Melbourne, Australia • It was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of experience.
Team USA hadn’t lost a competitive senior game since 2006, in the semis of the FIBA World Championship. Australia hadn’t ever defeated the US in a senior game, having lost 25 times in a row.
But in front of 52,000 chanting and cheering fans in a packed Aussie-rules football stadium, the Boomers pulled off a stunning 98-94 upset of Team USA, making exactly clear how much more work this weakened version of the American squad has left before the World Cup begins next week.