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Team USA Qualifies For Men’s And Women’s Olympic 3×3 Basketball Tournaments

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Team USA has qualified both a men’s and women’s team for the Olympic 3×3 Basketball for the 2024 games in Paris. FIBA announced the first three men’s teams and the first two women’s teams to qualify on Wednesday. The selection was based on the current FIBA World Ranking. In the men’s event, #1 Serbia and #3 China also qualified. Meanwhile, #1 China and hosts France qualified alongside Team USA.

The men’s team missed out on qualifying for the 2020 Games in Tokyo, the first Games to feature 3×3 basketball. However, a silver medal at the World Cup earlier this year and a gold medal at the Pan American Games last month helped secure qualification. “Making it to the Olympics, that’s what it’s been all about for us. It means a ton. The opportunity to be able to represent our country at the Olympics would be an amazing experience. I’ve been fortunate enough to represent our country a few times, but the Olympics is a whole different level,” said former NBA guard and longtime 3×3 player Jimmer Fredette. The women’s team are the defending Olympic champions and also won Pan Am gold last month.

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Who Has Qualified For Olympic 3×3 Basketball?

There are still five men’s places and four women’s places available for the 3×3 basketball event at Paris 2024. These places will be determined between now and the Games next July. Two places in each event will be determined by the Universality-Driven Qualifying Tournaments. These special tournaments are designed to allow teams who wouldn’t usually be given a chance due to their rating to compete. For example, one of the women’s tournaments will feature Mongolia.

Meanwhile, the remaining places will be decided in a more standard Olympic qualifying tournament. The participants in these events will taken from the FIBA World Rankings and will fill out the remaining places in both tournaments. “USA Basketball is extremely proud to qualify four basketball teams for Paris 2024,” “We look forward to watching all teams compete at the highest level with the goal of winning four Olympic gold medals,” USA Basketball CEO Jim Tooley said in a statement of the US’ 3×3 qualification. The US already has teams qualified for both 5×5 events.

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LSU’s Hailey Van Lith Named To 3×3 World Cup Team

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3×3 Basketball has taken off in a major way in recent years. Ice Cube currently runs The Big3, a 3×3 league stacked with former NBA talent. Meanwhile, the event made its Olympic debut at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, with Latvia and the USA taking the men’s and women’s gold medals respectively. The event will return for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France.

However, the 3×3 World Cup has taken place on a variety of schedules since 2012. Originally every two years, it became an annual event in 2016 until it was canceled due to the pandemic in 2020. The 2023 event is the second edition of the event to held after it was reinstated for 2022. Vienna, Austria will play host to this year’s events. Serbia, a five-time champion, enters as the defending men’s champions. Meanwhile, France enter as the women’s champions, having won their first title in 2022. It’s the sixth time the event has been held in Europe. The 2022 edition was held in Antwerp, Belgium.

Team USA Announces World Cup Rosters

The United States has become the first of the 20 participating nations to announce their eight-person roster for the World Cup. Each team has four members. On the men’s team, there is Canyon Barry, a former G-League player and son of Hall of Famer Rick Barry. Joining Barry is Jimmer Fredette, a former NBA journeyman who most recently played in China. Also on the roster is Kareem Maddox, a former Princeton standout, overseas player, and NPR producer. Completing the team is Dylan Travis, a 3×3 expert who won gold at the 3×3 AmeriCup in 2022. Team USA won the men’s event in 2019.

Meanwhile, the US women’s team is anchored by college stars. The biggest name to casual fans will be Hailey Van Lith, the Lousiville standout who recently transferred to LSU. However, there is also Cameron Brink, who currently serves as the defensive lynchpin at Stanford. Then there’s Cierra Burdick, a WNBA journeywoman who played 56 games over 6 years between 2015 and 2021. Burdick currently plays in Spain. Finally, there’s Linnae Harper, who has made 25 WNBA appearances since going undrafted in 2018. Team USA are two-time champions in the women’s event, taking home the gold in 2012 and 2014.

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