{"id":110587,"date":"2026-02-28T09:58:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominican-republic-surprises-the-u-s-and-leads-group-a-towards-the-2027-basketball-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:58:32","slug":"dominican-republic-surprises-the-u-s-and-leads-group-a-towards-the-2027-basketball-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dominican-republic-surprises-the-u-s-and-leads-group-a-towards-the-2027-basketball-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic surprises the U.S. and leads Group A towards the 2027 Basketball World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dominican Republic Surprises United States and Leads Group in Basketball World Cup Qualifiers<\/h2>\n\nThe Dominican Republic&#8217;s basketball team achieved a resounding victory by defeating the United States with a score of 87-79, a result that establishes a three-way tie at the top of Group A of the Second Qualifying Window for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027.\n\nThe meeting took place at the Frontwave Arena, located in Oceanside, California.\n\n<h2>Jassel P\u00e9rez and the Dominican Domain<\/h2>\n\nThe Dominican offensive was led by guard Jassel P\u00e9rez, who had an outstanding performance with 20 points and 10 rebounds, achieving a double-double and adding four assists. Other key players were Anderson Garc\u00eda, with 14 points and six rebounds, Jhery Matos and Gelvis Solano, both with 13 points, with Solano contributing eight assists. \u00c1ngel Luis Delgado also contributed with 11 points and eight rebounds.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">United States: Brandon Knight Shines<\/h2>\n\n\nFrom the American team, Brandon Knight led the offense with 20 points, followed by Dakota Mathias with 12. James Wiseman and Elfrid Payton Jr. scored nine points each.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Group A: A Tie at the Top<\/h2>\n\n\nWith this result, the Dominican Republic, the United States, and Mexico share first place in Group A with a 2-1 record. It is anticipated that these three teams will advance to the next qualifying phase, while Nicaragua faces a difficult situation, still without victories (0-3).\n\nOn the same day, Mexico defeated Nicaragua with a score of 99-72 at the Alexis Arg\u00fcello Sports Complex in Managua.\n\nThe next challenge for the Dominican team will be against Nicaragua on Sunday, March 1st at 9:30 PM (Dominican Republic time).\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The leader N\u00e9stor Garc\u00eda, known as \u201cCh\u00e9\u201d, expressed his satisfaction with the performance of his players after the important victory.<\/p><cite>N\u00e9stor Garc\u00eda<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn this qualifying stage, 16 countries from the Americas compete, seeking one of the seven available spots for the 2027 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nThe United States selection will visit the Dominican Republic in the third window, scheduled for Friday, July 3rd at the Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto, in Santo Domingo.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Republic Surprises United States and Leads Group in Basketball World Cup Qualifiers The Dominican Republic&#8217;s basketball team achieved a resounding victory by defeating the United States with a score of 87-79, a result that establishes a three-way tie at the top of Group A of the Second Qualifying Window for the FIBA Basketball World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[389,1271,7445,641],"class_list":{"0":"post-110587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dominican-republic","10":"tag-fiba","11":"tag-united-states"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}