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Jalen Brunson impressed everybody at the U19 FIBA World Championship

Arizona coach Sean Miller had maybe the highest praise of all.

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Incoming Villanova point guard Jalen Brunson will be returning home to the United States as a member of the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championship team and MVP of the International Tournament.

That kid is a Final Four point guard. -U19 & Arizona head coach Sean Miller

En route to the personal award, Brunson displayed incredible maturity as an 18-year-old and was the steady rock for the USA's squad. Brunson, along with undecided Class of 2016 recruit Harry Giles, led the US in scoring with 14 points per game. The soon-to-be Wildcat also led the USA in assists at 5.6 per game with an impressive 3.25 Assist/Turnover ratio.

The head coach of the U19 squad was Arizona's Sean Miller, he told Sports Illustrated, "That kid is a Final Four point guard."

Here is how the Stevenson HS alumn performed in Greece.

Game Min FG 2FG 3FG FT ORebs DRebs Rebs Ast PF To Stl BLK +/- Ef Pts
Iran 25

1/6
16.7%

0/2
0%
1/4
25%
6/6
100%
0 3 3 3 1 1 3 0 4 12 9
Croatia 23 4/8
50%
4/5
80%
0/3
0%
2/2
100%
0 2 2 8 2 0 3 0 18 19 10
Egypt 20 3/6
50%
1/3
33.3%
2/3
66.7%
1/3
33.3%
0 3 3 6 3 1 2 0 24 14 9
Argentina 19 3/5
60%
2/3
66.7%
1/2
50%
2/2
100%
0 4 4 6 3 2 2 0 20 17 9
Italy 27 7/10
70%
4/7
57.1%
3/3
100%
0/0
0%
0 2 2 5 0 3 3 0 11 21 17
Greece 31 9/13
69.2%
7/8
87.5%
2/5
40%
10/12
83.3%
0 4 4 4 1 5 1 0 13 28 30
Croatia 40 5/11
45.5%
3/6
50%
2/5
40%
2/2
100%
0 5 5 7 0 0 1 0 9 21 14
Totals 185 32/59
54.2%
21/34
61.8%
11/25
44%
23/27
85.2%
0 23 23 39 10 12 15 0 99 132 98
Average 26.4 4.6/8.4
54.2%
3/4.9
61.8%
1.6/3.6
44%
3.3/3.9
85.2%
0 3.3 3.3 5.6 1.4 1.7 2.1 0 14.1 18.9 14

His performance was by many College Basketball pundits and prompted many tweets.

Can we get Brunson in a Wildcat uniform soon enough.