Canada's women advance to quarterfinals at 3x3 basketball World Cup

CBC Sports

· Posted: Jun 27, 2025 10:17 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

The Canadian women had small occupation advancing the quarterfinals of the FIBA 3x3 World Cup tourney aft a 18-6 triumph implicit Japan connected Friday successful Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 

Cassandra Brown led Canada's offence with eight points and 5 rebounds. Paige Crozon dominated the boards with 12 rebounds.

The Canadians volition present volition play Spain connected Saturday, which volition beryllium unrecorded streamed connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem astatine 5:25 a.m. ET.

Crozon and Kacie Bosch person been playing with 2 caller teammates successful Brown and Saicha Grant-Allen.   

Prior to this week's event, Grant-Allen played 49 games and Brown, a comparative rookie astatine 26 games.

Katherine Plouffe and duplicate sister Michelle are some sidelined with docket struggle and insignificant injuries.

WATCH | Canada takes connected Japan successful Mongolia:

Live sum of the World Cup volition beryllium disposable connected CBC Gem and CBCSports.ca through to the medal games connected Sunday.

Canadian men ousted 

The Canadian men dropped 2 games Thursday to miss the playoff cut. France defeated Canada 21-18 successful the aboriginal game. Aaron Rhooms and Grant Audu scored 8 points apiece for the Canadians.

Puerto Rico bushed Canada 21-17 aboriginal successful the day. Jerome Desrosiers had 8 points and 4 rebounds successful the nonaccomplishment that near Canada astatine 1-3.

"I'm astir arrogant of the mode we fought," Desrosiers said. "This is simply a beauteous young squad successful presumption of 3x3 experience, truthful the mode we stayed unneurotic passim the full acquisition is thing to beryllium arrogant of for sure."