Former Gators males’s basketball guard Canyon Barry is heading to Paris to play within the Olympics.
Representing the 🔴⚪️🔵@cbarry719 has been chosen to the USA Basketball 3×3 Males’s Nationwide Crew, competing on the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris!
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— Florida Gators Males’s Basketball (@GatorsMBK) March 26, 2024
Time as a Gator
Canyon Barry transferred from the Faculty of Charleston to the College of Florida as a grad switch for the 2016-2017 season. He averaged over 12 factors per recreation for his profession in faculty.
As a Gator, he grew to become the SEC Sixth Man of the 12 months and earned nationwide Educational All-American of the 12 months honors. Off the bench, he averaged over 11 factors per recreation whereas attaining his profession highs in area aim and free throw share throughout that season.
The primary-ever 🇺🇸 #3x3MNT to play within the Olympics 🙌@usab3x3 has chosen Canyon Barry, Jimmer Fredette, Kareem Maddox & Dylan Travis to the 2024 USA 3×3 Males’s Nationwide Crew! pic.twitter.com/ewK033wPtM
— USA Basketball (@usabasketball) March 26, 2024
Barry to the Olympics
Barry will likely be joined by former NBA participant, Jimmer Fredette, in addition to Kareem Maddox and Dylan Travis.
Now, the model of play during which Barry was chosen to is just not your regular 5-on-5 play. Barry will likely be enjoying 3-on-3 basketball. Nonetheless, this isn’t new to Barry. He started enjoying 3-on-3 basketball again in 2019. Whereas nonetheless within the G-League, he was chosen to the Males’s U.S. World Cup Crew. That very same workforce then went to win the gold medal in the course of the 2019 FIBA 3×3 Basketball World Cup.
Since that 2019 workforce, which already consisted of Barry and Maddox, workforce USA added Fredette and Travis. With the addition of these two gamers, they’ve gone on to win the 2022 FIBA 3×3 AmeriCup and the 2023 Pan American Video games. The workforce heading to Paris this 12 months additionally received a silver medal in the course of the 2023 FIBA 3×3 Basketball World Cup.
The way it Works
3-on-3 basketball is performed on a half-court, not like the same old full-court performed on throughout a 5-on-5 recreation.
So far as the foundations go, there’s a 10 minute recreation clock with a 12 second shot clock. The play is steady and is scored by one- and two-point baskets. A one-point basket is something scored contained in the arc whereas a two-point basket is a behind the arc shot. First workforce to 21 wins or the workforce with essentially the most factors after 10 minutes wins (if neither workforce has 21 factors when time expires).
With this announcement, Barry turns into the primary ever former Gators males’s basketball participant to play within the Olympics. The Paris Olympics are set to start on July 26 and run by means of Aug. 11. You may watch Barry play in 3-on-3 competitors on July 30 by means of Aug. 5.
