Brenda Frese confirms that her team is in a transition period. But she hopes with the help of her French international player that the progression should continue next season. Five new players will join next year and she is hoping to be better prepared against rivals Blue Devils from Duke … [Read more...]
Spartak Moscow Region defend EuroLeague Women
Spartak Moscow Region+ACY-nbsp+ADs won a fourth consecutive EuroLeague Women crown on Sunday by beating Final Four hosts. Diana Taurasi's great weekend continued, she followed up her 37-point tally against UMMC Ekaterinburg in the semi-final with a game-high 29 against Ros Casares as Spartak Moscow won … [Read more...]
Diana Taurasi fires Spartak Moscow Region into Euroleague women final
Diana Taurasi exploded on Friday night with the following numbers, 37 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists in 38 minutes of play for Spartak Moscow.Her performance helped Spartak Moscow to eliminate UMMC Ekaterinburg from the Euroleague competition (87-79).Spartak Moscow are hoping to make it four … [Read more...]
Sony Athinaikos win EuroCup Women
Candince Wiggins and Ruth Riley will return to the WNBA this season with some excessive luggage after winning the Eurocup women competition with Sony Athinaikos.Sony Athinaikos won the first leg last week (65-57) and despite losing (53-57) in the return leg front of their home fans won the … [Read more...]
1993 EuroLeague Women Final with Bridgette Gordon
Apr 6, Basketball news: Time to remember Laure Ecard
Two years ago the basketball news headlines in France was about a road accident on the A 8 motorway that resulted in the death of 15-year old Laure Ecard and in serious injuries to three of her team-mates. Last year during a civic ceremony the town of Nice paid homage to the Nice Cavigal … [Read more...]
Apr 5, Poinonnet 2010: France U16 defend title
France beat Spain (43-35) in the final match of the tournament. Poland beat Belgium in an exciting match game. Poland had the better start and led (18-9) after the first quarter. The Players from Belgium did not give in and with five minutes left to play Belgium had the lead (56-54). However they … [Read more...]
Apr 3, Poinonnet: Spain U16 beat Belgium U16
Spain put together a 15-0 run to close the first period (28-13) and never looked back as they went on to win (87-51) with all 12 players scoring. France beat Poland (62-45). More details from these games and the rest of the other matches will be covered in our youth section over the next two days. … [Read more...]
Eurocup Women: Four teams qualify for the semi-final
Two teams from Russia, one from Greece and one from Germany with many players from America on their rosters are in the hunt for a place in the Euroleague Women competition next season. Duke university basketball hall of fame's Sheana Mosch is one of two players in double digits from Nadezhda, … [Read more...]
USA drawn in Group A for the FIBA U17 World Championship for Women
Barbara Nelson, Mike Armstrong and Dorena Bingham were confirmed by USA Basketball as the coaches for the first FIBA U17 world basketball championship for women to be held in France.Nelson resumes the role as head coach in France later in the year as she had already served as head coach during the … [Read more...]