USA Golden with 88-76 Win Over Australia at 2025 FIBA U19 World Cup

20 July 2025

USA 88, AUS 76

View the USA-Australia box score here.

The USA Basketball Women’s U19 National Team (7-0) defeated 88-76 Australia (5-1) for the 2025 FIBA U19 Women’s World Cup gold medal in Brno, Czechia. The Americans have now won U19 gold 11 times, including four straight.

The Americans started to assert themselves in the latter stages of the second quarter, building a 50-40 lead by the break after seeing Australia as close as 2 points in the period. The Aussies didn’t relent in the second half, getting to within four points at the top of the fourth quarter but the U.S. kept their composure to maintain the advantage and capture the gold medal. Saniyah Hall (25 points) and Jazzy Davidson (21 points) paced the USA on the night.

Spain beat Canada 70-68 for bronze medal.

Postgame Notes

On Top of the World: The Americans and Australians have squared off for the ultimate U19 prize four times, including tonight. In 1997, the U.S. prevailed 87-74 in overtime. The other matchups were more recent, starting with a 74-70 overtime victory in 2019; then a 70-52 winner in 2021; and finally, tonight’s 88-76 triumph in Czechia.

Tonight’s 12 margin of victory ranks 7th for the U.S. in U19 gold medal games. The largest victory came 99-57 against Sweden in 2007. The narrowest came in 2023, a 69-66 win against host country Spain.

All-time, the USA are 11-1 when playing for U19 gold.

A Cut Above: The U.S. entered halftime leading 50-40. In the first 20 minutes of action, the USA outrebounded Australia 29-14, including a 12-4 edge on offensive boards. As a result, the U.S. accounted for a 7-0 advantage on second chance points. Intensity on the glass carried into the second half as the USA rebounding margin grew to 55-32. Entering the game, Australia and the U.S. were the top rebounding teams with 53.0 per game.

The Best in the Bunch: Hall was named the MVP of the U19 World Cup after impressing on both ends of the court. Leading the U.S. in scoring (19.9 ppg), Hall also ranked third overall in scoring, fourth in steals per game (2.9) and eighth in blocks per game (1.1). Hall finished the week with four games with at least 20+ points scored.

Cream of the Crop: Per tradition, FIBA announces an All-Star Five of the tournament and two Americans earn the distinction. Joining MVP Hall was Sienna Betts. Hall’s accomplishments noted, her teammate Betts had a tremendous week with five double-doubles over seven games (tied for the tournament lead). Betts led the tournament in field goal percentage (58.7%) and ranked second amongst all players in rebounds per game (10.0) to go with 14.6 points per game.

A League of Their Own: Head coach Teri Moren joins an esteemed list of USA coaches to win a U18 and U19 competition in back-to-back summers (2024, 2025). The list includes Joni Taylor (2022, 2023), Jeff Walz (2018, 2019), Dawn Staley (2014, 2015), Katie Meier (2012, 2013), Jennifer Rizzotti (2010, 2011), Carol Owens (2008, 2009) and Doug Bruno (2006, 2007).

Second to None: It was a banner summer for USA Basketball as all four junior national teams won the gold medal at their respective tournaments. Since 2009, the men’s and women’s U16 and U19 junior national teams have completed the gold medal sweep five times (2009, 2013, 2019, 2021, 2025).

For the women’s program, the U16 and U19 have won gold medal efforts seven times, including each of the last four tournaments (2009, 2011, 2013, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025).

The Bee’s Knees: The 2025 squad made some updates to the USA and U19 competition record books in Brno.

The United States improved to 107-13 overall in U19 competition and have won 28 consecutive games, dating back to the first Group Phase win (79-56 vs. AUS) at the 2019 edition, to set a record U19 Women’s World Cup win streak (previously 25 by USA twice).

In the first game vs. Korea, the Americans scored a U19 World Cup record 134 points (53), breaking their previous record of 129 (twice). The USA went on to tally two more all-time top 10 scoring performances vs. China (5th, 122-57) and Israel (T-10th, 114-40).

Among individual performances, Hall (19.9 ppg) is now 1st in scoring average (previous: Diana Taurasi, 19.3, 2001).