WNBL: Margie and the 4,000
ADELAIDE LIghtning stalwart Margie Williamson will receive WNBL Life Membership tomorrow night while her club hopes for 4,000 fans to roll up for their do-or-die semi final Game 2 against Southside.
Tall Blacks depth KO's Boomers
NEW Zealand's Tall Blacks flexed their experienced international muscles tonight to give rookie coach Pero Cameron a winning debut over arch rival Australia 108-98 in their Asia Cup qualifier in Brisbane.
Poddering around: Kia, WNBL, NBL, it's all here
CANBERRA has taken over as our WNBL championship favourite, we're still tipping a Sydney-Perth NBL Final and what is up with the Asia Cup? Brad Rosen and I sink our teeth into this and more at our weekly podcast.
Lightning banking on home crowd support
DOWN 0-1 in its best-of-three WNBL semi final against regular season champion Southside, Adelaide is hoping for another huge attendance for Saturday's home Game 2 to help it keep the series alive.
WTF is FIBA and BA doing?
CORRECT me if I'm wrong but isn't the Tokyo Olympic Games the pinnacle for basketball in 2020? So what the hell is FIBA doing scheduling meaningless, costly and downright stupid "Asia Cup qualifying" games THIS WEEK?
Mercedes drives Flyers to 1-0 lead
MERCEDES Russell tonight loaded the WNBL regular season champion Southside Flyers onto her shoulders and carried them to a 68-65 semi final Game 1 win over Adelaide, scoring 20 points and snaring 19 rebounds.
Seekamp, Hurst still in doubt
CONTRARY to reports suggesting otherwise, Adelaide Lightning captain Nicole Seekamp is under a major cloud ahead of tomorrow night's WNBL Game 1 of the semi final series against regular season champion Southside at Dandenong.
Fine Cotton makes it a double
PERTH's American superstar guard Bryce Cotton tonight became the NBL club's first multiple winner of the Most Valuable Player award when he collected the Andrew Gaze Trophy as the league's 2019-20 winner.
The Week That Was: Feb.9-16
THIS has no doubt been one of the most dramatic weeks in basketball, with the Opals qualifying for Tokyo and Bryce Cotton and Kia Nurse claiming the NBL and WNBL's Most Valuable Player awards respectively.
Pardon my French as Caps snatch 1-0 lead
OLIVIA Epoupa might just prove the least heralded WNBL recruit of the year but the French superstar simply sizzled today as the defending champion Capitals seized a 1-0 semi final series lead over Melbourne in Canberra.

