U18 Americas Championship
Team USA's U18 squad played their fist game yesterday in the Americas championship. They faced Ecuador and squeaked out a 123-41 victory. Yup, you read that score correctly, the USA won by 82 points. The score was 55-17 at halftime.
Class of 2023 Duke recruit Jared McCain was one of the stars of the game. He scored 22 points in just over 21 minutes of action. He was only 2-8 on threes but hit 6-7 from 2 point land. Jared also had 3 steals and 3 assists (considering they had 123 points, the US team only had 32 assists). Jared produced an eye-popping plus/minus of +63.
Also worth noting that Carolina's GG Jackson had 20 points on 8-10 shooting as well as a team leading 12 rebounds. Carolina's Seth Trible, who will head over to Chapel Hill the moment things are done at this tournament had several high-flying moments that are lighting up twitter but only scored 8 points.
Game 2, against Puerto Rico (1-0 after beating Dominican Republic by 4 yesterday) is in just a few hours. Will be interesting to see what happens if it is a closer contest. Against Ecuador, every single player on the USA roster played between 17 and 21 minutes.