A recap of the Quarterfinal-, Semifinal- and Championship-Recreation rounds of the 2026 FIBA Ladies’s Basketball World Cup:

September 10:

BERLIN, Germany — Chelsea Grey and Jackie Younger helped the USA open the day of quarterfinal motion with a 108-56 victory over Hungary to advance to the World Cup semifinals Thursday in Berlin. Steph Talbot and a depleted Australia staff fought arduous, however ultimately succumbed to a full-strength Spanish staff, 89-66.

Grey completed with 6 factors on 2-for-2 taking pictures from three-point vary, 4 rebounds, six assists and one steal in 18 minutes. Younger scored 10 factors to go together with two rebounds, one help and one steal, additionally in 18 minutes. Talbot completed with 11 factors as one among 4 Aussies who scored between 11-13 factors, and she or he additionally posted game-highs of 11 rebounds and 7 assists, in addition to two steals.

France additionally superior with a 90-61 victory over China and host Germany downed Belgium 93-74 within the day’s third-quarterfinal recreation.

USA 108, Hungary 56:

Hungary led 3-2 over 19 seconds early on, earlier than a 7-0 spurt, capped by a Younger two-pointer, gave followers a preview of issues to come back.

On the finish of the primary quarter the USA expanded its result in 36-12 and almost doubled Hungary’s factors by halftime, 59-30. The second half was extra of the identical because the red-, white-and-blue outscored the European facet 34-17 within the third quarter and 15-9 within the fourth quarter.

Napheesa Collier led the USA effort with 19 factors.

Plenty of information fell, together with a USA World Cup first-half scoring excessive of 59 factors. In all-time World Cup quarterfinals video games, for any staff, the information set had been: 108 factors, 31 assists, mixed first-half factors (89), and profitable margin (+42).

Spain 89, Australia 66:

Accidents and sickness plagued Australia forward of the sport. The Opals had been with out the companies of Ezi Magbegor (12.3 factors per recreation, 5.3 rebounds per recreation), Jade Melbourne (7.0 factors per recreation, 2.8 assists per recreation) and Alanna Smith (10.0 factors per recreation, 8.0 rebounds per recreation), however began off by staying even within the opening minutes and had been knotted at 15-all 4 minutes into the sport. Nonetheless, Spain turned up their protection and outscored Australia 16-2 over the rest of the quarter to take a 31-17 lead. At halftime , Spain’s lead was as much as 58-37 and Australia was by no means capable of recuperate.

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Sept. 12:

BERLIN, Germany – The Las Vegas Aces duo of Chelsea Grey and Jackie Younger aided the USA to a 76-66 semifinal victory over Spain on the World Cup Saturday evening in Berlin. France downed host Germany, 86-64, within the first semifinal contest, establishing a rematch of the Gold-Medal Recreation of the 2024 Summer time Olympics.

Younger contributed 12 factors, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and two steals, whereas Grey, who took a tough hit to the face early, which despatched her to the bench following her first bucket, completed with 5 factors, two rebounds and two assists.

The gold-medal recreation was performed on Sunday, Sept. 13. The Spain-Germany bronze-medal recreation tipped off and was performed previous to the gold-medal contest.

Spain took a 9-1 lead earlier than a Grey three-pointer gave the USA their first area objective of the sport after two-and-a-half minutes had expired. Spain remained in entrance till a Paige Bueckers bucket nudged the USA forward 17-16 with lower than two minutes remaining within the first quarter. Workforce USA held on and led 21-18 on the finish of the primary quarter.

The second quarter remained tight, and the USA headed to the locker room up by three factors, 39-36.

Spain knotted the rating on an early three-pointer and took a slim 45-44 lead with seven-and-a-half remaining within the third interval, however the USA went again in entrance 20 seconds later. A basket by Megan DiLeo, neé Gustafson, with 92 seconds left within the body knotted the rating at 56-all, and the third quarter led to a 58-58 tie.

The USA scored the primary two baskets within the remaining body, one among which was a Younger lay-up, and the American facet by no means once more trailed. Halfway by means of the fourth quarter, a Grey lay-up prolonged the USA’s result in 10, 70-60. Spain reduce the USA’s result in eight factors on two events, however the depth of Workforce USA wouldn’t enable Spain to get any nearer within the waning minutes.

Breanna Stewart led the USA with 16 factors and added six rebounds and two assists.

Toronto’s Maria Conde and Iyana Martin scored 17 apiece for the European squad.

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Sept. 13:

BERLIN, Germany – Dealing with a very-strong French staff, the USA staff turned to their veteran management, which included Chelsea Grey and Jackie Younger, to assist lead the USA of America to a 97-79 gold-medal recreation victory over France on the 2026 FIBA World Cup on Sunday evening in Berlin. Spain earned the bronze medal after downing host Germany, 81-58.

Younger, who scored 18 factors, hauled in six rebounds and dished out 5 assists, was named the Participant of the Recreation, whereas Grey contributed 12 factors, 4 rebounds and 5 dimes.

Breanna Stewart, who led the USA with a double-double of twenty-two factors and 10 rebounds, was named the World Cup MVP for a second time, after having additionally received it in 2018.

The World Cup gold medal was the second for Grey, who additionally aided the USA to the highest spot on the rostrum in 2022.

Along with her World Cup gold, Younger turned the primary basketball participant ever to say IHSAA, NCAA, WNBA, World Cup, 5-on-5 Olympic and 3-on-3 Olympic championships.

France led many of the first half and held a slender 45-43 edge at halftime.

Nonetheless, over the primary three-and-a-half minutes out of the locker room, the USA squad outscored France by 9 factors, 11-2, capped by a Younger area objective that upped the rating to 54-47. Shortly thereafter, with France inside 4 factors, a Younger three-pointer prolonged the USA’s result in seven factors, 58-51. After a France basket, Grey made it 60-53 with simply over two minutes left within the third, and the Individuals continued to drag away to take a 73-57 benefit with 10 minutes to play.

The lead by no means dropped under 10 over the ultimate quarter.

Younger averaged USA team-second bests of 12.3 factors per recreation and three.2 assists per recreation, whereas grabbing 3.7 rebounds per recreation, over the six-game event. Grey, in the meantime, contributed 5.7 factors per recreation and a pair of.7 assists per recreation.

The Las Vegas Aces will resume the 2026 WNBA season once they return to play in Seattle on Sept. 17.