USA BASKETBALL HISTORY
USA MEN’S WORLD CUP QUALIFYING FEBRUARY 2022 RESULTS
WASHINGTON, D.C. • JULY 1-4, 2022
Defeating Puerto Rico 93-76 and Mexico 89-67, the USA won a pair of crucial home victories in the second window of FIBA World Cup Quali- fying play. Trailing 44-42 at halftime, the USA men outscored Puerto Rico 32-14 in the third quarter to take control of the game on the way to a 93-76 win on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C. Joe Johnson led the USA with 18 points, Matt Ryan added 15 points on 5-of-8 shooting from 3-point, Justin Wright-Foreman scored 13 points and Juwan Morgan contributed 12 points. Sixty-one of the USA’s 93 points came from its bench. Puerto Rico ended the first half scoring with a tip-in to make it 44-42 at halftime but the USA opened the second half with 3s from David Stockton and Wright-Foreman to go ahead 48-44. The USA raced to 19 points from seven different scorers to lead 74-58 at the end of the period. The USA never trailed while cruising to an 89-67 win over previously undefeated Mexico on Feb. 27 at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Washington, D.C. Galloway led the USA with 16 points, Stockton had 15, Johnson scored 14 points, Ryan added 12 points and Wright-Fore- man rounded out the double-digit scorers with 10 points. Harper had six assists, while Bell was the top rebounder with seven boards. The USA gave up only seven points to Mexico in the second quarter, while Johnson scored eight of the USA’s 24 points in the period, and the USA lead ballooned to 48-21 at halftime. By the midway point, the USA had committed just two turnovers. Mexico had a 10-0 run early in the third quarter that helped it trim the margin by four points in the period, but the USA still was comfortably in the lead, 68-45, headed into the fourth. The USA built its biggest lead in the fourth quarter, 89-58 at 4:12, but Mexico put the last nine points of the game on the board to reach the final.
FEBRUARY 2022 USA MEN’S WORLD CUP QUALIFYING TEAM ROSTER
FEB. 2022 USA RESULTS (2-0)
NAME
POS HGT WGT AGE CURRENT TEAM/SCHOOL
HOMETOWN
Puerto Rico
W, 93-76 W, 89-67
Mexico
Jordan Bell Tarik Black
F C G G
6-8 6-9 6-6 6-1 6-0 6-7 6-6 6-7 6-7 5-11 6-3 6-6 6-2
216 250 190 200 175 240 220 232 215 165 209 210 190
27 30 23 30 24 40 28 24 24 30 24 27 24
Fort Wayne Mad Ants/Oregon Grand Rapids Gold/Kansas
Long Beach, CA Memphis, TN Baton Rouge, LA Mableton, GA Little Rock, AR San Antonio, TX Saginaw, MI
Brian Bowen II
G/F
Iowa Wolves/N/A
Langston Galloway
College Park Skyhawks/Saint Joseph’s Birgingham Squadron/Auburn
Jared Harper Joe Johnson George King Juwan Morgan David Stockton Rayjon Tucker Paul Watson Matt Ryan
F
Free Agent/Arkansas
G/F
Agua Caliente Clippers/Colorado
F F
Maine Celtics/Indiana
Waynesville, MO Cortlandt Manor, NY
Grand Rapids Gold/Chattanooga Memphis Hustle/Gonzaga Wisconsin Herd/Little Rock Free Agent/Fresno State Birmingham Squadron/Hofstra
G G
Spokane, WA Charlotte, NC Phoenix, AZ New York, NY
F
Justin Wright-Foreman
G
Head Coach: Jim Boylen Assistant Coach: Ty Ellis Assistant Coach: Othella Harrington Team Physician: Stephen Foley, Sanford Health (Sioux Falls, SD) Athletic Trainer: Ed Lacerte, ProSports Therapy, Inc. (Waltham and Westford, MA) Team Scout: Brandon Bailey Video Coordinator: Cole Miller
FEBRUARY 2022 USA MEN’S WORLD CUP QUALIFYING TEAM CUMULATIVE STATISTICS
NAME
G/S
FGM-A
PCT
3PM-A
PCT
FTM-A
PCT
REB
PTS
AST
BLK
STL
Jphnson
2/2 2/0 2/2 2/2 2/0 2/0 2/1 2/2 2/0 1/0 2/1
13- 24 9- 18 8- 13 7- 14 7- 11 8- 12 3- 15 3- 7 3- 6 0- 4 1- 4 0- 1
.542 .500 .615 .500 .636 .667 .200 .429 .500 .000 .250 .000
2- 10 9- 18 5- 9 4- 11 5- 7 0- 1 0- 7 2- 6 0- 0 0- 3 1- 4 0- 1
.200 .500 .556 .364 .714 .000 .000 .333 .000 .250 .000 .---
4- 6 0- 1 2- 2 4- 4 2- 2 1- 2 8- 9 4- 6 0- 2 4- 4 1- 2 0- 0
.667 .000
8/ 4.0 6/ 3.0 4/ 2.0 7/ 3.5 4/ 2.0 15/ 7.5 6/ 3.0 9/ 4.5 7/ 3.5 2/ 1.0 2/ 2.0 0/ 0.0
32/ 16.0 27/ 13.5 23/ 11.5 22/ 11.0 21/ 10.5 17/ 8.5 14/ 7.0 12/ 6.0 6/ 3.0 4/ 2.0 4/ 4.0 0/ 0.0
8 0 3 5 7 5 3 0 2
0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 1 2 6 0 2 1 0 1 0
Ryan
Wright-Foreman 2/0
1.000 1.000 1.000 .500
Galloway Stockton Harper Morgan Black Tucker Bell Bowen II Watson King
.889 .667 .000
11
1.000 .500
0-
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0
DNP
USA OPP.
2 2
62-129 56-143
.481 .392
28- 77 12- 48
.364 .250
30- 40 10- 29
.750 .655
78/39.0 81/40.5
182/91.0 143/71.5
44 32
5 3
13
9
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