Dybantsa was the MVP of the U19 World Cup but Brown was also in the All-Star Five after they led the Americans to the title.<\/p>\n
FIBA ball fans appreciated Brown’s quality before he’d launched a 3 at Louisville because of his performances for USA.<\/p>\n
He had 24 points in Group Phase wins over France and Cameroon, and 20 in the Quarter-Final triumph over Canada.<\/p>\n
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Brown and Dybantsa in All-Star 5 of U19 World Cup<\/p>\n
At the event, he made 20 of 42 (47.6%) of his shots from long range.<\/p>\n
Brown is now locked in with Louisville. He is averaging 17.3 points and 5.1 assists per game. Dybantsa, meanwhile, is averaging 24.5 points and 6.3 rebounds per game for BYU.<\/p>\n
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Brown’s 45 meant he broke the ACC record for a freshman that had been set just last year by 2022 FIBA U17 World Cup winner Cooper Flagg, when he played for Duke.<\/p>\n
Flagg, the top pick in last year’s NBA draft by the Dallas Mavericks, had 42 points in a win over Notre Dame.<\/p>\n
The late Unseld also scored 45 points in a game against Georgetown in 1967, but Louisville were not in the ACC at the time.<\/p>\n
Brown didn’t know about Unseld’s mark until someone told him during the game.<\/p>\n
“I definitely wasn’t thinking about the record until they [teammates] just came to me… and I’m like, ‘I’m going to go get it,'” said <\/a>Brown, a potential NBA lottery pick in 2026.<\/p>\n Related Articles<\/p>\n FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOUISVILLE (USA) – The Louisville Cardinals have had some iconic players on their rosters over the years in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-492275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}AJ Dybantsa: Talent with purpose, impact with humility
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