A potential 2016 gold medal game rematch against Italy awaits the Sapphires in the quarter-final of the 2018 FIBA Under-17 Women’s World Cup, but the defending champions will first have to navigate a potentially tricky group featuring the ever-improving Canada and a Latvian team that ran the Italians within six points in the bronze medal playoff at last year’s European Under 16 Championships.
Sapphires out to defend title at FIBA U17…
A potential 2016 gold medal game rematch against Italy awaits the Sapphires in the quarter-final of the 2018 FIBA Under-17 Women’s World Cup, but the defending champions will first have to navigate a potentially tricky group featuring the ever-improving Canada and a Latvian team that ran the Italians within six points in the bronze medal playoff at last year’s European Under 16 Championships.