Canada's women play Friday for chance at quarterfinal berth at 3x3 basketball World Cup

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 25, 2025 10:14 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Canada's women's squad dropped some of its games Wednesday astatine the FIBA 3x3 hoops World Cup and volition present person to spell the play-in way for a changeable astatine the quarterfinals.

Cassandra Brown had six points successful a 14-13 nonaccomplishment to France, wherever a mid-game wounded to Saicha Grant-Allen disrupted Canada's momentum. Grant-Allen had 5 points portion Paige Crozon scored two.

Despite the injury, Grant-Allen returned to station 5 points and 8 rebounds successful a 16-14 nonaccomplishment to Hungary. Crozon added five, with Brown finishing with four.

The sixth-ranked Canadians opened the tourney Monday with wins implicit Austria and Latvia successful Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

WATCH | Canada places 3rd successful Pool C aft 2-point nonaccomplishment to Hungary:

Canada finished 3rd successful Pool C and volition look the second-place squad from Pool B connected Friday.

The 17th-ranked Canadian men's team, sporting a 1-1 grounds aft splitting games with Austria and China, returns to enactment Thursday against France and Puerto Rico.

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