Liz Cambage s absence from next year s FIBA Women s World Cup has been confirmed with the Australian basketball star left out of the Opals squad announced on Monday.
Liz Cambage s absence from next year s FIBA Women s World Cup has been confirmed with the Australian basketball star left out of the Opals squad announced on Monday.
In the 2019-20 season, Jayco Caravans owner Gerry Ryan took over the Dandenong Rangers licence and rebranded them as the Southside Flyers. The Rangers’ green was replaced with teal. In two seasons as the Flyers, they have won two minor premierships. In 2019-20, the Flyers lost a thrilling WNBL grand final series to the University […]
The United States await the Opals after they concocted a miracle passage to the final eight in Tokyo.
Winless in their first two Olympic pool basketball games, the Opals needed to beat Puerto Rico on Monday by at least 25 points to sneak into the women s quarter-finals, ahead of Canada on for-and-against.
Pool rivals China (97-55) and Belgium (87-52) had done so easily, but it looked far from likely when Australia conceded the first eight points of the game, trailed by one at quarter time and led by just one at halftime.
But a 51-25 second half, helped by a three-pointer and fall-away jump shot from Cayla George in the last 90 seconds, rescued the most unlikely result.