is led by head coach Joe Lewandowski, who has been concerned within the USA 3×3 program since 2012, incomes seven gold medals, 5 silver medals and one bronze throughout males’s and ladies’s completely different age-grouped occasions. Lewandowski completed his personal faculty enjoying profession at Slippery Rock College in 1999.
The four-man squad gained silver within the 2023 FIBA World Cup and can look to win the first-ever U.S. Olympic males’s 3×3 basketball gold medal after failing to qualify within the occasion’s debut on the 2020 Tokyo Video games.
2024 U.S. Olympic males’s 3×3 basketball staff
PLAYER
SCHOOL (YEAR)
POSITION
Canyon Barry
Charleston (2013-16) and Florida (2016-17)
Guard
Jimmer Fredette
BYU (2007-11)
Guard
Kareem Maddox
Princeton (2007-11)
Ahead
Dylan Travis
Florida Southern (2014-16)
Guard
Canyon Barry Â
Son of Naismith Basketball Corridor of Famer Rick Barry, Canyon performed three seasons on the School of Charleston earlier than a lone season at Florida as a graduate switch learning nuclear engineering. As a Gator, Barry gained the SEC Sixth Man of the 12 months as one in every of Florida’s main objectives scorers off the bench. He additionally broke this system file for consecutive made free throws with 42. After a stint of enjoying overseas in Finland and Czech Republic, Barry joined the U.S. 3×3 basketball program in 2019. He is gained gold on the 2019 Amsterdam World Cup, silver within the 2023 Vienna World Cup and gold within the 2023 Chile Pan American Video games.
KEY DETAILS
Faculty:Â School of Charleston (2013-16), Florida (2016-17)Profession averages: 12.3 PPG, 3.5 RPG, 1.2 APG, 80.8 FTpercentFormer Professional groups:Â Salon Vilpas (2017-18), Basket Brno (2017-18), Iowa Wolves (2018-22)G-league averages:Â 9.1 PPG, 38.7 3P%, 47.2 FG%
CAREER HONORS
Scored 1,292 profession factors, averaging 12.3 per recreation for his profession.
Averaged 12.8 factors in 70 appearances with the School of Charleston and 11.3 factors in 35 video games with the Gators.
Named the 2017 SEC Sixth Man of the 12 months as UF’s second-leading scorer whereas coming off the bench in all however one look.
Enrolled in graduate research in nuclear engineering at UF.
Named the 2017 CoSIDA Educational All-America of the 12 months, the nation’s prime tutorial honor within the sport, becoming a member of Matt Bonner because the second Gator to earn the award.
Three-time Educational All-American, incomes first-team honors in
2016 and 2017 and second-team recognition in 2015.
2015 CAA Winter Sports activities Scholar-Athlete Award (Males’s Basketball)
Three-Time CAA All-Educational Workforce (2014, 2015 and 2016)
Three-Time CAA Participant of the Week choice
2014 CAA All-Rookie Workforce
CAA Co-Rookie of the Week choice (Nov. 18, 2013)
Jimmer Fredette
Fredette performed all 4 years at BYU however is most identified for his standout senior season when he gained the Naismith School Participant of the 12 months honors and was the nation’s main scorer with 28.9 factors per recreation. That 12 months, “Jimmermania” took Provo by storm as Fredette led the Cougars to the Candy Sixteen.
