OSU’s Eric Dailey Jr., Mike Boynton to represent U.S. at FIBA U19 World Cup

Braden Bush Sports Editor

Another Cowboy will represent the U.S. in the FIBA U19 Men’s World Cup.

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Eric Dailey Jr. was one of 30 invitees who took part in USA Basketball’s five-day training camp in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Just 12 players are selected to the team, and at the conclusion of the camp Friday, it was announced Dailey earned a spot on the roster.

Dailey will head to Debrecen, Hungary, where the U.S. will take on Madagascar on June 24 at 5 a.m. CT. The Americans will play the following day against Slovenia and on June 27 against Lebanon to round out pool play, which determines seeding in the 16-team bracket.

The tournament will conclude June 28-July 2.

In 2021, Dailey, a 6-foot-8 forward, was part of USA Basketball’s gold-medal 3x3 U18 World Cup Team.

Dailey’s selection gives him the opportunity to be the fifth Cowboy to win a gold medal at the FIBA U19 Men’s World Cup. Marcus Smart (2013), Jawun Evans (2015), Isaac Likekele (2019) and Cade Cunningham (2019) are the others.

OSU coach Mike Boynton will join his four-star recruit in Hungary as an assistant coach for the National Team. This is Boynton’s third consecutive summer with USA Basketball, and last year he was an assistant coach for the FIBA U18 Americas Championship, where he and Dailey won gold together. Boynton was also a court coach for the U19 FIBA World Cup Team in 2019.

It was the second time in two weeks the court upheld an act of Congress against a conservative state’s challenge involving race. Last week, the justices upheld part of the Voting Rights Act that requires Alabama’s Republican legislature to draw a new election district that might elect a Black candidate. Thursday’s decision rejected the claim of Texas state attorneys that Congress could not interfere with state adoption proceedings and seek to place Indian children with tribal families.

Jus- tice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote a 38-page concurring opinion on how the 1978 law followed a century in which Native American children were taken from their families and stripped of their culture and heritage.

“Often, Native American tribes have come to this court seeking justice only to leave with bowed heads and empty hands,” he wrote. “But that is not because this court has no justice to offer them. Our Constitution reserves for the tribes a place — an enduring place — in the structure of American life.”

Thomas wrote a 48page dissent from last week’s ruling on voting rights and a 40-page dissent on Thursday, arguing Congress “lacked any authority” to regulate state adoptions. In a separate dissent, Alito said Congress had wrongly subordinated “the best interest of a child” to the “best interest of a tribe.”

The adoption preferences for keeping Indian children with tribal families were challenged as unconstitutional by Chad and Jennifer Brackeen, a Texas couple who had taken in two children shortly after

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- Saturday: 10:00am - 11:00pm their birth with the approval of their mother, who was a Navajo. Tribal authorities later tried to remove the children from the white family and send them instead to a Navajo couple who lived several hundred miles away.

The Brackeens sued and argued that decisions about adoptions should be based on the “best interest of the child” and should not give an overriding preference to tribal connections.

In its decision in Haaland vs. Brackeen, the court rejected the statesrights challenges to the law and said Congress had the authority to impose adoption rules for state proceedings. The justices also said the plaintiffs did not have standing to sue over the adoption preferences.

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh joined the majority opinion, but said adoption preferences raise a “serious” question that remains unresolved.