{"id":764899,"date":"2026-06-28T02:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764899\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T02:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:29:13","slug":"canada-falls-to-australia-in-3x3-womens-series-basketball-final-in-poitiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764899\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada falls to Australia in 3×3 Women’s Series basketball final in Poitiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada came within one basket of capturing the FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series Poitiers title before falling 20-19 to Australia in a thrilling overtime final at Place du Mar\u00e9chal Leclerc in France. <\/p>\n

Canada battled toe-to-toe with one of the world’s top 3×3 teams in a title game that lived up to expectations. Paige Crozon led the Canadians with 11 points, repeatedly delivering in key moments to keep Canada within striking distance before overtime.<\/p>\n

Australia’s Emma Clarke scored eight points and set up the winning basket in the extra session, finding Hannah Hank for the game-winning score to secure Australia’s second Women’s Series title of 2026.<\/p>\n

Despite the narrow defeat, Canada capped an outstanding tournament with another podium finish. <\/p>\n

Canada was dominant throughout the tournament, opening with convincing Pool B victories over Hungary and Beijing before defeating Paris R\u00e9gion IDF 21-11 in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

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FIBA 3×3 Basketball Women’s Series Poitiers semifinals: Canada vs. Ottawa<\/p>\n

Watch Canada take on Ottawa in the semifinals of the FIBA 3×3 Basketball Women’s Series stop in Poitiers, France.<\/p>\n

The semifinal produced one of the tournament’s most dramatic contests as Canada faced fellow Canadians, in Team Ottawa. After building a 13-8 advantage, Canada saw Ottawa storm back to force overtime. Ottawa briefly grabbed the lead in the extra period, but Cassandra Brown and Crozon answered with consecutive baskets to complete a dramatic 17-16 victory and book Canada’s place in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-764899","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\/764899","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=764899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}