Caitlin Clark earns top honors at FIBA Women's World Cup qualifiers

Caitlin Clark appeared to beryllium backmost connected apical of her crippled aft missing astir of the 2025 play with injuries.

Clark played for Team USA successful the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup qualifying tourney this month, and connected Tuesday, she was named the MVP.

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Caitlin Clark of USA prepares to instrumentality a escaped propulsion during the Women's World Cup 2026 Qualifier betwixt Puerto Rico and USA astatine the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot connected March 12, 2026 successful San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Alexa Alejandro/FIBA via Getty Images)

The Indiana Fever star, who was making her debut with the elder team, averaged 11.6 points and 6.4 assists per crippled arsenic the Americans went a cleanable 5-0. The squad won games against Senegal, Puerto Rico, Italy, New Zealand and Spain to circular retired the tournament.

It’s the 2nd MVP grant for Clark connected the satellite stage. She received the grant erstwhile she was a portion of the FIBA U19 Women’s Basketball World Cup successful 2021.

Clark has taken a agelong travel backmost to the hoops tribunal arsenic she lone played successful 13 games for the Fever during the 2025 season. She averaged 16.5 points, 8.8 assists and 5 rebounds per game, but an wounded close earlier the All-Star interruption threw her disconnected course.

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Caitlin Clark (17) brings the shot upcourt during a grooming campy for the U.S women's nationalist hoops team, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, successful Durham, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, File)

The sharpshooting defender suffered a groin strain and past a bony bruise successful her ankle. The Fever intimately monitored her betterment and yet ruled her retired for the remainder of the regular season.

"I've ever been a idiosyncratic that's going to conscionable trust connected my work. I consciousness similar it's surely made maine enactment harder," the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year said earlier this month, referencing her wounded setbacks.

"But that's besides astir apt the portion that benignant of stunk astir it is I felt similar I enactment successful truthful overmuch clip and truthful overmuch vigor going into past play and then, obviously, lone appeared successful astir 13 games."

Despite worries astir being rusty, Clark scored 17 points successful her archetypal crippled against Senegal. She nailed 4 3-pointers and it acceptable the signifier for however the remainder of the tourney would go.

Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark (22) gestures to the assemblage during the archetypal fractional of a WNBA hoops crippled against the Connecticut Sun Tuesday, July 15, 2025, successful Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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The FIBA Women’s World Cup volition commencement connected Sept. 4 and tally done Sept. 13.

Fox News’ Chantz Martin contributed to this report.

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