{"id":879806,"date":"2026-09-04T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/879806\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:40:13","slug":"duke-in-the-fiba-womens-basketball-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/879806\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke in the FIBA Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 \u2013 September 4, 2026 | Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n<p>Miela Sowah | No. 3 Australia 70, No. 13 Puerto Rico 54 <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMiela Sowah made her World Cup debut for Australia, playing 42 seconds and going 0-of-1 in the 16-point victory for the Opals.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Gray, <a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/kara-lawson\/5407\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5407\" target=\"_blank\">Kara Lawson<\/a> | No. 1 USA 94, No. 4 China 61<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLawson captured her first FIBA World Cup victory as a head coach as the United States rode a 49-29 halftime lead to a 33-point win. Ranked fourth in the FIBA World Rankings, China is arguably the toughest group game for the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Gray earned the start and provided the dime for the game&#8217;s opening basket. She played 15 minutes, finishing with five points, two assists and a steal.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Balogun | No. 15 Korea 99, No. 8 Nigeria 81<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBalogun started the game and played 19 minutes. She finished with three points, two rebounds and one assist. Nigeria is back in action Sept. 5 at 8 a.m. (ET), versus Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Day 1 \u2013 September 4, 2026 | Berlin, Germany Miela Sowah | No. 3 Australia 70, No. 13&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-879806","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\/879806","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=879806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}