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Team USA wins gold medal at FIBU U19 World Cup

On3 imageby:Sam Gillenwater•07/06/25•

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2025 Team USA (FIBA U19 World Cup - Gold Medal Team)
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16 teams spent the past week playing as part of the FIBA U19 World Cup in Switzerland. Following the championship game on Sunday, though, it is Team USA who will be bringing back gold to the United States.

Team USA won 109-76 this afternoon over Germany in the gold medal game of the FIBA U19 World Cup to cap off Fourth of July weekend. It is now the ninth time that the United States has won gold in this event’s history, which is two more than all of the other nations combined with no other country having more than two.

Team USA opened up the lead to what finished as the 33-point margin over the middle portion of the game. They turned a one-point advantage after the opening quarter into 27-point one by the fourth. In the title victory, Morez Johnson Jr. led the way with a double-double of 15 points (83.3% FG) and 10 rebounds. It was a balanced scoring effort from there too with Koa Peat, Mikel Brown Jr., AJ Dybantsa, Tyran Stokes, and Jordan Smith Jr. all scoring between a dozen to ten points apiece, with the team finishing shooting 56.6% from the field and 33.3% from three while holding this afternoon’s opponent to 41.8% overall and 28.6% from distance. They also won on the glass by 19 rebounds.

The United States went undefeated over seven games in the event from group play and into the tournament bracket. They won over Australia (88-73), France (108-77), and Cameroon (129-70) in Group D before defeating Jordan (140-67), Canada (108-102), New Zealand (120-64), and then finally Germany (109-76) to take the gold medal in Lausanne, Switzerland. They did so by leading in team scoring by far, with it being an all-time total for the event which had previously stood for nearly four decades, at an average of 114.6 points.

The dozen-man roster included some of the top young talent in the college and high school levels from the United States. Johnson Jr. (Michigan) and Daniel Jacobsen (Purdue) are rising sophomores while Brown Jr. (Louisville), Dybantsa (BYU), Jasper Johnson (Kentucky), JJ Mandaquit (Washington), Nikolas Khamenia (Duke), and Koa Peat (Arizona) are incoming freshman in college basketball. Caleb Holt, Brandon McCoy, Smith Jr., and Stokes are then all top-five recruits who are seniors in the upcoming cycle in 2026 per Rivals’ Industry Ranking. They were led by Tommy Lloyd (Arizona) as head coach with Grant McCasland (Texas Tech) and Micah Shrewsberry (Notre Dame) also assisting on staff.

Dybantsa, who also won TISSOT Most Valuable Player, and Brown Jr. were named to the All-Star Five for the FIBA U-19 World Cup. They were also alongside two from Germany who play or will play next season in the United States with Christian Anderson (Texas Tech) and Hannes Steinbach (Washington). That’s with Dybantsa averaging 14.3 points (50% FG), 2.3 assists, and 1.1 steals while Brown Jr. posted 14.9 points (46.7% FG, 47.6% 3PT on 2.9 makes) and 6.1 assists to lead Team USA. Peat, winning what’s a record now with three gold medals at events with FIBA, also put up 12.6 points (48.6% FG) and 6.9 rebounds.

These are some of the top young names, whether collegiately or at the prep level, in basketball. They can each now add a gold medal, or yet another gold medal for some, to their resumés with them returning to their respective schools stateside as the winners of the FIBA U19 World Cup.