Wiggins leads Team Canada in Olympic qualifier

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A spectacular one-handed dunk by former Kansas University/current Team Canada guard Andrew Wiggins at Wednesday’s Tuto Marchand Cup has drawn over 50,000 views on Youtube.com.

The dunk, in which Wiggins blazes past one defender on the perimeter and one near the basket, is available at the web address http://ljw.bz/1LEZL7o.

The 6-foot-8 Wiggins averaged 14.5 points and 3.0 rebounds a game for Team Canada (4-0) at the Marchand Cup in Puerto Rico. It was a tune-up tourney prior to next week’s FIBA Americas Olympic qualifying tournament in Mexico.

Wiggins, set to start his second season with the Minnesota Timberwolves, hit 42 percent of his shots (21-of-50), including 35.7 percent from three (5-of-14) in games contested against Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brazil and Dominican Republic. He was 68.8 percent from the line (11-of-16).

The top two teams from the 10-team FIBA Americas tourney will advance to the 2016 Olympics.

Top recruits have KU on list: KU is still in the running for five of the top seven prospects in ESPN.com’s most recent list of top-100 high school seniors in the country, as released this week.

The Jayhawks are recruiting No. 1 Harry Giles, 6-10, forward, Oak Hill Academy, Mouth of Wilson, Virginia; No. 3 Josh Jackson, 6-7 guard, Prolific Prep, Napa California; No. 5 Malik Monk, 6-3 guard, Bentonville (Arkansas) High; No. 6 Edrice “Bam” Adebayo, 6-9 forward, High Point (North Carolina) Christian; and No. 7 De’Aaron Fox, 6-3 point guard, Cypress Lakes High, Katy, Texas.

Fundraising total: More than $25,000 was raised for the Mario V. Chalmers Foundation and Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence at the seventh annual Mario V. Chalmers Foundation Golf Tournament and VIP Mixer weekend hosted by former KU guard Chalmers, the foundation has announced.

The late-July weekend included a Tip-Off party, a private VIP fireside chat, the tourney and a VIP mixer after the tourney.

The mission of the Mario V. Chalmers Foundation is “to create and support community-based programs that encourage the positive development of youth through sports and education and fund initiatives for breast cancer research and treatment. The foundation also strives to empower, inspire and enable youth to live healthy lifestyles, put education first and give back to their communities and has recently partnered with Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence.”

Horne has options: Jeriah Horne, a 6-6 senior forward from former KU guard Billy Thomas’ Barstow (Missouri) High program, has narrowed his list of colleges to six.

They are: Iowa State, Nebraska, Kansas State, DePaul, Pepperdine and Wichita State.

“Horne is a slightly undersized but highly skilled forward who can cause matchup problems with his shooting and rebounding,” writes Eric Bossi of Rivals.com. “Horne’s play earned him upwards of 20 offers by the end of the summer and the three-star prospect has made a strong case for inclusion in the next Rivals150 for the class of 2016.”

“I’ve always been labeled as undersized or not quick enough or strong enough, but I’ve learned to use what I have to my strong suits,” Horne, who plays summer ball for KC Run GMC, told Rivals.com.