Jasiah Jervis and Ethan Taylor were looking to pick up a quick gold medal at the FIBA AmeriCup down in Mexico before making their way up to East Lansing to join their Michigan State teammates.
Unfortunately, Canada had other plans.
The Spartan duo played sparingly on Sunday night as Team USA fell short against Canada, 67-65, in the gold medal game at the AmeriCup event in Mexico. That ended a streak of seven straight golds for the Team USA’s U18 squad. This also meant that the Spartan duo will be headed home with silver which obviously feels like failure to them…