August 06, 2004

US women's basketball team looks good in exhibition. : In a pre-Olympics matchup with the WNBA all-stars (the ones who weren't chosen for the national team and/or who aren't USes), the US women's team picked up a 74-58 victory against opponents who had their own pride on the line and who didn't exactly hand it to them.

My verdict: it was a great tune-up with new teammates, the larger ball and the international rules, which aren't totally strange to these women anyway (lot of past teammates, and something like nine times the international match experience that the US men have). The roster of the US women's team is scary good, with the only real holes being Swoopes, who has "acute tendinitis" and will see very limited play, even in the medal rounds, and Katie Smith, who's got a bruised knee. Olympic prelim round starts August 14 -- see schedule for matchups.

posted by lil_brown_bat to basketball at 07:02 AM - 1 comment