COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – USA Basketball announced today the women's 2023 USA 3x3 World Cup Team set to compete at the 2023 FIBA 3x3 World Cup May 30-June 4 in Vienna, Austria, and LVFL Cierra Burdick is on that squad.
The team was selected by the women's USA Basketball 3x3 National Team Committee.
The 2023 USA 3x3 Women's World Cup Team features Burdick, Cameron Brink, Linnae Harper and Hailey Van Lith. Jen Rizzotti, a longtime USA Basketball 5-on-5 coach and committee member, made her 3x3 coaching debut last summer as the USA Women's Series and AmeriCup coach. Rizzotti, the president of the WNBA's Connecticut Sun, will make her 3x3 World Cup coaching debut in Vienna.Â
Burdick, who competed on her first USA 3x3 national team in 2009, will compete in her third FIBA 3x3 Women's World Cup after having represented the USA in 2014, when she won gold, and in 2022.Â
The American women will open in Pool C. Their competition tips off Tuesday, May 30, against Canada at 7 a.m. ET and Hungary at 9 a.m. ET. Pool play concludes Thursday, June 1 against Mongolia at 5 a.m. ET and Czech Republic at 7:25 a.m. ET.Â
Should the U.S. qualify, the play-in round and quarterfinals are scheduled for Saturday, June 3, followed by the semifinals and championship on Sunday, June 4. Every game will stream live on FIBA's 3x3 YouTube. For more information on the 2023 FIBA 3x3 World Cup, click here.
Different than 5-on-5, 3x3 is played on a half-court with a 10-minute game clock and 12-second shot clock. Play is continuous, as teams "clear" the ball behind the 2-point line following a made basket, defensive rebound or steal. The first team to score 21 points via 1-point field goals or 2-pointers behind the arc is victorious; or if time expires then the team leading wins.
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