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Former Parkway and current LSU star Mikaylah Williams hit the winning shot as the USA defeated Australia 21-20 in the FIBA 3\u00d73 Women\u2019s World Cup gold medal game Sunday in Warsaw, Poland.<\/p>\n
Williams was named the tournament\u2019s MVP. The USA went 7-0 including four victories in pool play. She finished with 46 points.<\/p>\n
Williams hit a two-point shot (equivalent to a 3-pointer in 5\u00d75) with about 31 seconds left. That gave the USA their 21st point and the victory.<\/p>\n
Australia had rallied from 17-12 deficit and taken a 20-19 lead on a two-point shot with 52 seconds left. The USA\u2019s Milaysia Filwiley, a teammate of Williams at LSU, missed a two-pointer with 47 seconds left but she chased down the rebound.<\/p>\n
She passed the ball to Williams who hit the game-winner after making a move to get open.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Fulwiley led the team with nine points. She also had two rebounds. Williams had four points and three rebounds.<\/p>\n
Earlier Sunday, the USA edged Azerbaijan 19-18 in overtime in the semifinals. Williams scored a team-high nine points and had three rebounds.<\/p>\n
Williams hit a two-point shot with 10 seconds left to give the USA a 17-15 lead. Azerbaijan tied it at the buzzer.<\/p>\n
Sahara Williams scored in overtime to put the USA up one. After Azerbaijan tied it, Mikaylah missed a two-pointer. Fulwiley and an Australia player scrambled for the loose ball. A jump ball was called with possession going to the USA.<\/p>\n
Mikaylah then hit a jumper from just behind the free throw line for the victory.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"13 Former Parkway and current LSU star Mikaylah Williams hit the winning shot as the USA defeated Australia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-721861","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\/721861","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=721861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}