See when Caitlin Clark, Staff USA will play at Girls’s FIBA World Cup

Published On: September 3, 2026

See when Caitlin Clark, Team USA will play at Women's FIBA World Cup

‘How fortunate am I?’: Caitlin Clark makes Girls’s FIBA World Cup debut Friday with Staff USA

The U.S. has dominated the ladies’s FIBA World Cup for practically 20 years, profitable the final 4 titles and eight of the final 10.

A younger American roster led by the trio of Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers and Angel Reese now complement U.S. stalwart Breanna Stewart because the staff appears to win its fifth straight championship.

The People might be lacking four-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson, who the staff introduced Monday would miss the World Cup together with Kelsey Plum. They have been changed by newcomers Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen.

Clark, the previous Iowa Hawkeyes star, is averaging 22.5 factors, 8.4 assists and three.9 rebounds via 36 video games in her third WNBA season. She’s tied for the lead league in assists and is third in scoring for the Indiana Fever, who’ve the league’s fifth-best document at 26-14.

“How fortunate am I? That is fairly particular and fairly cool, and there is so many individuals that may kill to be on this spot and have one of these alternative,” Clark stated in a narrative on the FIBA web site.

“Particularly to play for the USA staff, not to mention play within the WNBA and stay out your dream each single day. So I strive to have a look at, take a look at it the opposite approach and take into consideration how fortunate I’m and the way grateful I’m.”

The ladies’s FIBA World Cup is a 16-team match that runs September 4-13 in Berlin. The Fever will shut the WNBA common season Sept. 18 at Toronto, at residence Sept. 20 in opposition to Washington and Sept. 22 in opposition to Minnesota, and Sept. 24 at Minnesota.

America will compete in Group D on the World Cup, together with China, Italy and the Czech Republic. Clark and the US will play China at 7:15 a.m. Friday, Italy at 1:45 p.m. Sunday, and Czech Republic at 1:45 p.m. Monday.

The world has been catching as much as the People with France coming inside a degree of the U.S. within the gold medal sport on the 2024 Paris Olympics. That’s the closest any staff has come to beating the U.S. in both the Olympics or World Cup because the People final misplaced within the semifinals of the 2006 World Cup to Russia.

Together with the French staff, which has greater than a half-dozen WNBA gamers on its roster, together with Gabby Williams, Marine Johannes and Dominique Malonga, different high groups that might attain the rostrum are Australia, China and Spain, which has one other former Iowa star, Megan (Gustafson) DiLeo, on its roster. DiLeo is averaging 13.2 factors and 4.2 rebounds per sport this yr for the Portland Fireplace.

Spain will play in Group A with Germany, Japan and Mali. DiLeo and Spain will play at 10:45 a.m. Friday in opposition to Germany, 4:30 a.m. Saturday in opposition to Mali, and 10:50 a.m. Monday in opposition to Japan.