{"id":10051,"date":"2025-07-21T04:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10051\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T04:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:53:09","slug":"usa-standout-saniyah-hall-crowned-tissot-most-valuable-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10051\/","title":{"rendered":"USA standout Saniyah Hall crowned TISSOT Most Valuable Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRNO (Czechia) &#8211; Saniyah Hall was named the TISSOT Most Valuable Player of the FIBA U19 Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup 2025 after leading USA to an astonishing 11th title.<\/p>\n<p>The versatile and super-talented Hall, who is also eligible to play at the next edition of the competition in 2027, was on-fire from start to finish in the tournament. <\/p>\n<p>In the Final she showed why she was a worthy winner of the individual accolade with a monstrous display to take her team past Australia <a class=\"_1pmct9j0\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-u19-womens-basketball-world-cup-2025\/games\/126702-USA-AUS#boxscore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">88-76<\/a>. She accrued an eye-popping efficiency of 35 after recording 25 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Saniyah Hall led the All-Star Five after registering an average performance efficiency valuation of 24.0 across the 2025 edition. This was achieved after a phenomenal return of 19.9 points, 6.4 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.9 steals per game. She also shot brilliantly too &#8211; netting 52.6 percent from the field and shooting 39.3 percent from three-point range. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Deas, Somto Okafor, Saniyah Hall and Sienna Betts. Syla Swords is not present<\/p>\n<p>Hall was joined on the All-Star Five by USA teammate Sienna Betts along with Australian guard Bonnie Deas, Spanish ace Somtochukwu Okafor and Canadian leader Syla Swords. <\/p>\n<p>Betts was a constant problem for opposing defenses from the first jump-ball. She eventually harvested a tournament double-double of 14.6 points and 10.0 rebounds per outing, also blocking 2.1 shots per game and shooting a fantastic 58.7 percent from the floor.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Deas was instrumental in Australia making their run to the title game and averaged 12.3 points, 7.7 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game. <\/p>\n<p>Okafor put in a special double-double display in the Third Place Game to propel Spain to bronze and the guard averaged 12.5 points and 6.5 rebounds in the competition. <\/p>\n<p>Swords completes the lineup after finishing the tournament for fourth placed Canada averaging 15.9 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game. <\/p>\n<p>FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRNO (Czechia) &#8211; Saniyah Hall was named the TISSOT Most Valuable Player of the FIBA U19 Women&#8217;s Basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-10051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}