Under-18 Australian Championships <\/a>leading scorers Lucas Byrne and Daisy Hocking have been included in the 17-player 2026 FIBA Under-17 World Cup squads.<\/p>\nVictoria Country’s Byrne won the men’s scoring title with 22.8 points per game while South Australia Country’s Hocking finished second at 18.4 points per game in Queensland last weekend.<\/p>\n
The Crocs are building toward the World Cup in T\u00fcrkiye between June 27 to July 5, 2026. Their camp will be from May 4 to 7 at the AIS\u00a0in Canberra while Sapphires will head to Czechia between July 11 and 19 for 2026 FIBA U17 Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n
The Sapphires camp is also at the AIS\u00a0but a couple of days later \u2013\u00a0May 11 to 14, 2026. Both squads will be cut to 12.<\/p>\n
2026 Under-17 Australian Sapphires World Cup SquadAnnaliese Elliott (South Australia Metro)\u200dDaisy Hocking (South Australia Country)\u200dEliza Ashby (Victoria Country)\u200dEliza Shanahan (Victoria Metro)\u200dIsabel Smith (Queensland North)\u200dJade SherringtonJasmine Jones (Victoria Metro)Jay Sebasio (Queensland South)Jemyma Manyok (Queensland South)Lily Mapp (Queensland North)Maddison Reisinger (Queensland South)Madi Ryan (Victoria Metro)Marianela Fakalata (Victoria Metro)\u200dOlivia Olechnowicz (Queensland South)\u200dSophie Richardson (Victoria Metro)\u200dVanessa Tavete (Victoria Metro)\u200dMatilda Trout (Victoria Metro)2026 Under-17 Australian Crocs World Cup SquadAhmet Yahya Basaran (Victoria Metro)Alexander Edwards (Western Australia Metro)Alexander Mabbott (Victoria)\u200dAndrew Watene (Queensland South)\u200dAntonio Browne (New South Wales Metro)\u200dAwak Machar (South Australia Metro)\u200dEmin Joldic (New South Wales Metro)Isaiah Jorgenson (Queensland South)John Aryang (Western Australia Metro)Josh McCann (Victoria Metro)Keenan Lawrence-Williams (South Australia Metro)Lucas Byrne (Victoria Country)Luke Paul (Western Australia Metro)Riak Akhuar (Victoria Metro)Riley Saville (New South Wales Country)Tom Dammers (Victoria Metro)William Hamilton (Victoria Country)Crocs prospects dominate Under-18 Nationals stat leaders<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s U17 Crocs pipeline translated directly to production at the U18 Nationals, with multiple squad members leading or ranking across key categories.<\/p>\n
Scoring leadersLucas Byrne (Victoria Country) \u2013 22.8 ppg (No. 1 overall)Isaiah Jorgenson (Queensland South) \u2013 19.2 ppg (No. 2)ReboundingAhmet Yahya Basaran (Victoria Metro) \u2013 9.6 rpg (No. 2)Lucas Byrne (Victoria Country) \u2013 9.3 rpg (No. 3)Playmaking impactAndrew Watene (Queensland South) \u2013 5.8 apg (No. 1 overall)Luke Paul (Western Australia Metro) \u2013 5.0 apg (No. 3)Antonio Browne (New South Wales Metro) \u2013 4.8 apg (No. 5)Defensive disruptionRiley Saville (New South Wales Country) \u2013 2.8 spg (No. 2)Lucas Byrne (Victoria Country) \u2013 2.5 spg (No. 5)Shooting efficiencyAntonio Browne (New South Wales Metro) \u2013 95.0% FT (No. 1 overall)Josh McCann (Victoria Metro) \u2013 84.2% FT (No. 2)Andrew Watene (Queensland South) \u2013 82.4% FT (No. 3)Luke Paul (Western Australia Metro) \u2013 80.8% FT (No. 5)Perimeter shootingAndrew Watene (Queensland South) \u2013 47.6% 3PT (No. 1 overall)Scoring volumeLucas Byrne (Victoria Country) \u2013 137 total points (No. 1 overall)William Hamilton (Victoria Country) \u2013 97 points (No. 4)Isaiah Jorgenson (Queensland South) \u2013 96 points (No. 5)Sapphires stamp authority across 2026 Under-18 Nationals leaderboards<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s U17 Sapphires prospects weren\u2019t just competing at the U18 Nationals \u2014 they were driving production across every major statistical category.<\/p>\n
Scoring leadersDaisy Hocking (South Australia Country) \u2013 18.4 ppg (No. 2 overall)Annaliese Elliott (South Australia Metro) \u2013 17.0 ppg (No. 3)Lily Mapp (Queensland North) \u2013 17.0 ppg (No. 4)ReboundingLily Mapp (Queensland North) \u2013 12.2 rpg (No. 1 overall)Daisy Hocking (South Australia Country) \u2013 9.6 rpg (No. 3)Matilda Trout (Victoria Metro) \u2013 8.4 rpg (No. 4)Madison Ryan (Victoria Metro) \u2013 8.0 rpg (No. 5)Playmaking impactIsabel Smith (Queensland North) \u2013 4.8 apg (No. 1 overall)Jay Sebasio (Queensland South) \u2013 4.6 apg (No. 2)Olivia Olechnowicz (Queensland South) \u2013 4.0 apg (No. 3)Daisy Hocking (South Australia Country) \u2013 3.8 apg (No. 4)Defensive disruptionDaisy Hocking (South Australia Country) \u2013 4.0 spg (No. 1 overall)Jasmine Jones (Victoria Metro) \u2013 3.6 spg (No. 2)Madison Ryan (Victoria Metro) \u2013 3.0 spg (No. 3)Matilda Trout (Victoria Metro) \u2013 3.0 spg (No. 5)Shooting efficiencyIsabel Smith (Queensland North) \u2013 83.3% FT (No. 1 overall)Lily Mapp (Queensland North) \u2013 77.8% FT (No. 3)Perimeter shootingVanessa Tavete (Victoria Metro) \u2013 51.3% 3PT (No. 1 overall)Marianela Fakalata (Victoria Metro) \u2013 40.0% 3PT (No. 4)Scoring volumeDaisy Hocking (South Australia Country) \u2013 92 total points (No. 2 overall)Annaliese Elliott (South Australia Metro) \u2013 85 points (No. 3)Lily Mapp (Queensland North) \u2013 85 points (No. 4)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leading U18 scorers Lucas Byrne and Daisy Hocking headline Australia\u2019s U17 World Cup squads. 2026 Under-18 Australian Championships…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-622704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622704","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=622704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}