WNBL Off-Season Signings 2018
Comings and goings in preparation for the 2018/19 WNBL season. Last updated 21 August 2018.
Australia’s Women’s National Basketball League.
Comings and goings in preparation for the 2018/19 WNBL season. Last updated 21 August 2018.
In the battle of the superstar centres, it was ultimately Suzy Batkovic’s Townsville Fire that won out. Townsville won game 3 of the grand final series 70-57 on Sunday, securing their third championship in the last four WNBL seasons.
With all the winners now named, here’s a summary of the WNBL’s honour roll for 2017/18.
Don’t have Foxtel? Can’t get near your TV? Data plan on your mobile not up to the task? Never fear, follow the action from Fire v Boomers here, updated as quickly as I can type, starting from about 7:20 pm AEDT.
Grand Final game 1 was just like the regular-season meetings between the Boomers and Fire: it was scrappy, it was close, and Townsville won. But don’t count out the Boomers just yet.
The semi-finals leave us with Townsville and Melbourne battling it out for the WNBL championship; Townsville are looking for their third title in four seasons, whilst Melbourne is looking to hoist the trophy for the first time since the 2010/2011 season, back when they were still Bulleen.
A quick update after this week’s Ozhoops Radio went live- Fox Sports had originally scheduled the WNBL Grand Final game on Saturday night for a 9:30pm (AEDT) replay on channel 503 after the NBL matches. They have now advertised that the game will be live from 7:30pm (AEDT) on channel 506. The replay is still… Read More Fox Sports does some shuffling, game 1 now live
This week! It’s WNBL Grand Final week and I preview game 1 of the championship series. Plus the NBL now has a definite top-four and a definite everyone-else; I review week 13’s games and gloat about my tipping.
Again this series was won by the lower seed, leading a few people to question whether the away-home-home format- the lower seed plays first- is optimal given the huge advantage the lower seed gets from winning game 1. (The argument in favour is that no matter what, if the higher seed wins the series, they… Read More Post-series thoughts: Sydney Uni v Townsville
“The most significant event in the Perth/Melbourne series might have happened the week before.”