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Caitlin Clark needed one game to break a 28-year-old FIBA World Cup mark
It took Caitlin Clark all of 25 minutes to end a USA Basketball drought that stretched back to 1998.Before Clark handed out 11 assists in Team USA's win over China on Friday, no American player had registered double-digit assists in a FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup game since Dawn Staley in 1998.Staley is now the head coach at South Carolina. Clark is in the third year of her own WNBA career -- and just starting her first competitive tournament with the United States' senior national team.MORE: Caitlin Clark introduced herself to the FIBA World Cup as only she couldClark registered a 14-point, 11-assist double-double against China as the United States rolled to a 94-61 win in Berlin, Germany. More impressively, the Indiana Fever star committed no turnovers, and the US was a plus-30 in h
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