If you are an American, you want the USA Basketball women’s national team to beat Belgium. They did today, 87-74 in Lille.
If you expected that this win would allow the Cats to beat the spread AND put the Cats in danger of denying former Washington Mystics forward Emma Meesseman from winning a medal for her life, well, that is another matter entirely.
First let’s talk about the game. Team USA led by no more than 15 points at any point in the game. The Cats were just NOT going to let the Americans blow then out on relatively friendly territory, considering that Meesseman played in Lille before, AND let’s not forget that Lille is next to Belgium.