Georgia Tech guard Josh Okogie survived the first cut on USA Basketball’s roster for the FIBA U19 World Championship.
Okogie, a 6-foot-4 sophomore, is the first first Yellow Jacket to be invited to a USA Basketball training camp since Marcus Georges-Hunt and Robert Carter, Jr. participated in the 2013 U19 World Cup Team camp.
As a freshman, Okogie led the Yellow Jackets in scoring last season with 16.1 points, ranking 15th in the ACC in scoring. Okogie finished last season with the fifth-highest scoring average for a freshman in Tech history.
The first roster cut narrowed the roster from 26 basketball players aged 19-and-under to 18 players. Training at Colorado Springs’ United States Olympic Training Center will continue for the 18 remaining players through Sunday. The final 12-man roster will be cut on Sunday.
The United States, in the preliminary round’s Group D, will open play on July 1 against Iran, then face Angola on July 2 and Italy on July 4 in Cairo, Egypt.
Kentucky coach John Calipari will serve as head coach for the USA U19 World Cup team.
The finalists include seven college freshmen and 11 high school players.
The full roster can be found below.
- Bol Bol (Mater Dei H.S./Santa Ana, Calif.)
- Jordan Brown (Woodcreek H.S./Roseville, Calif.)
- Hamidou Diallo (University of Kentucky/Queens, NY)
- Carsen Edwards (Purdue/Atascocita, Texas)
- Kevin Huerter (Maryland/Clifton Park, N.Y.)
- Louis King (Hudson Catholic H.S./Columbus, N.J.)
- Kevin Knox II (Tampa Catholic H.S./Tampa, Fla.)
- Romeo Langford (New Albany H.S./New Albany, Ind.)
- Brandon McCoy (Cathedral Catholic H.S/San Diego, Calif.)
- Chuma Okeke (Westlake H.S./Atlanta, Ga.)
- Payton Pritchard (Oregon/West Linn, Ore.)
- Immanuel Quickly (John Carroll School/Bel Air, Md.)
- Cameron Reddish (Westtown School/Norristown, Pa.)
- Mitchell Robinson (Chalmette H.S./New Orleans, La.)
- Quinton Rose (Temple/Rochester, N.Y.)
- P.J. Washington (Findlay Prep/Las Vegas, Nev.)
- Austin Wiley(Auburn/Hoover, Ala.)
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