On Tuesday afternoon in Tenerife, Spain, FIBA made the official drawings for the 2018 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup:
The Mystics have two players who are expected to play in the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup, Elena Delle Donne and Emma Meesseman. Let’s break down how the Americans and Belgians expect to fare in this:
Team USA faces a weak slate of teams in Group D
Just so everyone knows, the teams are selected at random from four pots, or relative tiers of each team. These were the pots:
- Pot 1: United States, Australia, Spain, France
- Pot 2: Belgium, Turkey, Greece, Latvia
- Pot 3: Canada, Argentina, Japan, China
- Pot 4: Puerto Rico, Korea, Nigeria, Senegal
One team from each pot was selected to create each group.