COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Washington State men's basketball rising-sophomore, Malachi Flynn, is one of 28 of the nation's top 19-and-unders who have accepted invitations to attend the 2017 USA Basketball Men's U19 World Cup Team training camp June 18-25 at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., USA Basketball officially announced Thursday. Invitations were issued by the USA Basketball Men's Junior National Team Committee. Athletes eligible for this team must be 19 years old or younger (born on or after Jan. 1, 1998) and U.S. citizens.

"We're excited about the players who have accepted our invitation to attend the USA Men's U19 training camp," said Purdue head coach Matt Painter, chair of the selection committee. "We have an outstanding group of players, some of whom have prior USA Basketball experience, some with outstanding collegiate experience and some of the best high school players in America. It will be very competitive in tryouts to make the 12-person U19 team."

As the 2013 and 2015 FIBA U19 World Champion, the United States will look for a third-consecutive gold medal at the July 1-9 event in Cairo, Egypt.

Accepting invitations to attend the USA U19 World Cup Team training camp were:  Desmond Bane (TCU/Richmond, Ind.); Bol Bol (Mater Dei H.S./Santa Ana, Calif.); Marques Bolden (Duke/DeSoto, Texas); Chaundee Brown (First Academy/Orlando, Fla.); Devon Daniels (NC State/Battle Creek, Mich.); Hamidou Diallo (University of Kentucky/Queens, NY); Carsen Edwards (Purdue/Atascocita, Texas); Malachi Flynn (Washington State/Tacoma, Wash.); Kevin Huerter (Maryland/Clifton Park, N.Y.); Louis King (Hudson Catholic H.S./Columbus, N.J.); Kevin Knox II (Tampa Catholic H.S./Tampa, Fla.); Romeo Langford (New Albany H.S./New Albany, Ind.); Brandon McCoy (Cathedral Catholic H.S/San Diego, Calif.); De'Anthony Melton (Southern California/North Hollywood, Calif.); Charlie Moore (Kansas/Chicago, Ill.); Chuma Okeke (Westlake H.S./Atlanta, Ga.); Josh Okogie (Georgia Tech/Snellville, Ga.); Shamorie Ponds (St. John's/Brooklyn, N.Y.); Payton Pritchard (Oregon/West Linn, Ore.); Immanuel Quickly (John Carroll School/Bel Air, Md.); Cameron Reddish (Westtown School/Norristown, Pa.); Mitchell Robinson (Chalmette H.S./New Orleans, La.); Quinton Rose (Temple/Rochester, N.Y.); Jeremiah Tilmon II (La Lumiere H.S., Ind./East Saint Louis, Ill.); P.J. Washington (Findlay Prep/Las Vegas, Nev.); Austin Wiley (Auburn/Hoover, Ala.); Kris Wilkes (North Central H.S./Indianapolis, Ind.); and Trae Young (Norman North H.S./Norman, Okla.).

"This is very well deserved for Malachi," Kent said. "I'm proud of how he's handled himself in his first year in our program. There have been so many great players that have competed with USA Basketball at the junior national level, including WSU's own Klay Thompson, so Malachi joins some pretty good company."

Kentucky head coach John Calipari will lead the USA U19 World Cup Team with the assistance of Tad Boyle from the Colorado and Danny Manning from Wake Forest. Additionally, Sean Hanrahan of Warner, Dan Muller of Illinois State, King Rice of Monmouth and Jeremy Shulman from Eastern Florida State College will serve as court coaches during the training camp.

The 2017 USA Men's U19 World Cup Team training camp is set to get underway at 4 p.m. PT/5 p.m. MT on June 18. Following two practice sessions on June 19, 8:30 a.m.-11 a.m. PT and 3:30-6 p.m. PT, and a morning session on June 20, finalists for the USA U19 team are expected to be announced.  The selected finalists will remain in Colorado Springs and will train twice a day through June 25. The 12-member team is expected to be announced June 22.

Flynn becomes the first Cougar to earn an invitation to the USA Basketball U19 Training Camp since Klay Thompson and DeAngelo Casto were invited to the trials in 2009. Both Thompson and Casto were selected to the team, as USA went on to win gold at the 2009 FIBA U19 World Championships in New Zealand.

A native of Tacoma, Wash., Flynn led the team and ranked15th in the Pac-12 with 58 3-pointers made. He ranks on WSU's freshman list for points (ninth, 302), assists (sixth, 91), 3-point field goals (fourth, 58) and minutes played (second, 1,027), as he became just the third WSU freshman since 1972-73 to start every game in a season, joining Klay Thompson and Mark Hendrickson. Following the season, Flynn was named Pac-12 All-Freshman honorable mention, becoming the first Cougar to be named to an all-conference freshman team since DaVonté Lacy in 2012.