Jarrod Uthoff got the Team USA call for Dominican Republic vs USA and will join the 2026 World Cup Qualifying Team when the FIBA World Cup Qualifiers begin on July 3. The move sends a player who has spent years moving between leagues back into national-team duty.
Team USA Adds Uthoff
Team USA set Uthoff to represent it in the FIBA World Cup Qualifiers, a brief return to the United States for a veteran who has built his career across the NBA, G League, Europe, and Japan. He has been with Pallacanestro Trieste in Italy since 2024, where he averaged 7.8 points per game last season, shot 51.3 percent from the field, and made 37.8 percent of his attempts from beyond the arc.
That profile fits the kind of player who has stayed in the game by adapting. Uthoff played for the G League Raptors 905 from 2016 to 2017, then for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants in 2017 and 2018, the Texas Legends in 2017, the Memphis Hustle from 2019 to 2020, and the Erie Bayhawks in 2021. He also had NBA stints with the Dallas Mavericks in 2017, the Memphis Grizzlies in 2020, and the Washington Wizards in 2020.
Iowa Roots Run Deep
Uthoff’s path started long before this call-up. He was the 2011 Iowa Mr. Basketball, Fran McCaffery convinced him to join the Hawkeyes in 2013, and he later transferred back to Iowa after two seasons at Wisconsin. The stop-start career arc that followed has now brought him back into the national spotlight.
He also spent three seasons in Japan before finding a home with Pallacanestro Trieste in Italy, another turn that adds to the travel log behind this selection. Jarrod Uthoff is set to represent Team USA as a member of its 2026 World Cup Qualifying Team, and the timing puts him in line for duty as the qualifiers open on July 3.
What Team USA wants from him inside the FIBA World Cup Qualifiers is not stated, but the selection says enough about where he stands now: a veteran forward who has kept producing across different levels and is back in the national-team mix when the games begin.
