French Basketball Federation has released two lists of candidates for Youth National Teams this summer – U20 National Team that will play in European Championship and U19 National Team that will play in World Championship. U20 National Team has fifteen candidates among whom 14 are or will be 20 in this year and only one is a seventeen year old ... Read More »
USA Basketball has named their roster for U19 World Championship that will be heavily favored to go home from Lithuania this summer with gold medals. In preparations USA will play only three pretournament games in Canary Islands with the hosts Spaniards as well as Australia and Canada. USA will play in Group D with hosts Lithuanians, China and Mali. NO ... Read More »
USA college grads won the third of three tournaments against U19 National Teams. Australia defeated China to take the second place. While their scorers from that game are unknown, Casey Samuels had a good tournament with 19 & 26 points scored in the second and third games. Gong Li and Yang Hengyu were the top players for China as both ... Read More »
More than two months before the tip off of the U19 World Championship Russian NT has begun preparing for the tournament with 18 players invited to a camp near Moscow. Russia will play in Group A with Brazil, South Korea and Serbia. Players take part are as follows: Polina Sych (UMMC Junior), Daria Levchenko (UMMC Junior), Yuliya Sorokina (UMMC Junior), ... Read More »
Chinese and Australian U19 National Teams handed defeats to USA in the second of three tournaments that are held in China. Thanks to win in the game between both of them China won the tournament and was the best U19 team for the second time. Only defeat for the Chinese came at the hands of the lowly Brazil. Yang Hengyu ... Read More »
A team of American college graduates won the first of three tournaments held in China which features U19 NT’s from China, Australia and Brazil. Two of those wins were narrow one point ones against China and Australia. Of the U19 teams, the hosts were the most successful team. They defeated Brazil by 16 points and Australia by 12. Among the ... Read More »
Basketball Australia has announced twelve players who will be heading to China to play in a four team tourney with USA, China and Brazil. USA will not be playing with their U19 NT in the tourney as their trials are more than two weeks from now. Instead there will likely be some pros who aren’t did not get WNBA training ... Read More »
Brazilian Basketball Federation has released a list of twelve players that will head to China to play in three mini tournaments with China, USA and Australia. Barring injuries these players should be among the favorites to play in U19 World Championship that in July will be played in Lithuania. Best player on the Brazilian U18 NT last summer, Ramona Lyra Macedo, ... Read More »
Polish Basketball Federation has released a 16 candidate list for Polish U20 NT this summer. Led by head coach Iwona Jablonska, Poles will start preparations on May 30. In European U20 Championship, that will be held in Samsun, Turkey, Poland will play in group B with Spain, Slovak Republic and Greece. N. Last Name First Name Birthday Club Position Height ... Read More »
Young Belgian post player Emma Meesseman, who was selected 19th overall by the Washington Mystics, has decided to not wait a year or two and to head over to Washington this summer, basketfeminin confirms. Read More »
French club USO Mondeville has signed 20 year old Belgian point guard Julie Vanloo, basketfeminin writes. Read More »
LWB has learned that the 34th selection in the draft that was Ukrainian guard Alina Iagupova, selected by Los Angeles Sparks, has been voided by the league. Read More »
There were no major surprises in 2013 draft in terms of impact players. Baylor’s Brittney Griner went first overall to Phoenix Mercury. She was soon followed by Elena Delle Donne and Skylar Diggins. As was predicted the first international layer to be selected was Canadian center from Syracuse Kayla Alexander. She went to San Antonio Silver Stars eight overall. In ... Read More »
If history has taught us anything about WNBA drafts, it is that there will almost always be at least three international players, either from college or from pro leagues, that will be drafted. A quick reminder – for a player to be eligible in the draft she has to have no remaining college eligibility if she’s a student athlete or she is ... Read More »
Connecticut Huskies defeat Louisville Cardinals in NCAA Championship game to win their eight title in program’s history. That win tied Geno Auriemma, Connecticut with Tennessee and Pat Summit. After a slow paced start which saw Louisville leading 14-10 after six minutes of play, Connecticut went on a 19-0 scoring run to give themselves a 14-29 lead. Big credit for that ... Read More »
Louisville and Connecticut will duke it out for the NCAA Championship Tuesday night. In their semi Louisville came through only in the crunch time to defeated California. California appeared to be in control for most part of the game, leading by as much as 10 points. Louisville reduced the deficit immediately in the second half, but they were able to ... Read More »
NCAA Final Four participants have been determined as Connecticut, California, Notre Dame and Louisville have advanced with wins in their regionals. The final before the final will be played between Connecticut and Notre Dame, the two remaining number one seeds. Led by 21 points by Breanna Stewart, Connecticut cruised past Kentucky in their regional final. Stewart was named the most ... Read More »
The Elite Eight of the NCAA Women’s Tournament is not what anyone seemed to have predicted. After Spokane region’s number one seed Stanford was eliminated on Saturday, a day later the defending champions and odds on favorites to win it all again, Baylor were upset by Louisville. Georgia overcame a slow start and pulled in front of Stanford in the ... Read More »
Top 16 NCAA teams have been determined after the second round of NCAA tournament. Surprisingly all four sixth seeded teams advanced to the next round by eliminating all four third seeds from further tournament contention. Aaryn Ellenberg scored 27 points, Joanna McFarland added 20 points and 16 rebounds as Oklahoma upset UCLA. Adrienne Webb was 10 of 19 from the ... Read More »
First round of NCAA tournament was played over the weekend with most higher seeded teams advancing to the second round. Only four lower seeded teams advanced. In OKC regional 10 seed Creighton defeated 7 seed Syracuse. McKenzie Fujan scored 24 points on 8 of 13 shooting, Sarah Nelson had 17 points on 6 of 8 shooting and 7 rebounds for ... Read More »
64 teams that will participate in NCAA tournament that starts on Saturday were revealed on Monday as was the tournament bracket itself. Baylor, Notre Dame, UConn and Stanford were selected as the four number one seeds. UConn and Notre Dame have been pitted against each other to play for the fourth time this season if both teams were to advance ... Read More »
Last night’s Big East conference final between Notre Dame and University of Connecticut ended on a steal by Skylar Diggins and a layup by Natalie Achonwa. Read More »
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