{"id":78358,"date":"2026-09-06T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/us-overcome-poor-shooting-and-italys-eye-poke-claims-in-edgy-fiba-world-cup-win\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:55:40","slug":"us-overcome-poor-shooting-and-italys-eye-poke-claims-in-edgy-fiba-world-cup-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/us-overcome-poor-shooting-and-italys-eye-poke-claims-in-edgy-fiba-world-cup-win\/","title":{"rendered":"US overcome poor shooting and Italy\u2019s eye-poke claims in edgy Fiba World Cup win"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>USA edge into quarter\u2019s with nervy 55-52 win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Cecilia Zandalasini claims she was poked in eye<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Caitlin Clark shoots 0-6 from the field<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jackie Young had a big fourth quarter and Breanna Stewart made her only basket of the game to put \u2060the United States up for good, helping the Americans escape with a 55-52 win over Italy in the FIBA Women\u2019s World \u2060Cup on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bUS (2-0), who clinched a quarter-final berth with the victory, led only 42-39 after three quarters and fell behind by two points on three occasions in the fourth. Stewart\u2019s jumper, assisted by Young, gave the Americans a 51-50 lead with 3:20 to go, and Young hit a \u2060floater on their next possession. Chelsea Gray made a pull-up with 1:07 left for an \u200bimportant cushion, but Italy hit a quick \u200ctwo-pointer in response to \u200ccut it to 55-52. Gray missed a shot on the next US trip but Young \u200ccorralled the rebound to help her team bleed more clock.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/06\/us-overcome-poor-shooting-and-italys-eye-poke-claims-in-edgy-fiba-world-cup-win\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA edge into quarter\u2019s with nervy 55-52 win Cecilia Zandalasini claims she was poked in eye Caitlin Clark shoots 0-6 from the field Jackie Young had a big fourth quarter and Breanna Stewart made her only basket of the game to put \u2060the United States up for good, helping the Americans escape with a 55-52 &#8230; <a title=\"US overcome poor shooting and Italy\u2019s eye-poke claims in edgy Fiba World Cup win\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/us-overcome-poor-shooting-and-italys-eye-poke-claims-in-edgy-fiba-world-cup-win\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US overcome poor shooting and Italy\u2019s eye-poke claims in edgy Fiba World Cup win\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}