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Maria Gakdeng is on a heater for South Sudan as they are on a Cinderella run at FIBA’s African championships!

Quarterfinal win over Egypt: 19 pts(8 of 15), 24 rbs (!), 2 blk​

Semifinal win over Uganda:12 pts (6 of 8), 13 rbs, 2 blk​

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Story here:

Uganda vs South Sudan - Quarter-Finals - FIBA Women's AfroBasket 2025 | FIBA Basketball

Uganda vs South Sudan - Browse boxscore, game information & live stats, team rosters, photos and video highlights

www.fiba.basketball

check out her press conference here:


her FIBA profile here:

Maria Teresa Gakdeng - South Sudan - Player Profile - FIBA Women's AfroBasket 2025 | FIBA Basketball

All detailed statistics, points, assists and rebounds of Gakdeng - South Sudan from FIBA Women's AfroBasket 2025

www.fiba.basketball

they play again vs Mozambique in the semis at 8AM today (Friday 8/1)

looks like you can watch the tourney and replays for 5 bucks here:

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[3397char]

Maria Teresa Gakdeng - South Sudan - Player Profile - FIBA Women's AfroBasket 2025 | FIBA Basketball

All detailed statistics, points, assists and rebounds of Gakdeng - South Sudan from FIBA Women's AfroBasket 2025

www.fiba.basketball

South Sudan wins bronze in the FIBA Afrobasket championship, a tourney where they had never won a game Before this year.

and Gakdeng is the leading rebounder in the tourney and 2nd most important player on her team, a team she seems to have joined for the first time 2 weeks ago.

so cool

 

[3397char]

Maria also lead the tourney in blocks and blocks per game!

 

[3397char]

Wrapping up the Maria story, here is an article on Maria's journey posted on the Goheels site https://goheels.com/news/2025/8/6/w...eng-showing-up-on-world-stage-for-south-sudan

 

[3397char]

Littlefield gets married at Princeton:

 

[Jriv23]

Thanks for sharing and posting. From the side her husband looks a little bit like Larry Bird. He looks to be pretty tall too. Congratulations to the both of them.

 

[AlWoodfor2]

Thanks for sharing and posting. From the side her husband looks a little bit like Larry Bird. He looks to be pretty tall too. Congratulations to the both of them.

I can see what you’re talking about there.

 

[3397char]

Ustby logs 20 pts, 13 Rbs, 4 stls in her pro debut.

 

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[Jriv23]

Thanks for sharing and the updates for our Pro Heels.

 

[tarboy]

Go Lexi, AU and Maria !

 

[3397char]

Must be Halloween in Italy too...

 

[3397char]

Ustby MVP of the league title match.

 

[6string]

I understood “MVP” and that was it. Of course that’s all that matters.

 

[Nate1972]

𝟤𝟨 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪 𝘦 𝟣𝟤 𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘻𝘪

 

[KenbudUNC]

Alyssa is leading the league in scoring. Madison Hayes (NC State) is the second leading scorer

 

[Mtns2Sea]

𝟤𝟨 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪 𝘦 𝟣𝟤 𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘻𝘪

Show off!!!

 

[3397char]

I understood “MVP” and that was it. Of course that’s all that matters.

Translation:
"The MVP of the game is Alyssa Ustby. .

With a double-double of 26 points and 12 rebounds, Alyssa Ustby earned the Panthers MVP title in the match against Battipaglia."

Here league stats and rank:
Points
19.6 #1
Rebounds
9.0 #3
assists
1.6 #41
Steals
1.8 #12

Pretty high in turnovers at 3 per game.

 

[3397char]

Donarski’s team in Hungary is doing pretty well: 7-4, they appear to be really balanced

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[tarboy]

Glad our women are doing well. I miss seeing them in Carolina Blue but I am glad they are great representatives of our University.

 

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[FanaticHeel]

LEADER

 

[1stGenerationHeel]

Anyone know how well these ladies are paid playing overseas?

 

[Jriv23]

It depends on what level / division/ league/ and country they are playing in. Russia pays their players very well. I remember D.T got paid 1 million when she played for their top league. I know a lot of WNBA players play for the top leagues in the off season and they get paid a lot. Russia is just one that I can think of they paid them at least 6 figures a season. I think the league that our players are playing would probably be in the middle and low high tier. Australia pays very well too.