COLORADO SPRINGS – University of Colorado junior-to-be Spencer Dinwiddie is one of 29 players invited to attend the 2013 USA Basketball Men’s World University Games Team training camp at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, June 24-30 in Colorado Springs.

The USA Basketball Men’s Junior National Team Committee issued the invitations.

Dinwiddie, a 6-6, 200-pound point-guard is one of three players selected from the Pac-12 Conference and the first CU player to invited as an undergraduate since Chauncey Billups at the 1995 COPABA under 21 World Championship Qualifying Trials.Dinwiddie joins fellow conference players Josh Huestis and Chasson Randle from Stanford.

Dinwiddie, a 2013 All-Pac-12 Conference first team selection has played every game (69) and was a key contributor this past season helping the Buffaloes to their second consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance. He averaged a team-best 15.3 points per game, in addition leading CU in assists (99, 3.0) and free throw percentage (82.5%).

His 505 points during his sophomore campaign ranks ninth among all CU sophomores.  Of Dinwiddie’s 505 points, 198 of them came from the free throw, the second most total from the charity stripe in school history. In his two years, Dinwiddie has helped CU to a 45-24 record (.652) with a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances and the 2012 Pac-12 Tournament championship.

CU head coach Tad Boyle is also one three court coaches selected for the training camp along with Jim Kessler of Grace College (NAIA) and Matt Matheny from Elon University.

“The committee has assembled one of the strongest World University Games training camp rosters USA Basketball has ever had,” said Jim Boeheim, head coach at Syracuse University and chair of the USA Men’s Junior National Team Committee. “It includes some of the top players in college basketball, several of whom have international experience. Selecting the players for the final roster is going to be a real challenge.”

The 2013 World University Games (WUGs) are scheduled to be played July 6-17 in Kazan, Russia. Davidson College’s Bob McKillop will lead the USA, with assistant coaches John Beilein of the University of Michigan and the University of South Carolina’s Frank Martin.

Twenty-four players took home end of the year conference honors and 29 players represent 24 schools featuring teammates from Duke (Cook and Hood), Indiana (Ferrell and Sheehy), Iowa (Marble and White), New Mexico (Kirk and Williams), Notre Dame (Atkins and Grant) and Stanford (Huestis and Randle).

The Big East has six schools with players expected to compete at training camp; five schools from the Big Ten list on the roster; the Atlantic Coast is represented by three schools each; the Big 12, Mountain West, The Pac-12 each feature two schools participating in training camp; and represented by one school apiece are the Atlantic-10, Missouri Valley and West Coast conferences.

Finalists for the team are expected to be announced on June 27 or 28, and the 12-member roster will be announced prior to the team’s departure for Russia on July 1.
In addition to chair and NCAA representative Boeheim, the 2013-16 USA Men’s Junior National Team Committee includes NCAA appointees McKillop, Matt Painter (Purdue University) and Lorenzo Romar (University of Washington), as well as athlete representative Curtis Sumpter, a member of the 2011 USA Pan American Games Team and the 2004 USA U20 National Team.

World University Games
The United States has claimed 19 medals in the World University Games since beginning play in 1965, and has captured a record 13 golds, three silvers and three bronze medals in the 20 WUGs in which a USA Basketball men’s squad has competed. The USA men own a stellar 138-9 record in WUGs play, and the U.S. captured six of the first seven gold medals awarded in the WUGs basketball competition, including six consecutive gold medals from 1989 through 1999. In 2001 the USA fell to host China, which featured half of its 2000 Olympic team, including Yao Ming, Menk Bateer and Wang ZhiZhi, by a single point in the semifinal and finished with the bronze. The USA again captured the gold medal in 2005 and most recently, finished in fifth place with a 7-1 record after falling to Lithuania 76-74 in the 2011 quarterfinals.

Eighteen players who have represented the USA in the WUGs have gone on to compete in the Olympic Games, including Ray Allen (1995), Stacey Augmon (1989), Charles Barkley (1983), Larry Bird (1977), Bill Bradley (1965), Quinn Buckner (1973), Tom Burleson (1973), Ken Davis (1970), Tim Duncan (1995), Phil Hubbard (1977), Allen Iverson (1995), Mitch Kupchak (1973), Karl Malone (1983), Michael Redd (1999), Mitch Richmond (1987), Michael Silliman (1967), Steve Smith (1989) and Jo Jo White (1967).

USA Basketball
Based in Colorado Springs, Colo., USA Basketball is a nonprofit organization and the national governing body for men’s and women’s basketball in the United States. As the recognized governing body for basketball in the U.S. by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), USA Basketball is responsible for the selection, training and fielding of USA teams that compete in FIBA sponsored international competitions, as well as for some national competitions.

During the 2009-12 quadrennium, 1,273 men and women players and 235 coaches participated in USA Basketball, including USA Basketball teams and trials, and USA Basketball 3×3 FIBA championships.

USA Basketball men’s and women’s teams between 2009-12 compiled an impressive 264-35 win-loss record in FIBA and FIBA Americas competitions, the Pan American Games, the World University Games, the Nike Hoop Summit and in exhibition games.

USA teams are the current men’s and women’s champions in the Olympics; men’s and women’s FIBA World Championships (Basketball World Cup); women’s FIBA U19 World Championship; men’s and women’s FIBA U17 World Championships; men’s and women’s U18 and U16 FIBA Americas Championships, and FIBA 3×3 Women’s World Championship and FIBA 3×3 Women’s U18 World Championship.  USA Basketball also currently ranks No. 1 in all five of FIBA’s world ranking categories, including combined, men’s, women’s, boys and girls.  USA Basketball also currently ranks No. 1 in all five of FIBA’s world ranking categories, including combined, men’s, women’s, boys and girls.

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