Several Providence Recruits Among 57 Invited to USA Basketball Junior National Team Minicamp

USA Basketball has become a big part of Providence’s basketball program because head coach Ed Cooley has taken on growing responsibilities with the organization over the last few years. In the summer of 2013 Cooley was a court coach during training camp in Colorado Springs. In 2014 Cooley was named as an assistant coach on Billy Donovan’s staff for the U18 USA National Team that participated and won gold at the 2014 FIBA Americas U18 Championship. After Donovan took the head coaching job with the Oklahoma City Thunder Cooley’s fellow assistant on Donovan’s U18 staff Sean Miller was promoted to head coach of the U19 team and Cooley remained as Miller’s assistant for the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championship. That squad also brought home the gold from Crete, Greece.

All signs point to Cooley continuing his involvement with USA Basketball so there’s a very real chance he could end up coaching some of the players who were invited to the 7th annual USA Basketball Junior National Team Minicamp to be held in Colorado Springs from October 2nd-4th. The minicamp will be run by Iowa City High School coach Don Showalter. Showalter has 7 gold medals as a head coach of USA Basketball Junior National teams since 2009.

Here are the players Providence is recruiting currently that will participate:

• 2017 – Mohammed Bamba
• 2017 – Trevon Duval
• 2018 – Montez Mathis
• 2018 – Naz Reid

Click here to see the full list of players.

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