{"id":67965,"date":"2026-03-15T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/edwards-has-game-high-22-points-15-rebounds-as-canada-drops-decision-to-japan\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:56:50","slug":"edwards-has-game-high-22-points-15-rebounds-as-canada-drops-decision-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/edwards-has-game-high-22-points-15-rebounds-as-canada-drops-decision-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards has game-high 22 points, 15 rebounds as Canada drops decision to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/fiba\/article\/edwards-has-game-high-22-points-15-rebounds-as-canada-drops-fiba-qualifying-game-to-japan\/\">Edwards has game-high 22 points, 15 rebounds as Canada drops decision to Japan<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/fiba\/article\/edwards-has-game-high-22-points-15-rebounds-as-canada-drops-fiba-qualifying-game-to-japan\/\">https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/fiba\/article\/edwards-has-game-high-22-points-15-rebounds-as-canada-drops-fiba-qualifying-game-to-japan\/<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-15 14:48:00<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ISTANBUL \u2014 Aaliyah Edwards scored a game-high 22 points and added 15 rebounds as Canada dropped a 66-62 decision to Japan on Sunday at the FIBA women\u2019s basketball World Cup qualifying tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edwards finished eight-of-11 from the field for Canada (2-2). Shay Colley and Kayla Alexander both added 12 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mai Yamamoto led Japan (1-2) with 16 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The contest was a close one with Canada leading 21-18 after the first quarter before the two teams went into halftime tied 39-39. Japan took a 54-50 lead into the fourth which was the final margin of victory as both teams scored 12 points in the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The loss was a big one for Canada. A victory would\u2019ve automatically qualified the Canadians for the World Cup, which runs from Sept. 4-13 in Berlin, Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada takes on Australia (3-0) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/fiba\/article\/edwards-has-game-high-22-points-15-rebounds-as-canada-drops-fiba-qualifying-game-to-japan\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwards has game-high 22 points, 15 rebounds as Canada drops decision to Japan https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/fiba\/article\/edwards-has-game-high-22-points-15-rebounds-as-canada-drops-fiba-qualifying-game-to-japan\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/resizer\/v2\/BFHUPRZG4MZRBATIFLTFZGKHNY.jpg?smart=true&auth=a9f94299a3083df2b30645b5e0439c18fe81f72a449c84d050218d322bb79986&width=1200&height=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67967,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67965\/revisions\/67967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}