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FIBA WBB World Cup - M T - 09-07-2026

FIBA's World Cup for WBB is happening in Berlin. Maybe there's another new world order happening in Germany.

I didn't see it but Spain lost to Mali on Saturday, 82-73.

I recorded the US-Italy game during Sunday's WVB match and watched it today.
Italy WBB had not been on the world stage in 33 years (1993).
The US of course has all the WNBA stars and is coached by Kara Lawson, and a 31 game winning streak.
Back in March, the US blew out Italy 93-59. On Friday, the US blew out China 94-61
A blowout was expected again.

Apparently, Italy read a different script. Down big early (8-19 at the end of Q1), they gained the momentum in Q2, took the lead in the 3rd and again in the 4th.

Italy had the lead at 6:00, 5:00, 4:00 left in the game, and sank a bucket that would have given them the lead again at 3:03, but the officials called a charge. Italy, with the ball and down 3 with seconds on the clock, had a player on the 3pt line get poked in the eye as she dribbled. She gats a pass off but is given the ball again and tries a 3-pointer despite the eye. No basket.

So the US team sneaks out with an ugly 55-52 win.
[Note: If you go to the FIBA site and want to turn off the ad stuff, you'll have to step through turning off 16 opt-outs and ignore 5 others. You'll be asked about it for each FIBA page.]
Clark was 0 for 6 in 18:30 (no previous 0-fers for her in NCAA or WNBA). Stewart was 1 for 9 in 27:16. The US was 1 for 12 from 3pt.
Iriafen was the only US player not to play.
How did the US win? They were given 10 more FTA, making 8 more, in a game decided by 3.

I don't know FIBA's rules. Besides the late poke in the eye, in Q3(?) there had been an obvious charge by a US player ramming her shoulder into a stationary guard out by half court that was called a defensive foul. In Q2(?), there was an inbounds play where the ball obviously was off the foot of a US player (and immediately out of bounds) on an Italy throw-in, where the ball was then awarded to the US. (That must be some rule that doesn't exist in the NCAA. The announcers were homers so they didn't cover stuff like that.)

I was quite impressed with Italy. They scrambled on defense disrupting the US offense and shots, good block-outs and hustled to get loose balls, and had (IMO) very quick moves to get shots off. Rebounds were essentially even despite the US looking much taller.

Unfortunately, Italy lost to China by 20 today.
Today, the US did blow out Chechnia by 41 as expected.

RE: FIBA WBB World Cup - BostonCard - 09-07-2026

(09-07-2026, 06:15 PM)M T Wrote: Italy had the lead at 6:00, 5:00, 4:00 left in the game, and sank a bucket that would have given them the lead again at 3:03, but the officials called a charge. Italy, with the ball and down 3 with seconds on the clock, had a player on the 3pt line get poked in the eye as she dribbled. She gats a pass off but is given the ball again and tries a 3-pointer despite the eye. No basket.

Here’s the play:

https://x.com/sluggahjells/status/2096698769232330945/video/1?s=61

The alleged eye poke occurs at 9 seconds in the video; the reaction seems to dramatically exceed the level of contact, but of course getting poked in the eye can draw a pretty dramatic reaction. Hard to tell for sure from the video feed, but it looks pretty incidental.

BC

RE: FIBA WBB World Cup - crackpot - 09-07-2026

Nigeria didn't advance past the group stage, so Nora and Shay should be on their way home.