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Where the 2024 U.S. Olympic men's 3×3 basketball team played in college – NCAA.com
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The USA Basketball Committee has chosen four former NCAA athletes to represent the first-ever U.S. Olympic men’s 3×3 basketball team in the 2024 Paris Games.
The four players represent BYU, Florida, Princeton and Florida Southern.
The team is led by head coach Joe Lewandowski, who has been involved in the USA 3×3 program since 2012, earning seven gold medals, five silver medals and one bronze across men’s and women’s different age-grouped events. Lewandowski finished his own college playing career at Slippery Rock University in 1999.
The four-man squad won silver in the 2023 FIBA World Cup and will look to win the first-ever U.S. Olympic men’s 3×3 basketball gold medal after failing to qualify in the event’s debut at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Son of Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Rick Barry, Canyon played three seasons at the College of Charleston before a lone season at Florida as a graduate transfer studying nuclear engineering. As a Gator, Barry won the SEC Sixth Man of the Year as one of Florida’s leading goals scorers off the bench. He also broke the program record for consecutive made free throws with 42. After a stint of playing abroad in Finland and Czech Republic, Barry joined the U.S. 3×3 basketball program in 2019. He’s won gold at the 2019 Amsterdam World Cup, silver in the 2023 Vienna World Cup and gold in the 2023 Chile Pan American Games.
KEY DETAILS
School: College of Charleston (2013-16), Florida (2016-17)
Career averages: 12.3 PPG, 3.5 RPG, 1.2 APG, 80.8 FT%
Former Pro teams: Salon Vilpas (2017-18), Basket Brno (2017-18), Iowa Wolves (2018-22)
G-league averages: 9.1 PPG, 38.7 3P%, 47.2 FG%
CAREER HONORS
Fredette played all four years at BYU but is most known for his standout senior season when he won the Naismith College Player of the Year honors and was the nation’s leading scorer with 28.9 points per game. That year, “Jimmermania” took Provo by storm as Fredette led the Cougars to the Sweet Sixteen.
KEY DETAILS
School: BYU
Career averages: 18.7 PPG, 3.7 APG, 2.6 RPG, 296 career 3-pointers
Former NBA teams: Kings (2011-13), Bulls (2013-14), Pelicans (2014-15), Knicks (2015-16), Suns (2018-19)
NBA career averages: 6.0 ppg, 87.9 FT%, 37.2 3-point %
CAREER HONORS
Maddox played four years at Princeton, where he won 2011 Ivy League Defensive Player of the year his senior year. He also recorded 108 career blocks. After college, Maddox played abroad in Netherlands and the UK before taking a break from basketball and pursuing a career in podcast production. He then returned to the sport and earned a gold medal at the Men’s 3×3 Pan American Games in 2019. Maddox was a member of the USA 3×3 men’s national team that fell short of Olympic qualification in Tokyo.
KEY DETAILS
School: Princeton
Career averages: 7.9 PPG, 4.4 RPG, 1.4 APG, 108 career blocks
Former pro teams: Landstede Hammers (2011-12), Newcastle Eagles (2012-13), Miasto Szkla Krosno (2016-17)
Pro career stats: 6.0 ppg, 87.9 FT%, 37.2 3P%
CAREER HONORS
Travis played basketball in the NAIA at Midland University (2012-13), in the NJCAA at Iowa Central Community College (2013-14) and finally DII Florida Southern (2014-16). The 6-foot-3 guard led Florida Southern to the 2015 NCAA DII men’s basketball championship, scoring 18 points and going 4 of 6 from the charity stripe to take the 77-62 win over Indiana (Pa.). Following his collegiate career, Travis made his national team debut as a member of the 2022 USA 3×3 Men’s AmeriCup team. Since then, he’s won a silver medal at the 2023 FIBA 3×3 World Cup and gold medals at the 2023 Pan American Games 3×3 and the 2022 FIBA 3×3 AmeriCup.
KEY DETAILS
School: Florida Southern (DII)
NCAA DII career averages: 15.3 PPG, 5,2 RPG, 3.2 APG, 81.6 FT%
Former teams: Played overseas in Germany and Australia
CAREER HONORS
NCAA Student-Athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics 🥇🥈🥉 
College careers of NCAA student-athletes at 2024 Paris Olympics:
🏀 Basketball: Men’s team USA | Women’s team USA | Women’s 3×3 | Men’s 3×3
🏐 Volleyball: U.S. Women’s | ⛳️ Golf: USA men’s | USA women’s
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📺 WATCH: College highlights of former-NCAA Olympians:
🤼♂️ Wrestling: Kyle Dake | Zain Retherford | Aaron Brooks
🏐 Women’s volleyball: Kathryn Plummer | Dana Rettke | Avery Skinner
🏀 Men’s hoops: Steph Curry | Devin Booker | Anthony Davis
🏀 Women’s hoops: Sabrina Ionescu | Kelsey Plum | A’ja Wilson
⛳️ Men’s golf: Scottie Scheffler
🔥History: 2022 NCAA student-athlete Olympic medal winners
Maria Howell is the lead reporter for NCAA men’s and women’s soccer. She is a 2022 graduate from Georgia State University where she played four years of Division I soccer. Howell is a passionate storyteller who aims to capture the humanness of athletes, fans and coaches.
