COLORADO SPRINGS (USA) - USA Basketball announced its 12-man roster for the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2023 with a team that is a mix of old and young with five players who have hoisted a trophy with USA on their chest.

Head coach Tad Boyle will have two returnees from the team that won the FIBA U18 Americas Championship 2022 with Mark Armstrong and Eric Dailey Jr. Kylan Boswell helped USA win the FIBA U16 Americas Championship 2021. Ian Jackson and Asa Newell were part of the team that won the FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup 2022 while Jackson teamed up with Boswell on the U16 Americas side.

Kylan Boswell

USA's roster for the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2023

Mark Armstrong, Tobe Awaka, Omaha Biliew, Kylan Boswell, Myles Colvin, Eric Dailey Jr., Dylan Harper, Ian Jackson, Tre Johnson, Ven-Allen Lubin, Asa Newell, Cody Williams

Armstrong (Villanova) and Boswell (Arizona) are two of four USA players who spent last season in college basketball along with Ven-Allen Lubin (Vanderbilt) and Tobe Awaka (Tennessee). Dailey (Oklahoma State) meanwhile is one of four more players who will start their collegiate careers in the autumn along with Cody Williams (Colorado), Myles Colvin (Purdue) and Omaha Biliew (Iowa State). Biliew, Dailey and Williams also played for USA at the 2023 Nike Hoop Summit.

The USA roster also features three of the top five-ranked high school seniors in the United States according to ESPN - No. 1  Tre Johnson, No. 2 Dylan Harper and No. 5 Jackson with Newell ranked at No. 14. Johnson and Harper are both 2006-born players, so two years younger than the rest of the competition.

 
USA will be playing in Group B in Hungary starting on June 24 when they face Madagascar. USA will also take on Slovenia and Lebanon in the group.

USA enter the competition as reigning champions and winners of four of the last five U19 tournaments and a record eight titles.

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