LAUSANNE (Switzerland) - USA reclaimed their spot atop global basketball by taking home the crown at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2025 with a 109-76 victory over Germany in the Final.
A crowd of 7,234 at Lausanne Arena saw the Americans put together a 22-2 run early in the second half to take control of the game. Morez Johnson Jr scored 15 points to lead a balanced attack of six USA players in double figures.
USA had finished fourth at the 2023 edition and this year's group considered themselves a Redeem Team. And the Americans accomplished the mission.
Germany had already secured their best-ever result at the competition just by reaching the Final. They could not keep up with the Americans' firepower and settled for second place. Hannes Steinbach had 19 points in the loss.
AJ Dybantsa MVP
AJ Dybantsa capped an impressive run to the title by winning the TISSOT Most Valuable Player award. Dybantsa collected 11 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists in USA's win over Germany and averaged 14.3 points, 4.1 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.1 steals per game.
Dybantsa was joined on the SwissBorg All-Star Five by teammate Mikel Brown Jr, the Germany duo of Christian Anderson and Hannes Steinbach as well as Zak Smrekar of Slovenia.
Jordan Charles of Canada, New Zealand's Tama Isaac, Dayan Nessah of Switzerland, Roman Siulepa from Australia and Tyler Kropp from Argentina were selected for the All-Second Team while Danijel Radosavljevic of Slovenia was named as Best coach and USA's Jordan Smith Jr. took home the honor as Best Defensive Player.
Slovenia took third place after staving off a fight from New Zealand to win 91-87 in the Third Place Game. Zak Smrekar and Vit Hrabar both scored 20 points and Urban Kroflic totaled 19 points, 16 rebounds and 4 assists for Slovenia, who had never finished on the podium at a global event.
Final Standings of the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2025
1. USA 2. Germany 3. Slovenia 4. New Zealand 5. Canada 6. Australia 7. Israel 8. Switzerland 9. Serbia 10. France 11. Mali 12. Argentina 13. China 14. Cameroon 15. Dominican Republic 16. Jordan
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