The Europeans at last....

Well we are finally here, all the preparation and everything we have been doing these past 4 weeks leads up to this. There are 11 teams in the Division B tournament, split into two groups.
Great Britain
Portugal
Greece
Belgium
Hungary
Austria

Romania
Slovakia
FYR of Macedonia
Netherlands
Israel

The way it works is you play everyone in your group once and the top four teams out of each group make it to the second round. In the second round you play a quarter final cross over game with someone from the other group. From there semifinals and then a final.

The two finalists get promoted to Division A. We need to win at least 2 games to give ourselves a chance to advance.

This morning there was a technical meeting where you go over everything for the tournament. There you have to present the commissioner with all of the player’s passports, FIBA player license cards, and a list from FIBA of all of the approved players. You also present your home and away kit and shooting shirt to show that it has the FIBA Europe logo sewn onto it and is the color it should be. Once you do all of that you are cleared for competition.

We then had a practice session later that night and prepared for our game against Greece the next day. It will be a tough game after we have already played them twice in the last 4 days, but our girls know that they can be beaten. They just have to do it for a second time.