KU’s Dajuan Harris headed to Spain in August with USA all-star team

By Matt Tait     Jul 19, 2021

Associated Press
Kansas' Dajuan Harris (3) controls the ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Justin Rex)

Kansas point guard Dajuan Harris is scheduled to head to Spain in August to play for the USA East Coast all-star Red team in a series of games against international competition.

Harris, who is set to enter his third year with the Jayhawks during the 2021-22 season, will play for a team led by former Kansas coach Larry Brown, who recently joined Penny Hardaway’s staff at Memphis.

Joining Harris on the Red team are brothers Buddy and Jimmy Boeheim, of Syracuse, Western Connecticut State’s Matthew Turner, Paul Mulcahy (Rutgers), Matthew Kelly (Assumption), Alyn Breed (Providence), Joey Baker (Duke), Evan Battey (Colorado) and Patrick McCaffery (Iowa).

The team will be joined by a White team and a Blue team and all three will face teams from Spain and France in both Valencia and Barcelona in early August.

Harris and the rest of the roster will report to training camp at Manhattan College in New York City on July 31.

According to the website for the USA East Coast all-star team (formerly known as the East Coast All Stars), the program was founded in 2006 by Guy Rancourt and it has become “college basketball’s unofficial study abroad program.”

USA East Coast has represented the United States in 15 countries and worked closely with USA Basketball to help teams from the U.S. prepare for international play.

“Guy is not only a good basketball coach but a good friend,” Brown said in a testimonial on the website. “Our experiences with USA Basketball over the last several years have shown he teaches the game the right way. It makes me happy to know Guy is continuing to educate young men on and off the court.”

Rancourt will be one of two assistants working with Brown and the Red team next month. Columbia’s Jim Engles is the other assistant coach.

Harris is one of two sophomores on a roster full of college juniors and seniors.

He averaged 2.4 points and 2.2 assists in 16 minutes per game last season while playing in all 30 games for the Jayhawks. He ranked second on the team with 65 assists and swiped 29 steals, the most by a non-starter.

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Written By Matt Tait

A native of Colorado, Matt moved to Lawrence in 1988 and has been in town ever since. He graduated from Lawrence High in 1996 and the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in Journalism. After covering KU sports for the University Daily Kansan and Rivals.com, Matt joined the World Company (and later Ogden Publications) in 2001 and has held several positions with the paper and KUsports.com in the past 20+ years. He became the Journal-World Sports Editor in 2018. Throughout his career, Matt has won several local and national awards from both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Kansas Press Association. In 2021, he was named the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Matt lives in Lawrence with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, Kate and Molly. When he's not covering KU sports, he likes to spend his time playing basketball and golf, listening to and writing music and traveling the world with friends and family.