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Duke and USA Basketball: 2010-Present
6/17/2016 5:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
From Tokyo to Rio and everywhere in between, Duke and USA Basketball have shared many of the moments that have shaped the nation's basketball identity.
Throughout the week on GoDuke.com, we'll take a closer look at the relationship between the two programs. Today we wrap up our series with a closer look at the period of time from 2010 until present day.
Monday: 1960's and 1970's
Tuesday: 1980's
Wednesday: 1990's
Thursday: 2000's
Today: 2010-present
2010
Kyrie Irving got a busy summer for the Duke program in USA Basketball off to a thrilling start, scoring 15 points and dishing out five assists as the U.S. roared back from a late deficit to win, 101-97, at the Nike Hoop Summit.
The FIBA Americas U18 Championship in June was very much a Duke affair, as Capel served as head coach for a team that featured Irving, fellow incoming freshman Josh Hairston and future Blue Devil Austin Rivers. The team shot nearly 54 percent from the floor and outscored its opponents by an average of more than 40 points per game en route to a gold medal in San Antonio and a berth in the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship.
Rivers, heading into his senior year of high school, paced the squad and ranked third at the tournament in scoring with an average of 20.2 points per game, shooting .583 (35-of-60) from the floor and .600 (21-of-35) from outside the arc. On a team that averaged 18.0 assists per game, Irving led the way with an average of 5.2 per contest while chipping in 13.6 points and 5.0 rebounds.
Hairston, along with Irving and Rivers, started all five games for the U.S. and averaged 5.2 points and 2.4 boards.
After helping the U.S. qualify for the tournament in 2009, Cook was again in a USA Basketball uniform to help lead the Americans to gold in the first FIBA U17 Championship in Hamburg, Germany. A starter in all eight games, Cook averaged a team-best 7.4 assists for a team that handed out 24.8 per game on average and scored at a rate of 107.5 points per game.
He also averaged 7.5 points and 3.0 rebounds while shooting .423 (11-of-26) from beyond the three-point line.
Krzyzewski began his second term as head coach of the Senior National Team in the same fashion as he ended his first term, leading the U.S. to gold at the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Istanbul, Turkey. With a group that featured six players under the age of 22, Team USA posted a 9-0 mark to win the FIBA World Championship for the first time since 1994.
The U.S. squad had an average victory margin of 24.9 points and won by double digits in eight of its nine contests. The group shot .497 from the floor for the tournament while limiting its opponents to .381 shooting, including just a .301 clip from long distance.
2011
The U.S. rolled to a 92-80 win in the 2011 Nike Hoop Summit, thanks in large part to contributions from both Rivers and Cook.
The former, in a team-high 26 minutes, scored a game-high 20 points on 7-of-11 shooting from the floor and a 3-of-4 mark from deep, while Cook came off the bench to score 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting in 16 minutes.
The 2011 FIBA Americas U16 Championship offered a glimpse into what was then the future of Duke basketball, as Jabari Parker, Jahlil Okafor and Tyus Jones teamed up to help the U.S. demolish the field in Cancun, Mexico, en route to a gold medal.
The U.S. held its opponents to just .332 shooting from the floor and .286 shooting from three-point range for the tournament, winning by an average of 42.2 points per game. The Americans averaged 24.6 assists, 14.8 steals and 12.0 blocks in the five-game run.
Parker was named the tournament MVP after averaging 15.4 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game. He came out blazing with 27 points and 10 rebounds in the Americans' opening win over Brazil.
Okafor averaged 14.6 points on .711 (27-of-38) shooting to go along with 9.2 rebounds and 1.6 blocks, while Jones led the tournament with an average of 5.6 assists.
Five years after making his USA Basketball debut, Lance Thomas earned his second international medal when he helped the U.S. win bronze at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, in October.
Despite falling to host Mexico in the semifinals, the Americans regrouped to grind out a 94-92 win over the Dominican Republic in the bronze medal game to earn a trip to the medal stand. Thomas played in all five games during the tournament, averaging 8.2 points and a team-high 7.6 rebounds.
USA Basketball wrapped up its year with the announcement of Parker as 2011 USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year.
