WBB - Incoming Freshman Sahara Williams Helps USA to Gold Medal

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Sahara Williams, the highly recruited frontcourt player (#23 Prospect) from Waterloo, IA, was selected for the second time in consecutive years to represent Team USA in the 2023 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup in Debrecen, Hungary, from Aug. 30-Sept. 3. Williams was also selected for the She previously contributed to the 2022 3x3 World Cup.2022 team that won the Gold Medal.

Here is the Sooner staff writers article about the selection of Williams for Team USA.

https://soonersports.com/news/2023/8/11 ... -world-cup

The play in the FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup completed yesterday with Team USA winning the Gold Medal over France 22-16.

The 3x3 play is a bit different as each bucket from the outside of the arc is worth 2 points and each bucket inside the arc is worth 1 point. Games are played with the first team to 21 winning or the team ahead at the end of play. It is much like the half-court playground basketball that is played.

The 2023 3x3 U18 National Team included Katie Fiso, Sarah Strong, Mikaylah Williams and Oklahoma's Williams. Kelly Carruthers, an assistant coach on last summer's 3x3 World Cup team that Williams played on, will lead the team as head coach.

Team USA played 7 games and won each game. Mikaylah Williams, LSU, scored 54 points in the 7 games with Sarah Strong (24 Grad) scoring 46, Sahara Williams (Oklahoma) scoring 27 and Katie Fiso (Oregon) scoring 19.

Here is the Sooner staff wrtiers article about the TEAM USA Gold Medal success.

https://soonersports.com/news/2023/9/3/ ... gold-medal

Congrats to Team USA 3x3 Women's BB Team and to our Sooner, Sahara Williams!

Boomer Sooner!