{"id":543413,"date":"2026-03-18T00:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543413\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:26:10","slug":"team-usa-defeats-spain-to-go-undefeated-in-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543413\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Defeats Spain to Go Undefeated in World Cup Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6y\">Team USA officially went undefeated in the FIBA World Cup qualifiers this year as they beat Spain on Tuesday evening, 84\u201370, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The previous Team USA qualifying results are as follows: Senegal (110\u201346), Puerto Rico (91\u201348), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/team-usa-vs-italy-live-updates-caitlin-clark-could-get-first-starting-nod-fiba-world-cup-qualifiers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Italy (93\u201359)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/team-usa-vs-new-zealand-live-updates-fiba-world-cup-qualifiers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand (101\u201346)<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"71\">Kahleah Copper was on fire from beyond the arc on Tuesday, scoring a team-high 20 points with four three-pointers. Kelsey Plum was a star off the bench, putting up 18 points and three three-pointers. Dearica Hamby shined throughout the contest, finishing with 14 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"74\">Caitlin Clark finished with seven points and seven assists, one of which went to Paige Bueckers for quite the highlight of the matchup\u2014from one WNBA Rookie of the Year to another.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"77\">As a reminder, the U.S. women have already qualified for the World Cup\u2014which will take place in September in Germany\u2014but they officially \u201cbooked\u201d their trip with these dominant wins.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7a\">Sports Illustrated followed Tuesday\u2019s game live, check out all the updates below.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA vs. Spain: Live Play-by-Play UpdatesMore WNBA from Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team USA officially went undefeated in the FIBA World Cup qualifiers this year as they beat Spain on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-543413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}