2012
Another golden summer for Duke and USA Basketball got under way in Kaunas, Lithuania, where the U.S. made it two-for-two at the FIBA U17 World Championship with its second gold medal in as many editions of the event.
The trio of Jones, Okafor and Parker was joined by future Duke star Justise Winslow, making his USA Basketball debut, and the Blue Devil contingent helped make the U.S. team ferocious on the defensive end. In winning all eight of its games on the way to the gold medal, the Americans forced their opponents into .338 shooting from the field and a .218 mark from three-point territory. The U.S. also posted a +19.8 average rebound margin and forced opponents into an average of 22.3 turnovers per game for the tournament.
Okafor earned MVP honors after averaging 13.6 points and 8.3 rebounds while shooting .595 (47-of-79) from the field. Winslow averaged 9.9 points and a team-high 8.8 rebounds to garner All-Tournament Team honors, and Jones averaged 8.5 points to go along with his team-best 5.4 assists per game.
Parker was slowed by a foot injury, but played in three games and averaged 12.6 points and 4.8 rebounds.
Krzyzewski once again led Team USA to an Olympic gold medal in London in 2012, but it was the manner in which he did it that made his second Olympic squad special.
While most experts speculated that perimeter shooting could lead to the downfall of the 2012 squad, Krzyzewski instilled confidence in the players to shoot open shots against international teams' zone defenses. The group responded by making an Olympic-record 129 three-pointers, an average of 16.1 per game, and shooting .440 from three-point range during the tournament.
After facing one pool-play challenge from Lithuania, the U.S. cruised through the medal round, setting itself up for a gold medal-game clash with Spain in a rematch of the 2008 Olympic title tilt. In a game that featured 16 lead changes and six ties, the U.S. never saw its lead dip below six points in the final 8:46 on the way to a 107-100 victory.
Krzyzewski closed out his second quadrennial in charge of the USA Men's Senior National Team in the midst of a 50-game winning streak.
2013
The U.S. dropped a 112-98 decision to the World Select Team in the 2013 Nike Hoop Summit, but it wasn't for lack of trying on Parker's part. The Duke incoming freshman dropped a team-high 22 points, including 10 in the final 10 minutes to try to spark a U.S. rally, and added seven rebounds on the afternoon.
Things took a turn for the better on May 23, 2013, when it was announced that Krzyzewski would lead the USA Basketball Senior National Team for a third quadrennial from 2013-16.
In June 2013, the third installment of the FIBA Americas U16 Championship finished with the same result as the first two – gold medals for USA Basketball. Still a few years away from teaming up at Duke, Harry Giles and Jayson Tatum earned their first international medals in Maldonado, Uruguay, while helping Team USA qualify for the 2014 FIBA U17 World Championship.
Tatum averaged 10.0 points and 4.6 rebounds in the five games as the U.S. scored 106.8 points per game and established an average winning margin of 53.4 points. Giles sustained an injury in the team's second game and missed the remainder of the tournament, but averaged 7.0 points and 5.5 rebounds in limited action.
2014
The summer of 2014 was full of gold medals for USA Basketball, and to no surprise, there was a distinct Duke influence behind each one.
The trio of Jones, Okafor and Winslow got things started when they powered the U.S. to an 84-73 win at the Nike Hoop Summit in Portland. Jones scored 13 points, 10 of which came in the fourth quarter, and added game highs of six assists and five steals. Okafor turned in a double-double with 14 points and 10 boards, while Winslow came off the bench to knock down 7-of-15 shots and finish with a team-high 16 points.
Jones and Winslow were back in USA Basketball mode just weeks later for the FIBA Americas U18 Championship in Colorado Springs, where they were joined by future Blue Devils Chase Jeter and Luke Kennard.
Jones and Winslow were two of the three players named captains of the 2014 U18 National Team.
The U.S. put forth a dominating showing on home soil, trailing for just 4:05 over the course of the five-game tournament and outscoring teams by an average of 54.8 points to win the gold medal. The tournament result also qualified the U.S. for the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championship.
Jones averaged 8.2 points, a team-best 6.4 assists and 2.0 steals per game, while Winslow tallied 12.4 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.0 steals per contest. Kennard was lights out from beyond the arc in his USA Basketball debut, making 15-of-29 attempts (.517) and averaging 13.8 points per game. Jeter saw action in all five games and put up averages of 6.6 points and 4.4 rebounds.
