FIBA World Ranking<\/a>. The top four teams are in one pot, the next four are in another, and so on.<\/p>\nFrom each pot, a team will be sorted into a group.<\/p>\n
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There are a few more restrictions:<\/p>\n
Germany will be in Group A.
\nA group cannot have more than two teams from Europe.\u00a0
\nA group cannot have more than one team from Africa, the Americas and Asia\/Oceania.<\/p>\n
Who is the defending champion?<\/p>\n
The United States has won the last four FIBA World Cup events.<\/p>\n
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Team USA is ranked No. 1 in the world.<\/p>\n
Who is coaching the United States?<\/p>\n
Kara Lawson, Duke\u2019s head coach, is the USA Basketball Women\u2019s National Team for the 2025-28 cycle.<\/p>\n
Lawson\u2019s assistant coaches at an April training camp were Niele Ivey (Notre Dame), Natalie Nakase (Golden State Valkyries), Shea Ralph (Vanderbilt University), Nate Tibbetts (Phoenix Mercury) and Stephanie White (Indiana Fever).<\/p>\n
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Nakase, Tibbetts and White were court coaches at the Women\u2019s National Team training camp in December and were assistant coaches at the World Cup Qualifying Tournament earlier this month.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Does the USA have a roster yet?<\/p>\n
The most recent roster participated in an April camp and included 15 players.<\/p>\n
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Monique Billings
\nMikayla Blakes
\nCameron Brink
\nPaige Bueckers
\nRae Burrell
\nVeronica Burton
\nNapheesa Collier
\nStefanie Dolson
\nRickea Jackson
\nSabrina Ionescu
\nAzura Stevens
\nBrittney Sykes
\nKayla Thornton
\nJuJu Watkins
\nA\u2019ja Wilson<\/p>\n
Will Caitlin Clark play in the FIBA World Cup?<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not yet known, but Clark did make her U.S. senior national team debut earlier this year during the 2026 FIBA Women\u2019s World Cup Qualifying in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n
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Clark won MVP honors at that tournament.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team USA celebrates after the United States’ game on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, against Spain in Puerto Rico.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,292530,85,45198],"class_list":{"0":"post-620171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-latestnews","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-team-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620171","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=620171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}