I was blown away by the size of this event. Looked on website there are 13000 competitors from 170 countries and the opening ceremony was attended by 80000 people. Yet you hardly read or hear anything about it.

any chance they might telvise some games?

Real shame this event isnt televised / given more media attention.

The standard of play is impressive!

Eurosport are televising the WUG, I imagine they will show basketball as it gets to the pointy end of the tournament ala the Olympics.

Good stuff. Steindl has IMO always been suited to International competition - whether that translates to the Boomers team down the track is yet to be seen.

Boomers need some very good shooters and Steindl does at least tick that box.

This event is terrific exposure for all these young guys. It's as close as going to the Olympics gets.

Players enrolled for uni? Lol

You think the US would have a gun team with a list of future NBAer's

Aussies beat Sweden 70-53.
Dumovic had 12 points on 6/8 shooting in 16min.
Broekhoff had 11 points & 6 rebounds in 27min.
Plenty of minutes shared around.

USA broke all kinds of WUG records in destroying United Arab Emirates 140-46! Russia also played with Oman as they won 117-24!

Women won their first game against Hungary earlier today, 79-53. Tess Madgen has 12 points and Tolo 11. Look at www.basketball.net.au there are reports for all games.

Aussie women take on China next, whilst the men play Canada

do they both play tonight? is there any stream sites to these?

Frayed knot mate, cant find any, probably not until the knockouts. If you go to WUG website there is a link to broadcasts.

Women play tonight and both play tomorrow night.

So we are playing this games seriously where other countries treat it like it is the Uni games.

Piss drinking trip for uni students, nothing more than that. If the team is playing without a hangover, they should forfeit.

LOL. I doubt its like that FM!

Aussie women thrashed China 94-45.
Madgen dominated with 20 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals in 23 minutes.
Thompson had 20 points on 10/12 shooting with 3 rebounds and 2 steals in just 13 minutes!

Aussie men talke on Canada next, whilst the girls take on the might of Finland!

WHo is Aus playing tonight?

Canada

Australia's men lost to Canada 83-92.
Bairstow had 19 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists.
Cadee had 16 points, 4 assists and 4 steals.
Young scored 14 points to go with 7 rebounds.
Steindl had 14 points and 2 rebounds.

Australia trailed early but fought back. Foul trouble may have costs the Aussies in this one.

Aussie women defeated Finland 95-46.
Kunek starred with 26 points and 6 rebounds.
Madgen had 18 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.
Thompson had 12 points and 6 rebounds
Cumming had 12 points and 3 rebounds.

Hmm thats no good... What was the strength of the canadian team?

Pretty good team with quite a few NCAA players.. names that sticks out the most to me are Kevin Pangos from Gonzaga, Kyle Wiltjer from Kentucky and Brady Heslip from Baylor.

Aussies take on the US today I think

Canada has a very decent team in the WUG as sircreate mentioned.

Australia's men take on the USA tonight. No game for the Aussie women tonight.

40-43 at the half. USA u;

Aussie men defeated USA 93-84!
Bairstow was again front and centre with 22 points, 9 rebounds & 5 assists
Broekhoff with 10 points, 12 rebounds & 2 assists
Cadee with 23 points, 2 rebounds & 2 assists

Cadee had a massive 4th to help get the win for the Aussies. Aussies next play United Arab Emirates who were thumped by 100 odd by the USA earlier in the tournament. USA play Canada next who beat the Aussies.

Australian men thumped UAE 131-43, and with Canada defeating USA, Aussies progress to quarter finals and take on Lithuania.

Aussie girls beat Canada 72-58 in their quarter final. Now head to semi final and raje on USA.

Thumping win by the girls, led by over 20 at 3/4 time. Alice Kunek in a bit of form at the mo, had 21 & 7 and shot at very high clip.

Now for the Yanks!

Aussie girls lost a heartbreaker to the USA 78-79 in the semi final.
Kunek had 20 points and 9 rebounds.
Tolo had 16 points and 7 rebounds.
Madgen had 12 points and 6 rebounds.

We now play off for bronze against Chinese Taipei who lost to Russia in the other semi.

Link to watch Australia vs Lithuania semi final tonight:

http://www.streamhunter.eu/basketball-live-streaming-video.html

What time tonight is it on>?

Australian men defeated Lithuania 69-55 to progress to semi final against Serbia.