In the opening game of the women's FIBA Basketball World Cup, Team USA delivered a commanding 94-61 victory over China — a result that speaks less to a single night's outcome and more to the depth of a program that has long defined the sport's highest standard. Caitlin Clark, the tournament's most watched player, entered not as a starter but as a reserve, and still managed to etch her name into the record books with a debut double-double unlike any the competition had seen before. Coach Cathy Engelbert's quiet strategic choice — to hold Clark back and release her as a force of adjustment — sug