FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2026: USA’s Paige Bueckers on Overcoming Historic Italian Challenge: “We find ways to win”
Italy’s defense, energized by a partisan crowd in Berlin, held the USA to the program’s lowest-ever shooting percentage from the floor at 29 percent, marking the squad’s worst World Cup field-goal performance at 28.6 percent. The three-point victory represented the closest margin for the Americans since a narrow win over Australia in 2010, and the ...