I didn't recall anything about this guy until I heard him mentioned on sports talk this morning concerning his performance in the All Star game. Found a few pieces on him and he looks solid. Pretty darn skippy to represent the USA in something like this. Also appears he comes from good stock. I hate women's basketball but Vicki Orr was skrate up badass. Oh, and 4 for 4 from the line? Sign him up. 247 has him as the #15 player in the country and #1 in the State.
from 247
Aubrey Wiley left Alabama last month with hopes of representing the United States on the international stage. He will return home a world champion with a gold medal in tow.
Wiley and the U.S. were never challenged Sunday in the gold medal game of the FIBA U17 World Championship, blasting Turkey 96-56 in Zaragoza, Spain. The 40-point margin of victory was the largest ever in a FIBA U17 final, besting a record already held by the U.S., as it beat Poland by 31 points (111-80) in 2010.
"For having a group like this come together as well as they have, especially on the defensive end was a real tribute to (assistant coaches) Miles Simon and Mike Jones," U.S. head coach Don Showalter said afterward. "It was one of those things where you don’t plan on having a team that’s going to be as quite as good as this, but every game, they got better and better. We really played well tonight."
An Auburn commit, Wiley scored six points — going 4-for-4 from the free throw line — along with five rebounds, one assist and one block in nine minutes of play. Wiley becomes the second member of his family to medal in international competition; his mother, Vicki Orr Wiley, won a bronze medal with the U.S. women's national team in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Sunday's victory helped the U.S. finish the tournament 7-0. The U.S. also won the gold medal in the previous three editions (2010, 2012 and 2014) and is 30-0 all-time in U17 play.
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