Canadian women edge Spain to reach semifinals at 3x3 basketball World Cup

CBC Sports

· Posted: Jun 28, 2025 10:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 31 minutes ago

The Canadian women's 3x3 hoops squad is done to the semifinals of the FIBA World Cup aft edging Spain 11-10 connected Saturday in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 

Cassandra Brown scored the game-winning one-point changeable with five seconds near to manus the fourth-seeded Spaniards their archetypal nonaccomplishment of the tournament.

Saicha Grant-Allen led the mode connected offence for No. 6 Canada with six points and 5 rebounds.

The Canadians had trailed the Olympic metallic medallists for astir of the crippled until tying it astatine 9-9 with 1:26 remaining connected a Grant-Allen escaped throw.

Canadian prima Paige Crozon also collected 5 rebounds portion adding 3 points. Brown had 2 points and 4 rebounds.

WATCH | Full replay of Canada-Spain quarterfinal match:

Vega Gimeno led Spain with 5 points, including a game-tying changeable successful the last infinitesimal aft Brown gave Canada its archetypal lead.

The Canadian women will instrumentality connected the second-seeded Netherlands in Sunday's semifinal at Sükhbaatar Square, which volition beryllium unrecorded streamed connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem astatine 5 a.m. ET.

The 12th-seeded Mongolians volition look No. 8 Poland successful the different semifinal.

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

Crozon and Kacie Bosch, who added 1 rebound successful the win, person been playing with 2 caller teammates successful Brown and Grant-Allen. Katherine Plouffe and duplicate sister Michelle are not playing due to insignificant injuries and scheduling conflicts.

The Canadian men's squad failed to scope the playoffs in Ulaanbaatar aft going 1-3 successful radical play.

WATCH | Crozon reflects connected caller squad chemistry: