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Dan Mavraides '11, left, and the U.S. team won the tournament at the Giants of 3x3 Basketball event in Brazil last weekend.
Mavraides '11, Team USA 3x3 Basketball Team Win in Brazil
February 06, 2018 | Men's Basketball
Dan Mavraides '11 and his Team USA 3x3 basketball teammates won twice in Rio de Janeiro over the weekend to win the Gigantes tournament last weekend.
Mavraides, a career 1,000-point scorer who helped Princeton to the 2011 Ivy League title, played alongside Northwestern alum Craig Moore, Lehigh alum Zahir Carrington, and Brown alum Damon Huffman. Moore also played for Princeton coach Mitch Henderson when Henderson was an assistant at Northwestern and later served as Princeton's Director of Basketball Operations.Â
The event in Brazil put the U.S. team against Serbia, which knocked out the U.S. team in the quarterfinal on the way to the 2017 FIBA 3x3 World Cup title in France, and the Americans won the rematch 21-17. The U.S. then took on one of the Brazilian teams in the event, winning 22-19 to take the event title last Sunday in Train Square outside Nilton Santos Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
Mavraides earned MVP honors on the way to helping the team with the $10,000 prize, and the foursome will play again in April at the USA National Tournament at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The winner of that event will represent the U.S. in competition, as Mavraides, Moore, Carrington and Huffman have for the past year.
The 3x3 format, in addition to having three players and one substitute on the team, is played until one team hits 21 points or the 10-minute game clock is completed. The format has also been included for the 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo.Â
Mavraides and the U.S. team posted photos from the event on the team's Instagram account here and the FIBA recap of the event can be found here.
Mavraides, a career 1,000-point scorer who helped Princeton to the 2011 Ivy League title, played alongside Northwestern alum Craig Moore, Lehigh alum Zahir Carrington, and Brown alum Damon Huffman. Moore also played for Princeton coach Mitch Henderson when Henderson was an assistant at Northwestern and later served as Princeton's Director of Basketball Operations.Â
The event in Brazil put the U.S. team against Serbia, which knocked out the U.S. team in the quarterfinal on the way to the 2017 FIBA 3x3 World Cup title in France, and the Americans won the rematch 21-17. The U.S. then took on one of the Brazilian teams in the event, winning 22-19 to take the event title last Sunday in Train Square outside Nilton Santos Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
Mavraides earned MVP honors on the way to helping the team with the $10,000 prize, and the foursome will play again in April at the USA National Tournament at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The winner of that event will represent the U.S. in competition, as Mavraides, Moore, Carrington and Huffman have for the past year.
The 3x3 format, in addition to having three players and one substitute on the team, is played until one team hits 21 points or the 10-minute game clock is completed. The format has also been included for the 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo.Â
Mavraides and the U.S. team posted photos from the event on the team's Instagram account here and the FIBA recap of the event can be found here.
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