Up to date Sept. 12, 2026, 8:50 p.m. ET
The spotlight reel for the United States’ 76-66 victory win over Spain on Saturday won’t be crammed with jaw-dropping passes or splashy 3-pointers from Caitlin Clark.
Crew USA will play for the gold medal of the 2026 FIBA Ladies’s World Cup on Sunday beating Spain within the match’s semifinals. The People will face France, who they narrowly defeated within the gold medal sport of the 2024 Summer time Olympics.
Crew USA confirmed it may possibly win with out an explosive offensive efficiency from Clark.
The 24-year-old celebrity guard of the Indiana Fever performed just below 17 minutes within the win and scored one level, flattening a free throw within the first quarter. Clark additionally had one rebound, one help, one steal and two turnovers. She shot 0-of-3 from the ground — all 3-point makes an attempt — and was 1-of-3 from the free-throw line.
Clark’s finest offensive play of the day got here within the opening interval when she fed a bounce move to Fever teammate Aliyah Boston for a simple layup.
Whereas Clark’s stats didn’t bounce off the web page, there was a cause she performed the second-most minutes off the bench for Kara Lawson. The Iowa product was stout on protection for stretches of the sport.
Clark additionally completed with the second-best plus-minus mark for Crew USA on Saturday with 16. Plus-minus is a complicated statistic that tracks the online level differential for a group whereas a selected participant is on the court docket. Boston had the very best with 21.
With the sport tied at 58 on the finish of the third quarter, Crew USA used an 18-6 run to take a 12-point lead within the fourth. Clark was subbed off halfway by that run — on the 5:33 mark — as Lawson known as her again to the bench 17 seconds after she missed a pull-up 3-pointer.
For the match, Clark is averaging 7.1 factors, 5.8 assists and a pair of.4 rebounds per sport.
The People will play on Sunday for what might be their fifth consecutive gold medal within the World Cup. France defeated Germany within the different semifinal 86-64 behind 22 factors from Golden State Valkyries star Gabby Williams.
