{"id":779820,"date":"2026-07-05T03:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779820\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T03:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:42:07","slug":"former-iowa-guard-joins-jamaican-2027-fiba-basketball-world-cup-qualifying-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779820\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Iowa guard joins Jamaican 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifying roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated July 4, 2026, 7:56 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As former Iowa basketball star Drew Thelwell continues his professional journey with Pau-Lacq-Orthez in France, the 6-foot-2 guard has been named to Jamaica\u2019s qualifying team for the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In his first season in France&#8217;s E\u0301lite 2 league, the former Hawkeye recorded 10.9 points, 1.8 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.2 steals in 31 games played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In his one season with the Hawkeyes in the 2024-25 campaign, Thelwell averaged 9.5 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.2 assists across 29 games. He shot around 50% from the field and a strong 41.2% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As Jamaica tries to qualify for the 2027 FIBA World Cup, Thelwell will certainly help with his superb outside shooting presence and ability to generate scoring opportunities for teammates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HawkeyesWire\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@HawkeyesWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/@HawkeyesWire\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes and opinions. Follow Scout on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpringgateNews\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@SpringgateNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated July 4, 2026, 7:56 p.m. CT As former Iowa basketball star Drew Thelwell continues his professional journey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[202558,64,63,726,369301,85,369302,262331,204884,224210,271720,257369,222354,369304,369305,203140,224218,224225,369303,369306,257368,224207,202563,240255,203139,202561],"class_list":["post-779820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-accessfree","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sourcehawkeyes-wire","tag-sports","tag-sstssportscollegehawkeyesmens-basketball","tag-sstsnmens-basketball","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagbig-10-hub","tag-tagbig-ten-conference-mens-basketball","tag-tagcollege-basketball","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagfiba-basketball-world-championships","tag-taginternational-basketball-federation","tag-taginternational-sports-competitions","tag-tagiowa","tag-tagiowa-hawkeyes","tag-tagiowa-hawkeyes-mens-basketball","tag-tagjamaica","tag-tagmens-college-basketball","tag-tagncaa-big-ten-conference","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsmg-timely","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779820","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=779820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}