There was one more championship to be won on the junior level in 2014, and Giles and Tatum made sure the U.S. won it at the FIBA U17 World Championship in Dubai.
Giles started all seven games for Team USA, putting up 10.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and a team-leading 2.3 steals per game. On a team that shot .515 as a group for the tournament, Tatum finished as the third-leading scorer with an average of 11.3 points per game. He ranked second on the team in steals at 1.9 per outing.
The 2014 FIBA World Cup (formerly the FIBA World Championship) was a fitting culmination of one of the best years in the Duke/USA Basketball relationship.
Heading up a squad absent of several U.S. Senior National Team mainstays, Krzyzewski led a young and hungry Team USA to a 9-0 record and its second consecutive gold medal at the event. With the win, the U.S. became just the third nation to win the FIBA world title in back-to-back years since the event was first played in 1950.
The Americans ran through the field in Spain, shooting .524 from the floor and .403 from outside the arc to score 104.6 points and win by 33.0 points on average. The U.S. led the tournament in scoring, scoring margin, field goal percentage, rebounding (44.8), rebound margin (+9.0), assists (20.4), steals (12.1) and turnover margin (+8.3).
Irving was the star of the tournament in his first appointment to Senior National Team, collecting tournament MVP honors after averaging 12.1 points, a team-leading 3.6 assists and 1.9 steals. He shot .563 (45-of-80) from the floor and .609 (14-of-23) from three-point range in the nine games.
Irving led the U.S. with 18 points and four assists in its win over Lithuania in the semis and followed that up with a team-high 26 points in the final against Serbia to clinch the gold medal.
The World Cup also saw Plumlee make his first appearance with the Senior National Team. Playing in all nine games as a reserve, he averaged 2.3 points and 2.0 rebounds.
Capel joined Krzyzewski on the U.S. staff for the World Cup as a staff assistant.
At the end of the year, Irving was named USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year for his efforts in the 2014 FIBA World Cup.
2015
At the 2015 Nike Hoop Summit, Kennard and Jeter once again found themselves in a USA uniform while Brandon Ingram made his USA Basketball debut in a 103-101 loss to the World Select Team.
Kennard was a force for the U.S., coming off the bench for a team-high 22 points on 9-of-18 shooting. He and Jeter, who also scored five points, shared the team lead with five rebounds on the afternoon. Ingram scored a dozen points, making 5-of-6 shots from the floor, in 26 minutes.
For the third year in a row, Giles and Tatum collaborated to help the U.S. capture a gold medal, this time doing so in Greece at the FIBA U19 World Championship. Anchoring a team that forced its opponents to shoot just .339 from the floor and .244 from beyond the arc, the duo combined to average 27.9 points, 15.2 rebounds and 2.7 steals per game.
Giles was named to the All-Tournament Team after averaging a double-double of 14.0 points and 10.6 rebounds, sharing the team lead in scoring and pacing the squad on the glass. Tatum ranked third on the team in scoring with an average of 13.9 points, while also posting averages of 4.6 rebounds and 2.1 assists.
2016
Giles and Tatum carried their winning ways into the 2016 Nike Hoop Summit, where they were joined by fellow incoming Duke freshmen Frank Jackson and Marques Bolden in a 101-67 rout of the World Select Team in Portland. The U.S. set a Hoop Summit record for margin of victory with the blistering performance.
Tatum earned a place in the starting lineup and produced 14 points and four rebounds. Jackson came off the bench to dish out three assists, while Bolden added three points and two boards. Giles was unable to play due to injury.
Later this summer, Krzyzewski will join Henry Iba as the only men to coach the U.S. in three Olympic Games when he leads the Senior National Team to Rio de Janeiro. In his tenure as head coach of the Senior National Team, Krzyzewski has guided the U.S. to a 75-1 (.987) record, including an active 63-game winning streak, and six total medals.
Irving has been named one of 31 finalists for the 2016 U.S. Olympic team and will look to become the sixth Duke player to represent the United States on the basketball court at the Olympics.
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