Basketball: The University of Limerick's stranglehold over women's basketball in Ireland continues.

China are playing Russia in the bronze medal match of the women's basketball.

The men's and women's basketball teams will start as strong favourites.

But, before the main course, an entree - it's Australia v Russia in the women's basketball.

Photo: Pacific Games Service Guam and American Samoa won gold in the men's and women's basketball finals.

Some will always view his work championing women's basketball and the development of basketball for young women with a cynical eye.

The New Zealand women's basketball coach Kennedy Kereama has largely gone for experience in naming his squad for World Cup qualifying.

From that came a wider commitment to women's basketball, advising the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks, holding coaching camps for younger players.

Prairie View A&M University announced Wednesday that women's basketball coach Dawn Brown would not be returning to lead the program next season.

Photo: Supplied It's the first time since 2015 that the New Zealand women's basketball team will play in their own back yard.

The Irish women's basketball team came within a single point of qualifying for the challenge round of the European Championships in Tripoli, Greece yesterday.

Latest - China has outplayed New Zealand 94-71 in the four-nation women's basketball Olympic qualifying tournament in Auckland today.

The New Zealand women's under-17 basketball team has made history in being the country's first women's basketball team to qualify for a World Cup.

Tauraki Rongo: Winning the Oceania cup in 2018 have placed this Cook Islands women's basketball team as medal favourites at the coming Pacific games.

Success at European level is something that the Irish women's basketball team have been able to smell but not quite taste in recent years.

The Irish Junior women's basketball team emulated the achievement of their senior squad counterparts by winning the Four Countries Tournament in Cardiff over the weekend.