2025 USA Women's AmeriCup Team

[JellyBean]

The shot where Argentina thought they would come away with the win.



Swords' lay up to take the lead with seconds left in the game.

Gosh darn it! Syla Swords is scrappy! I love that she follows her shot. Make or miss. She is following that shot and getting a rebound/put back. Michigan should make some noise in the Big Ten this season.

 

[cancontent]

Gosh darn it! Syla Swords is scrappy! I love that she follows her shot. Make or miss. She is following that shot and getting a rebound/put back. Michigan should make some noise in the Big Ten this season.

Here's how it was drawn up.

 

[WBBTakeover]

Big congrats to the kids! I didn't believe, but I'm glad that I was proven wrong.

Mikayla Blakes is something else! Folks talk about how "generational" the 2027 draft is, but 2028, at least at the top, is looking better by the day.

 

[Bjbod]

I thought it was a good team win. Standout performances tonight from Blakes, Hidalgo, Stuelke, and Edwards. VanSlooten and Miles probably deserve a shout-out too.

Brazil needs some guards who can compliment Cardoso and Dantas... the USA's depth and guard play was the separator in this game.

Homer post but proud of how Hannah Stuelke battled Dantas and Cardoso down low, especially late in the game. Gave up 2-5" to those two.

 

[GamecockFam]

Homer post but proud of how Hannah Stuelke battled Dantas and Cardoso down low, especially late in the game. Gave up 2-5" to those two.

Honestly she was the best counter to Cardoso out of all the forwards/post. It makes me wonder if her prior scouting and playing experience against Cardoso (while she was at South Carolina) helped.

 

[Bone Dog]

The U.S.-Brazil game was eye opening. As everyone has noted, the U.S. guard play was great while the Brazil post play was solid given the way FIBA refs call games. I don’t know what to say about how Miles Hidalgo and Blakes will do in the W. but I have a feeling all the US players will return to D1 in November with a good deal more aggressiveness after this experience. They got roughed up quite a bit and fought through it. I suspect these will be formative experiences for them.

 

[TheFarmFan]

There’s been a lot chatter (mostly LSU fans) regarding Flaujae’s lack of minutes. To the point in her Instagram post, she calls out the game on December 4th vs Duke and Kara.

I think a lot of people have forgotten that these USA games arent all star games where mins are evenly distributed. How you perform in group play, highly dictates your mins bc it shows the coaches who is ready to go and who isn’t. Flaujae wasn’t impressive the first two games. I would assume maybe nerves with a combination of this being her first time competing with USA basketball and not being used to the pace and physicality of international play. But she didn’t stand out as someone who should be getting significant minutes. We saw similar situations in the Olympics last summer on the women’s side with Copper and Loyd and on the men’s side with Tatum and Halliburton. Theres 12 people on the team, your consistent performers are the ones that are going to get the minutes. Just seems to me it’s been blown out of proportion.

That said, Copper's hero ball saved our bacon in the championship game when (almost) nothing else was working, and major kudos to Reeve for recognizing that early and making the adjustment. Just more proof she's one of the most complete coaches in womens basketball this side of Geno.