Brionna Jones and Alyssa Thomas Selected to the 2022 USA Basketball Women's World Cup Qualifying Team
Uncasville, CT (February 7, 2022) – Today, Brionna Jones and Alyssa Thomas were selected to the 2022 USA Basketball Women’s World Cup Qualifying Team. The team was selected by the USA Basketball Women’s National Team Selection Committee, chaired by Connecticut Sun president Jen Rizzotti.
After a three-day training camp featuring 17 athletes, Jones and Thomas made the 12-woman roster that will be competing in the FIBA World Cup Qualifying Tournament in Washington, D.C. from February 10-12 at the Entertainment and Sports Arena. The tournament will feature games between USA, Belgium and Puerto Rico, with the US playing Belgium on February 11 at 6:30 P.M. EST and Puerto Rico on February 12 at 4:30 P.M. EST.
The pair, who have been playing side by side all off-season for ZVVZ USK Praha in the Czech Republic, have had a fantastic overseas campaign thus far. Jones is ranked second in scoring in the EuroLeague with 19.9 points per game; and Thomas is second in assists (6.2 apg), fifth in rebounds (9.0 rpg), and sixth in steals (2.1 spg).
Tickets for all games range from $10 (plus Ticketmaster fees) for general admission to $100 (plus Ticketmaster fees) for courtside seating and are on sale via Ticketmaster.com and USAB.com/tickets. Fans can save 25% by purchasing tickets online for any of the three games by using promo code “FIBA22” at checkout.
About the FIBA Women’s World Cup Qualifying Tournament
A total of 16 nations will compete in the four FIBA World Cup Qualifying Tournaments. The top three finishing teams in each of the four qualifying tournaments will advance to the 2022 FIBA World Cup, which will be held Sept. 22-Oct. 1 in Sydney, Australia. Should Australia and/or the U.S., which already are qualified for the World Cup as the host nation and 2020 Olympic gold medalist, respectively, not finish among the top three teams in their respective tournaments, only the top two teams from those groups, plus the U.S. and/or Australia will advance to compete in the FIBA World Cup.
Competing in the Belgrade, Serbia, Group A are Australia, Brazil, Serbia and South Korea; Belgrade Group B consists of China, France, Mali and Nigeria; and competing in Osaka, Japan, will be Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada and Japan.
Russia, which was originally scheduled to play in the four-team group in Washington, D.C., will instead compete against Belgium and Puerto Rico in the Dominican Republic, and will not play against the United States.
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