COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Incoming freshman Diamond Miller (Somerset, N.J.) and the USA Basketball U19 team will open play in the FIBA World Championships this weekend in Bangkok, Thailand. The 13th FIBA U19 World Cup will be held July 20-28 in Bangkok, Thailand, where the USA will play for its eighth gold medal.

No. 1 in FIBA's world youth women's rankings, the USA will play in preliminary round Group C and will open the competition July 20 against No. 7 Australia (1:15 a.m. EDT), followed by a July 21 contest against No. 15 South Korea (1 a.m. EDT). After a rest day, the USA will cap preliminary games July 23 against No. 14 Hungary (1 a.m. EDT).
 
Group A includes Canada, Latvia, Mozambique and Thailand; Group B features Argentina, Belgium, China and Mali; and drawn into Group D were Colombia, Germany, Japan and Spain.
 
Following the preliminary round, all teams will advance to the July 24 round of 16. The winners of the round of 16 will advance to the July 26 medal quarterfinals, and the losers will play out for ninth-16th places. The semifinals will be played on July 27, and the gold and bronze medal games on July 28.
 
Preliminary round games will be streamed live online at YouTube.com/FIBA and Facebook.com/USABasketball while medal round action will stream at ESPN+.  For more on the FIBA World Championships, click here.

Miller previously helped the 2017 USA U16 National Team capture the FIBA Americas U16 Championship gold medal with a perfect 5-0 record in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She also was a finalist for the 2018 USA U17 World Cup Team and listed as an alternate to the 2019 USA U19 World Cup Team following team trials in May. She was named the 2019 Gatorade New Jersey Player of the Year and was a 2019 WBCA and Naismith High School All-America honorable mention. She is part of Maryland's second straight top-five recruiting class​.  

Rising sophomore Taylor Mikesell was named to the 12-player roster 2019 USA Women's Pan American Games Team, which will compete in early August. Mikesell is the youngest player named to the team.

The team members will return to Colorado Springs for training camp July 23-Aug. 5, before competing in the women's basketball tournament at the 2019 Pan American Games from Aug. 6-10 in Lima, Peru.

Including Mikesell and Miller, 12 Terrapins have played for their respective national teams under head coach Brenda Frese, eight on U.S. national squads. Frese's Terrapins have won nine gold medals in international play.

For more on the U19 games team, click here.