Now that the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022 in Sydney has concluded and the dust (and joyful confetti) has settled, we can take a step back and take in the whole event, including the great play of the athletes.
You can see the top scorers in the Women’s World Cup in all the key statistics categories below.
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Sarah Michel of France averaged 2.5 steals per game to lead the league. Alyssa Thomas, the tournament’s Best Defensive Player and runner-up to Michel, averaged 2.4 steals per game and led the tournament in total thefts with 19. TISSOT MVP A’Ja Wilson rounded out the top three with 2.2 steals per game, making him one of just three players to average over 2 steals per game.
Some of the strongest shot blockers in recent memory were on display at this iteration of the Women’s World Cup. Players like Han Xu and Ezi Magbegor had games with five blocks. Diana Balayera of Mali led the tournament with an average of 1.8 blocks per game.
At the Women’s World Cup, three players had over six assists per game on average. Belgians Julie Allemand and Emma Meesseman are in the top three in this category; both averaged 6.3 assists per game. However, Serbia’s Yvonne Anderson was the league leader with 6.5 assists per game. Australian Steph Talbot, a member of the All-Star Five presented by Google who dished out an average of 5.3 assists per game, led the league with 42 assists.
Mali’s Sika Kone was the only player to average double digits in the Women’s World Cup, and she did it with an amazing 11.8 rebounds per game, therefore she won the race for rebounding queen by a wider margin than in the other categories mentioned above. Kayla Alexander finished with a respectable 9.7 rebounds per game while being just three short of averaging a double-double. With 77 boards, Alexander was also the game’s leader in that category.
There were a lot of high-scoring performances in this year’s Women’s World Cup, and all five of these players were in the top five in terms of points per game. One of the tournament’s most surprising teams was Puerto Rico, and one of the tournament’s most surprising players was Arella Guirantes, who led the league in scoring in both per-game average (18.2) and total points scored (109).
Kang LeeSeul of Korea, who scored a then-record 37 points in a single game against Bosnia and Herzegovina, was hard on Guirantes’ heels, averaging 17.2 points per game of her own. Wilson, the winner of the TISSOT Most Valuable Player award, had another Top 5 appearance here, scoring 17.2 points per game and a total of 103 points.
