{"id":225552,"date":"2025-09-14T07:01:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225552\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T07:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:01:33","slug":"bigby-to-selected-to-usa-3x3-womens-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225552\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigby to Selected to USA 3&#215;3 Women\u2019s National Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FORT WORTH \u2013\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/taylor-bigby\/17497\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17497\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Bigby<\/a> is back in the red, white and blue.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe 6-1 guard was named to the USA 3&#215;3 Women&#8217;s National Team and will compete at the FIBA 3&#215;3 U23 World Cup on Sept. 17-21 in Xiong&#8217;an, China.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe selection marks Bigby&#8217;s second national call-up of the summer. Bigby made her competitive debut with USA Basketball at the FIBA 3&#215;3 U23 Nations League in July. She helped Team USA finish first in the Americas Conference.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBigby will look to earn her first gold medal and lead the USA to a repeat championship during her stay in the far east. Pool play runs\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nShe is a part of a four-player roster that includes fellow collegians Kaety L&#8217;Amoreaux (Fairfield) and Zee Spearman (Tennessee) and WNBA guard Serena Sundell. Bigby was teammates with Spearman and Sundell during Nations League play.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPlayer selections were made by the USA Basketball 3&#215;3 Women&#8217;s Junior National Team Committee.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBigby gained exposure to USA Basketball at 3x Nationals in May. She competed for TCU alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/donovyn-hunter\/17498\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17498\" target=\"_blank\">Donovyn Hunter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/natalie-mazurek\/17499\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17499\" target=\"_blank\">Natalie Mazurek<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/aaliyah-roberson\/15327\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15327\" target=\"_blank\">Aaliyah Roberson<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Las Vegas native is a key returner for the Horned Frogs ahead of the 2025-26 campaign. Bigby is one of three letter winners on the roster who made at least 20 starts for TCU during its run to a pair of Big 12 championships and an Elite Eight appearance last season. Bigby averaged two 3-pointers per game and increased her scoring average to a career-high 8.2 points per night during nonconference play. TCU is 12-0 in games when the redshirt senior scores in double figures.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTCU and Bigby open the season vs. North Carolina A&amp;T on Nov. 6. The Horned Frogs will compete in the friendly confines of Schollmaier Arena nine times over the course of nonconference play. TCU&#8217;s 24-game home winning streak is the third-longest in Division I basketball.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTipoff times and broadcast designations for each game, along with the complete Big 12 schedule, will be announced in the coming weeks.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSeason tickets are on sale through the TCU Ticket Office at 817-257-1849 or through GoFrogs.com.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Game Schedule \u2013 FIBA 3&#215;3 U23 World Cup \u2013 Pool Play<\/strong><br \/>\n*All times central<br \/>\nSept. 17 vs. Mexico \u2013 9:25 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nSept. 18 vs. Philippines \u2013 11:55 p.m.\u00a0<br \/>\nSept. 19 vs. Spain \u2013 9 p.m.\u00a0<br \/>\nSept. 20 \u2013 vs. Chile \u2013 11:30 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe top two teams from each of the four 5-team pools advance to the quarterfinals. The semifinal and medal games take place on Sept. 21.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe 2025 FIBA 3&#215;3 U23 World Cup will stream live on YouTube.com\/FIBA3x3.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH \u2013\u00a0Taylor Bigby is back in the red, white and blue. \u00a0 The 6-1 guard was named&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":225553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-225552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115201368647328959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}