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Lloyd will again serve as head coach of the USA’s top junior team, which won the U18 AmeriCup title last summer in Argentina and will play in the FIBA U19 World Cup in Switzerland this summer.

A five-star forward from Gilbert Perry, Peat has been cleared from a hand injury suffered in February and is expected to be among USA’s top players. Dybantsa, an incoming freshman at BYU, is projected as the No. 1 or No. 2 pick in the 2026 NBA Draft.

Among the UA recruiting targets invited to the U19 camp include class of 2026 players Cameron Holmes, Tahj Ariza, Christian Collins, Elijah Williams and Brandon McCoy.

Overall, to try out for the 12-player team, including seven incoming college sophomores, 13 incoming college freshmen and 13 high school class of 2026 players.

To qualify for this year’s U19 competition, players cannot have turned 19 before Jan. 1, 2025, so incoming UA freshman guard Brayden Burries is not eligible because his 19th birthday was last September.

The USA camp roster includes four veterans of the to the AmeriCup gold medal last June: Nik Khamenia, a former UA recruiting target who is now an incoming Duke freshman forward; Daniel Jacobsen, a rising sophomore center at Purdue; Jasper Johnson, an Overtime Elite guard now headed for Kentucky; and Morez Johnson, a forward who played for Illinois last season but is transferring to Michigan.

Jasper Johnson is the top returning scorer from the U18 team, having averaged 10.0 points while shooting 51.1% overall and 42.3% in the U18 AmeriCup.

Jacobsen and Morez Johnson were key post players on the U18 team, with Jacobsen averaging 9.2 points and 7.0 rebounds and Johnson averaging 8.0 points and 9.0 rebounds. Khamenia elevated his recruiting profile in the U18 event by averaging 7.7 points and 6.3 rebounds while shooting 38.5% from 3-point range.

USA’s camp roster does not include Arkansas-bound guard who was the MVP of the U18 AmeriCup last summer while averaging 17.8 points.

USA Basketball said 14 of the 33 U19 invitees have played for one of its junior teams before, while 26 have attended a USA junior team minicamp.

Lloyd’s USA staff will again include assistants in Texas Tech coach Grant McCasland and Notre Dame coach Micah Shrewsberry, while the training camp teams will be coached by Kentucky’s Mark Pope, Alabama’s Nate Oats and North Carolina’s Hubert Davis.

Lloyd is also expected to include UA assistant coach Rem Bakamus and UA athletic trainer Justin Kokoskie on his USA staff. Bakamus served as a special assistant and Kokoskie was the trainer for USA’s U18 team last summer.

The USA Basketball’s U19 camp will begin on June 14, and the FIBA U19 World Cup will be played between June 28 to July 6 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Americans in Group D, which also includes Australia, France and Cameroon.

USA will open against on June 28 at 8:15 a.m., then play France and Cameroon over the next two days. Bracketed games will be played from July 2 to July 6, with a rest day scheduled for July 3.

USA Basketball has won eight of the 15 previous U19 World Cup tournaments. The event was first held in 1979 and was played every four years until 2007, and it has been held every other year since then.

USA last won the event in 2021 but , when Spain won the gold.

Full USA U19 training camp roster

Returning college players

LJ Cason, G, Michigan

Tony Duckett, F, Saint Mary’s*

#Daniel Jacobsen, C, Purdue

#Morez Johnson, C, Illinois

Royce Parham, C, Marquette

Tyrone Riley, F, San Francisco

Tyler Tanner, G, Vanderbilt

Incoming college freshmen

Matt Able, F, N.C. State

Mikel Brown, G, Louisville

Chris Cenac, C, Houston

AJ Dybantsa, F, BYU

Hudson Greer, F, Creighton

Isiah Hartwell, F, Houston

#Jasper Johnson, G, Kentucky

#Nik Khamenia, F, Duke

Nykolas Lewis, G, VCU

JJ Mandaquit, G, Washington

Malachi Moreno, C, Kentucky

Koa Peat, F, Arizona

Sadiq White, F, Syracuse

High school class of 2026

Tajh Ariza, F, Westchester (Calif.) HS

Christian Collins, F, St. John Bosco (Bellflower, Calif.)

Jason Crowe, Jr., G, Inglewood (Calif.) HS

Caleb Gaskins, F, Columbus HS (Miami, Fla.)

Cameron Holmes, G, Millenium HS (Goodyear)

Caleb Holt, G, Grayson HS (Loganville, Ga.)

Taylen Kinney, G, Overtime Elite

Brandon McCoy, G, St. John Bosco (Bellflower, Calif.)

Jaxon Richardson, F, Columbus HS (Miami, Fla.)

Deron Rippe, G, Blair Academy (Blairstown, N.J.)

Jordan Smith, G, St. Paul IV Catholic HS (Chantilly, Va.)

Tyran Stokes, F, Notre Dame HS (Sherman Oaks, Calif.)

Elijah Williams, F, TMI Episcopal (San Antonio)

*Played for the University of San Diego in 2024-25

# Returner from USA team in 2024 U18 AmeriCup.