USA Basketball's official 12-man roster for the USA U19 World Championship Team includes incoming Sun Devil Jahii Carson as the only incoming freshman on the team
The USA squad will look to defend the gold medal won by the U.S. in 2009 at the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship. Carson, who signed with ASU in November of 2010, is a Parade Magazine 2011 second-team All-American and the 2010-11 Arizona Republic Big Schools Player of the Year.
Carson played at Mesa (Ariz.) High School the past two seasons where he set single-season scoring and assists marks in both his junior and senior (32.2 points and 3.6 assists) seasons. He led the team to a 21-6 mark in his senior season and the state Class 5A semifinals. He caught fire in the Class 5A Division I Tourmament, notching 37 points, 38 points and then a 58-point outburst in a semifinal loss. In a 2010 holiday tournament in New York, he set the tournament record with 109 points (36.3 ppg.) in three games.
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