The USA Basketball women’s national team and the Belgium women’s national team have won Groups C and D of the 2018 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup. Because they won their groups, they advanced to the quarterfinals which start on Friday.
For the Americans, anything less than the gold medal is unacceptable, so many WNBA fans on this side of the Atlantic probably won’t follow the World Cup closely until the end.
But for Mystics fans, we have two players in the World Cup on two different teams. Elena Delle Donne led Washington to the Finals for the first time ever and is on Team USA who has won two consecutive gold medals and four of the last five World Cups.