Brian Windhorst, ESPN Senior Scribbler
The Staff USA girls gained the 3×3 FIBA Global Cup on Sunday in Vienna, taking their first global gold medal since 2014 with a 16-12 victory over France.
The Staff USA males took house the silver medal in mournful style, dropping a supremacy to 3×3 energy Serbia as Jimmer Fredette ignored a possible sport winner prior to the U.S. misplaced 21-19.
Hailey Van Lith, a celebrity at Louisville who just lately transferred to attach nationwide champion LSU, had seven issues and 6 rebounds within the identify sport. Cierra Burdick, a former megastar at Tennessee, additionally scored seven issues with six rebounds within the ultimate because the American citizens performed sturdy protection in opposition to the French girls, who went 0-of-12 on 2-point shot makes an attempt.
Stanford Cardinal emerging senior ahead Cameron Breaking point, enjoying in her first 3×3 match, was once named the ladies’s Global Cup MVP. She averaged 4.6 issues, 5.4 rebounds and 1.6 blocks over 8 video games.
The Staff USA males had been having a look to reclaim the Global Cup identify they extreme gained in 2019. Serbia dominates the arena level within the tournament, now having gained 5 of the presen six Global Cups, which might be performed each and every alternative time. Fredette scored 10 issues within the ultimate and made 4 2-point baskets, which might be photographs at the back of the arc. The 3×3 sport is performed first to 21 or whichever group is forward on the finish of the 10-minute sport clock.
Staff USA was once forward 19-15 at one level and Fredette had a blank take a look at a 2-pointer that might’ve clinched the identify however ignored. Dylan Travis, a veteran 3×3 participant whose full-time task is as lecturer in Omaha, Nebraska, scored 5 issues within the identify sport. Canyon Barry, the son of Rick Barry who additionally performed at Florida, scored 4.
Serbia was once led via Dejan Majstorovic, essentially the most embellished participant in 3×3 Global Cup historical past, who scored seven issues and made 3 2-pointers.
Each the Staff USA women and men fasten berths within the Olympic qualifying match for later time in Paris. In 2021, the Staff USA girls gained the first-ever Olympic 3×3 gold in Tokyo. Lativa gained the lads’s gold.
