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Washington basketball pursues teen who led upset of United States team

July 21, 2026

By Dan Raley, Washington Huskies on SI: All Deng Ngor had to do to get noticed as a basketball player was beat the United States in a championship game, something Canada had never done before on a youth level.

Yet in June, the 6-foot-8, 200-pound forward from Erie, Ontario, by way of Peace River, Alberta, pulled off this feat in a single-handed manner.

Ngor dropped in a 3-pointer to tie the FIBA U18 AmeriCup title game and then dropped in a sweeping left-handed dunk off a lob pass to provide his Canadian team with a resounding 67-65 victory over the Americans at Domo de la Feria in Leon, Mexico.

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