Group USA performs Hungary within the quarterfinals of the FIBA Ladies’s Basketball World Cup on Thursday morning, and American viewers will want an alarm.
The best way to watch
USA vs. Hungary — Quarterfinals
Thursday, Sept. 10 — 5:30 a.m. ET / 11:30 a.m. native
Berlin Enviornment, Berlin
TV: TNT and truTV
Streaming: HBO Max. TNT additionally streams by way of YouTube TV and DirecTV.
Each recreation of the match: Courtside 1891 through DAZN — $11.99 a month or $44.99 for the 12 months, dwell and on demand, English commentary with Spanish on choose video games.
Semifinals are Saturday. The third-place recreation and remaining are Sunday.
The remainder of Thursday’s quarterfinals
5:30 a.m. — USA vs. Hungary
8:30 a.m. — France vs. the Puerto Rico–China winner
11:45 a.m. — Belgium vs. Germany
2:45 p.m. — Australia vs. Spain
Caitlin Clark has not began a recreation
She has come off the bench in all three group video games, and the outcomes have swung exhausting.
Towards China she had 14 factors and 11 assists in 25 minutes. Towards Italy she scored one level on 0-for-6 taking pictures with one help and two turnovers, and sat the ultimate seven minutes of a 55-52 win — the primary time in her faculty or skilled profession she did not make a discipline purpose. Towards Czechia she had 9 factors and 7 assists in a blowout.
Coach Kara Lawson advised OutKick she’s staying along with her veteran beginning group for the quarterfinal, saying she likes the place the crew is. She mentioned the identical about Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers, who’ve additionally come off the bench.
Breanna Stewart, Napheesa Collier, Kahleah Copper, Chelsea Grey and Jackie Younger have began all three.
Hungary just isn’t a walkover
The USA has overwhelmed Hungary 4 occasions in 4 conferences, however the final one was in 1986.
Dorka Juhász performs for the Minnesota Lynx. She had 22 factors and 11 rebounds in Hungary’s 82-73 win over Korea on Sunday, taking pictures 8-of-13 with no turnovers and no fouls. She’s the explanation this crew is right here.
Virág Takács-Kiss added 14 factors and eight rebounds in that recreation and performs for Valencia in Spain. Kinga Josepovits, an 18-year-old middle listed at 6-foot-5, scored the go-ahead basket within the fourth quarter.
Hungary averages 72.5 factors a recreation to the Individuals’ 84.7, however shoots higher from three — 34.8 p.c to 29 p.c.
The WPBL playoffs are the identical two nights
The primary skilled ladies’s baseball postseason in additional than seventy years started Wednesday in Springfield, Illinois.
Wednesday, Sept. 9 — Boston at San Francisco, 8:00 p.m. ET
Thursday, Sept. 10 — Los Angeles at New York, 8:00 p.m. ET
Each are best-of-three semifinals. Each recreation is on ESPN. Full schedule, standings and tips on how to watch right here.
Why that is on a baseball website
Clark has a documented historical past with the sport.
She threw a ceremonial first pitch at Wrigley Discipline earlier than a Cubs-Cardinals recreation in August 2022, whereas she was nonetheless at Iowa.
She’s turned up at Yankee Stadium and at Oracle Park, the place she sat close to the house dugout and referred to as the ballpark a bucket-list cease.
She tried play-by-play on TikTok throughout a Phillies-Brewers recreation with teammate Lexie Hull and concluded that calling baseball is tough work — Phillies broadcaster Tom McCarthy invited her into the sales space afterward.
She posted throughout further innings of the World Sequence.
https://twitter.com/CaitlinClark22/standing/1984828031811113236
She can also be taking part in throughout the arrival of ten new skilled ladies’s leagues since 2024. The New York Instances counted them final week: hockey, softball, two volleyball leagues, three basketball ventures, lacrosse, rugby, baseball, and a flag soccer league coming subsequent 12 months.
The Instances led that story with Denae Benites, the New York Heights catcher, hitting a house run over the left-center fence at Robin Roberts Stadium. Benites completed the WPBL common season hitting .552 with 11 house runs in 15 video games. She performs Thursday night time.
The online game seen first
NBA 2K27 shipped final week with Clark on the worldwide Deluxe Version cowl — the primary WNBA participant on a premium NBA 2K cowl — alongside Victor Wembanyama.
The sport additionally added a playable FIBA World Cup mode, the place MyPLAYER characters can go away their membership season to signify their nations. And it opened MyPLAYER creation to feminine characters for the primary time, in a completely co-ed on-line surroundings the place top, weight, wingspan and rankings drive all the things no matter who you constructed.
Each cowl athletes spent the launch window taking part in for his or her nationwide groups. Wembanyama was in Belgrade and Orléans for FIBA World Cup qualifiers two weeks in the past. Clark is in Berlin.
No one needed to be argued into any of this. You construct a lineup, she’s out there, and three quarters later you have watched her shoot subsequent to Bam Adebayo and a classic Gail Goodrich. The curiosity arrives after the actual fact.
That is roughly what the WPBL is banking on too, and what MLB has quietly inspired with out proudly owning any of it — Rob Manfred taped a welcome for the league’s first draft, the Purple Sox hosted the opening cease of its promotional tour at Fenway, and the league performs by MLB’s fashionable guidelines, pitch clock and extra-innings runner included.
Schedule, rosters and statistics through FIBA and the WPBL. Lawson quote through OutKick. League depend through The New York Instances.
