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When Markus Howard arrives on Marquette's campus in the coming week, he'll be bringing with him not one, but two gold medals from competitions with Team USA.

The 5-foot-11 guard won his second gold medal on Sunday in Zaragoza, Spain, when he and the U.S. U17 team defeated Turkey, 96-56, to claim the world championship. Howard, an incoming freshman at Marquette, also won a gold medal last summer as part of the U16 team that won the FIBA Americas Championship in Argentina.

Howard, a team captain, contributed nine points on 3 for 7 shooting (3 for 6 from three-point range) as well as three steals and a rebound during 21 minutes of action in the championship game. In six games during the tournament, Howard averaged 11.9 points, 2.6 assists, 2.3 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 20.9 minutes per game. He shot 49.2% from the field overall (30 for 61) and 48.6% from beyond the three-point arc (18 for 37).

Howard's game-by-game stats are available here and the championship game can be seen in its entirety here.