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Message: [QUOTE="Zarathustra, post: 5296704, member: 11285"] FYI: a review of the FIBA 'seedings" for the First Tournament "PRO SERIES" (June 18 - 19th). I have only included the teams that are schedule to also play in the SECOND TOURNAMENT "FIBA 3X3 Women's World Cup" (June 23 -29th). The second list will be the FIBA "seedings" of the World Cup team. I find this interesting because how the USA does in the First Tournament will give an indication of their probability of success in the "World Cup" June 18 - 19th seedings: 1. Canada 3. Australia 4. Germany 6. USA 8. Japan 9. Mongolia 10. Austria 12. Ukraine. Take away: 8 out of the 12 teams will be repeaters for the second tournament and "in theory" our competition is Canada, Australia and Germany. June 23 - 29th seedings: Note the TOP 4 seeded teams for the tournament are divided between the 4 Pools. The second four seeded teams are then divided again into same four pools (Pool A - D) etc. Thus: the USA (seeded #6) is in POOL B matched up against the #1 seeded Netherlands, # 10 seeded Czechia, #15 seeded Japan, and #17th seeded Chile. The other #1 seeds are China, France, and Spain. The other number TWO seeds are Germany, Canada, and Poland. If you are handicapping the tournaments based on the results of the Marseille "Pro Series", here are the results from Marseille: The winner was SPAIN, second place was Czechia, fourth place was Poland, SIXTH PLACE was the USA (Sarah, C. Burdick, M. Williams, and Sahara Williams), 10th place was Australia, and 11th was Netherlands. I apologize if anyone finds this boring.... I find it fascinating to understand at the outset that the USA team is not the "favorite" in either one of these tournaments (although I realize that the FIBA seeding system is somewhat tortuous!). I am interested in the possible BONEYARD interest to these Middle of the Night games. Of course, there will be YouTube video replays at more sane hour for sleepy UCONN fans. GO SARAH!! Beat Australia, Beat Amgalan U24! [/QUOTE]

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