Joe Mantegna served as head coach of the 2022 USA Nike Hoop Summit Team and led the squad to a 102-80 victory over the World Select Team on April 8 in Portland, Oregon, in his first official game as a USA Basketball coach. Mantegna previously worked as a court coach for the USA Basketball Junior National Team program at the 2019 USA Men's Junior National Team October minicamp and the 2019 USA Men's Junior National Team April training camp at the NCAA Men's Final Four. The head coach at Blair Academy in New Jersey since 1999, Mantegna in 2018-19 led his team to a New Jersey Prep A Championship.

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