KEY DETAILS
Faculty:Â BYUCareer averages: 18.7 PPG, 3.7 APG, 2.6 RPG, 296 profession 3-pointersFormer NBAÂ groups:Â Kings (2011-13), Bulls (2013-14), Pelicans (2014-15), Knicks (2015-16), Suns (2018-19)NBA profession averages:Â 6.0 ppg, 87.9 FT%, 37.2 3-point %Â
CAREER HONORS
tenth general choose within the 2011 NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks
2010-11 Nation’s main scorer (28.9 factors per recreation)
2011 Nationwide Participant of the 12 months (Naismith, Wood, AP, Oscar Robertson, NABC, Adolph Rupp, Sporting Information, Basketball Instances, CBSSports.com, SI.com)
2011 Lowes Senior CLASS Award
2011 ESPY for Collegiate Male Athlete of the 12 months
2011 first-team All-American (John R. Wood Award, AP, Sporting Information, State Farm Coaches for NABC Division I, USBWA, Basketball Instances, CBSSports.com, SI.com, Yahoo! Sports activities, FoxSports.com, Lute Olson)
2011 MWC Participant of the 12 months
2011 All-MWC First Workforce
2011 MWC Event MVP
2011 NABC All-District 17 First Workforce
2011 USBWA All-District VIII First Workforce
2011 USBWA District VIII Participant of the 12 months
2011 Dick Vitale Nationwide Participant of the Week (Dec. 13, Jan. 10, Jan. 17)
2011 ESPN.com Weekly Watch Nationwide Participant of the Week (Jan. 10, Jan. 17)
2011 MWC Participant of the Week (Nov. 29, Dec. 13, Jan. 3, Jan. 10, Jan. 17, Jan. 24, Feb. 7, Feb. 28)
2011 South Padre Island Invitational MVP
2011 Bob Cousy Award Finalist (Last 5)
2010 USBWA Nationwide Participant of the Week (Dec. 13)
2010 Basketball Instances All-America Second Workforce
2010 NABC State Farm Coaches’ Division I All-America Third Workforce
2010 Lute Olson All-America
2010 AP All-America Honorable Point out
2010 Sporting Information All-America Third Workforce
2010 NABC All-District 17
2010 USBWA All-District VIII
2010 USBWA All-District VIII Participant of the 12 months
2010 CollegeHoops.web Excessive-Main All-America First Workforce
2010 MWC All-Event
2010 All-MWC First Workforce
2009-10 MWC Participant of the Week (Nov. 16, Dec. 28, Jan. 4, Feb. 1, Feb. 22)
USBWA Oscar Robertson Nationwide Participant of the Week (Jan. 4)
2009-10 Naismith Trophy Midseason Candidate
2009-10 Oscar Robertson Trophy Finalist
2009-10 Wood Award Candidate
2009 HoopTV Las Vegas Traditional MVP
2009 Fiesta Bowl Traditional MVP
2009 CollegeHoops.web Excessive-Main All-America Honorable Point out
2009 USBWA All-District VIII
2009 MWC First Workforce
2009 MWC All-Event
2008-09 MWC Participant of the Week (two occasions)
Kareem Maddox Â
Maddox performed 4 years at Princeton, the place he gained 2011 Ivy League Defensive Participant of the 12 months his senior 12 months. He additionally recorded 108 profession blocks. After faculty, Maddox performed overseas in Netherlands and the UK earlier than taking a break from basketball and pursuing a profession in podcast manufacturing. He then returned to the game and earned a gold medal on the Males’s 3×3 Pan American Video games in 2019. Maddox was a member of the USA 3×3 males’s nationwide staff that fell in need of Olympic qualification in Tokyo.
KEY DETAILS
Faculty:Â PrincetonCareer averages: 7.9 PPG, 4.4 RPG, 1.4 APG, 108 profession blocksFormer professional groups:Â Landstede Hammers (2011-12), Newcastle Eagles (2012-13), Miasto Szkla Krosno (2016-17)Professional profession stats:Â 6.0 ppg, 87.9 FT%, 37.2 3P%Â
CAREER HONORS
2011 Ivy League Defensive Participant of the 12 months
2011 First Workforce All-Ivy League
2011 Ivy League championship
Performed in 104 video games, scored 822 factors (7.9Â ppg.) and grabbed 456 rebounds (4.4 rpg.) over his four-year profession.
56 blocked pictures within the 2010-11 rank second all-time at school historical past for many blocked pictures in a seasonÂ
108 profession blocked pictures rank fourth all-time in program historical past for many blocked pictures in a professionÂ
Dylan Travis
Travis performed basketball within the NAIA at Midland College (2012-13), within the NJCAA at Iowa Central Group School (2013-14) and eventually DII Florida Southern (2014-16). The 6-foot-3 guard led Florida Southern to the 2015 NCAA DII males’s basketball championship, scoring 18 factors and going 4 of 6 from the charity stripe to take the 77-62 win over Indiana (Pa.). Following his collegiate profession, Travis made his nationwide staff debut as a member of the 2022 USA 3×3 Males’s AmeriCup staff. Since then, he is gained a silver medal on the 2023 FIBA 3×3 World Cup and gold medals on the 2023 Pan American Video games 3×3 and the 2022 FIBA 3×3 AmeriCup.
KEY DETAILS
Faculty:Â Florida Southern (DII)NCAA DII profession averages: 15.3 PPG, 5,2 RPG, 3.2 APG, 81.6 FTpercentFormer groups:Â Performed abroad in Germany and Australia
CAREER HONORS
Began 23 video games throughout his senior season with Florida Southern; averaging 15.3 PPG at a 44.5% clip
As a junior at Florida Southern School from 2014-15, performed in 37 video games and averaged 11.2 ppg. to assist his staff to an NCAA DII nationwide championship
As a sophomore at Iowa Central Group School in 2013-14, began in 28 of 32 video games and averaged 18.3 PPG
NABC Honors CourtroomÂ
SSC All-Newcomer Workforce
NCAA Elite Eight All-Event Workforce