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SCORIGAMI: Canada 127, United States 118 is the first 127-118 game in FIBA World Cup history

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Final · September 10, 2023

For the first time ever, FIBA World Cup produced a 127-118 final. Canada beat United States on September 10, 2023, filling a cell that had stayed empty across 1,208 games.

Where 127-118 sits among nearby FIBA World Cup scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 98-63, Latvia over Lithuania on September 9, 2023, 1 day earlier. This is FIBA World Cup's 43rd new final score of the 2023 season, and the grid now holds 7.6 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 128-118 had still never happened and 127-119 had still never happened. It lands on the high-scoring frontier of the grid, the sparse territory that only fills in on the rare night the points pile up.

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