Finalists announced for Team USA's U19 roster for 2025 FIBA Men’s World Cup

At least 31 players began at training camp in Colorado Springs in the last week to compete for spots on the roster for Team USA ahead of the 2025 FIBA U19 Men’s World Cup. Now, on Friday, the United States has announced the 12 finalists who made the cut

USA Basketball announced the dozen players on the roster who will go to compete and represent the country in Lausanne, Switzerland, from June 28th through July 6th this morning. It consists of a collection of rising sophomores in college, incoming freshmen, and members of the recruiting class in 2026.

Mikel Brown Jr. – Louisville Cardinals
AJ Dybantsa – BYU Cougars
Caleb Holt
Daniel Jacobsen – Purdue Boilermakers
Jasper Johnson – Kentucky Wildcats
JJ Mandaquit – Washington Huskies
Morez Johnson Jr. – Michigan Wolverines
Nik Khamenia – Duke Blue Devils
Brandon McCoy Jr.
Koa Peat – Arizona Wildcats
Jordan Smith Jr.
Tyran Stokes

Arizona’s Tommy Lloyd, Texas Tech’s Grant McCasland, and Notre Dame’s Micah Shrewsberry will coach the team overseas after Nate Oats (Alabama), Mark Pope (Kentucky), Hubert Davis (North Carolina), and Damon Stoudemire (Georgia Tech) assisted on court during camp. Now, they and the twelve players will head to Switzerland, beginning play in Group D against Australia, France, and Cameroon.

Of the dozen players, a pair are sophomores for next season, half are incoming freshmen with six, and four are rising seniors in the class of ’26. Also, as Team USA noted, each of the 12 has competed in their junior national team’s program before, with 19 gold medals won amongst them combined.

Johnson Jr. and Jacobsen are the two second-year college players on the roster. Johnson averaged 7.0 points (64.2% FG), 6.7 rebounds, and 1.1 blocks per game for Illinois last season before being a Top-40 transfer in the portal this past cycle, eventually committing to Michigan. Jacobsen then appeared in a pair of games, posting 6.5 points (66.7% FG), 3.5 rebounds, and 1.5 blocks for the Boilermakers before missing the remainder of the season with a broken tibia.

Brown Jr., Dybantsa, Johnson, Mandaquit, Khamenia, and Peat are the six members of the recruiting class in 2025. Dybantsa, the No. 1 overall recruit in the class and a Five-Star+ prospect, along with five-stars themselves in Brown Jr. and Peat, finished ranked in the Top 10 nationally. Khamenia, Johnson, and Mandaquit were all then four-stars, with each of the six being in the Top 50.

Finally, Holt, McCoy Jr., Smith Jr., and Stokes finished out the roster from out of ’26. They’re each in the top five in the next recruiting cycle with Stokes at No. 1 overall and McCoy Jr at No. 2 overall, being two of the three prospects ranked as Five-Star+, while Smith Jr. and Holt are No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, as five-stars. None of the players has yet to commit anywhere in their individual recruitments.

All those ratings are per On3’s Industry Rankings for 2025 and 2026. The ranking is a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.

This roster, after competing with some of the best across those three classes, is full of young talent. They’ll now come together for the week-long event to play for a ninth gold medal at the event all-time, having medaled at twelve of the sixteen but not in the last edition, in the 2025 FIBA U19 Men’s World Cup.