2022 FIBA Women’s World Cup: Team USA schedule, scores, roster, how to watch, live stream, TV channel

Team USA is top of the world with an 83-61 victory over China in the 2022 Women’s World Cup final on Saturday. As is often the case in this tournament, the Americans’ level of depth and talent ultimately overwhelmed their opponents after a fairly competitive game start.

A’ja Wilson led the scoring division with 19 points and Kelsey Plum added 17 points. Chelsea Gray (10 points, 4 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 steals) and Breana Stewart (9 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists) both played strong all-around his game.

Wilson was named Women’s World Cup MVP after averaging 17.2 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.2 steals during the tournament. Meanwhile, Alyssa Thomas was honored as the best defensive player of the event.

This was Team USA’s fourth consecutive World Cup title since the 2006 semi-finals, which had not yet lost an event. From 1959 he was still one win short of his fifth consecutive gold medal, the Soviet record set in 1975, but Team USA had the most wins with 11.

This time the World Cup was held in Australia and ended on Saturday. All matches were played at multiple venues in the historic city of Sydney. 12 teams participated in the tournament, and the preliminaries were divided into two groups of 6 teams each. The top four teams from each group then advanced to the single-elimination knockout stage. China won silver, the host country Australia won bronze, and Canada finished fourth.

result

Team USA is in Group A along with Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Puerto Rico and South Korea. They played each team once and he barely broke a sweat in the knockout stage qualifiers. They also made it through the knockout stage, winning his last three matches by more than 20 points each.

qualifying round

knockout stage

roster

Team USA waited until after the WNBA Finals to release their final roster. Players from the Las Vegas Aces and Connecticut Sun would not have been included if the series had advanced to the decisive Game 5. As it stands, Ace handled business in his four games to win the first-ever title.

The roster is now set, with regular season MVP and Defensive Player of the Year Aja Wilson, Finals MVP Chelsea Gray and Kelsey Plum, triple-double history maker Alyssa Thomas and sixth Player of the Year Breonna. All Jones are present. cut. It would have been fascinating to see the roster if the Finals stars hadn’t made it to Australia.

As it stands, this will already be the new looking national team. Heavyweights like Sue Bird, Tina Charles, Sylvia Fowles, and Diana Taurasi are getting older, Nafisa Collier is still recovering from pregnancy, and Skyler Diggins-Smith has taken a break from basketball for personal reasons. , Britney Griner remains detained in Russia.

Only five members of the 2020 Olympic gold medal winning team are on the team: Ariel Atkins, Chelsea Gray, Jewel Lloyd, Breana Stewart and Aja Wilson. Of course, his two best players in the world, the current Finals MVP and his two other All-Stars, are a good place to start any roster.

coaching staff

• Head Coach: Sheryl Reeve (Minnesota Lynx)
• Assistant: Mike Thibaud (Washington Mystics)
• Assistant: Kara Lawson (Duke)
• Assistant: Joni Taylor (Texas A&M)