Crystal Dangerfield and Megan Walker will be returning to the UConn campus with silver medals after Russia rallied for an 86-82 victory in the FIBA U19 World Cup gold-medal game on Sunday.
Dangerfield had 10 points in the first five minutes to stake the U.S. jumped out to an early eight-point lead. Dangerfield, a rising sophomore guard at UConn, shook off some recent shooting struggles to make her first four field-goal attempts. However, she had difficulty finding the range as she missed 14 of her final 16 shots as her attempt to become the fifth U.S. women's player to win two U19 gold medals came up just short.