SAN ANTONIO – UTSA men's basketball legend Keaton Wallace has been selected to play for the 2022 USA Basketball FIBA Men's World Tour Series teams which will compete at select 3x3 events throughout the summer and fall.
Wallace, a native of Dallas, was selected by the USA Basketball 3x3 National Team Selection Committee on the first ever FIBA 3x3 Men's World Tour team. He is joined by Isaiah Brown (Northern Iowa), Austin Butler (Charlotte), Hassani Gravett (South Carolina), Khalil Iverson (Wisconsin), Rodney Pryor (Georgetown) and Jared Wilson-Frame (Pittsburgh) on the USA Basketball National Team's 3x3 FIBA World Tour roster.
The roster will be coached by Fran Fraschilla and will be played with 3x3 rules, including a half-court contest with a 10-minute game clock and a 12-second shot clock. Play is continuous, as teams "clear" the ball behind the 2-point line following a made basket, defensive rebound or steal. The first team to score 21 points via 1-point field goals and 2-pointers behind the arc is victorious, or if time expires then the team leading wins.
Our guy @KeatonWallace22 has been selected to the @usabasketball 3x3 Team for its FIBA World Tour Series!
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Wallace recently competed at the Red Bull USA Basketball 3x3 Nationals, playing on a USA Basketball select team.
A UTSA star from 2017-21, Wallace signed with the Los Angeles Clippers to play for their NBA G-League team in 2021-22 in his professional debut, after a strong showing in the NBA Summer League for the Memphis Grizzlies. Wallace ranked among the G-League's top producers throughout the year, averaging 18.1 points, 5.7 rebounds, 5.2 assists and 1.7 steals during his 31-game season. He shot 46.7 percent from the field, 41.3 percent from 3-point range and 82.5 percent from the free-throw line in leading the Agua Caliente Clippers to the G-League Playoffs.
Wallace was a four-time All-Conference USA honoree during a career that saw him leave UTSA as the second all-time leading scorer in program history and the 428th all-time leading scorer in college basketball history. He poured in 2,080 career points, ranking sixth in C-USA history. As a senior in 2020-21, Wallace averaged 16.8 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game, sported 18.8 points and 4.5 rebounds per game as a junior and 20.2 points and 5.0 rebounds per game as a sophomore. He ranks among the UTSA record holders in nearly every category, including scoring, seventh in average (16.8), third in games played (125), fourth in starts (109), third in free-throw percentage (80.6), seventh in free-throws made (304), second in field-goals made (715), ninth in rebounds (554) and sixth in assists (355).
He had a bevy of highlight moments throughout his career, including a 45-point outburst in an overtime win at Marshall as a sophomore. Wallace was a two-time National Association of Basketball Coaches All-District selection and won five C-USA Player of the Week honors.
The USA Men's World Tour will begin on July 1-2 at the Poitiers Challenge in Poiteirs, France, with Wallace joining Gravett, Brown and Iverson in the event. The full schedule for the 3x3 World Tour can be found here.
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