Canada's Laeticia Amihere, left, attempts to get past Puerto Rico's Mya Hollingshed during their quarterfinal game at the women's Basketball World Cup in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Canada's women's basketball team is set to host Japan in an exhibition game, Canada Basketball announced Tuesday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Mark Baker
VICTORIA – Canada’s women’s basketball team is set to host Japan in a June exhibition game, Canada Basketball announced Tuesday.
The contest will take place June 2 at Victoria’s Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.
Canada is ranked No. 5 in the world. Japan, meanwhile, is ninth, but is the reigning Olympic silver medallist.
The Canadian team will have a training camp from May 22-29 in Edmonton. The game will be a month out from the FIBA Women’s AmeriCup 2023, which will run July 1-9 in León, Guanajuato in Mexico.
Of the 10 teams at the AmeriCup, eight will advance to the FIBA Women’s Pre-Olympic Qualifying Tournament for the Americas, Nov. 5-13, while the top two teams will move directly to the FIBA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournaments 2024 in February.
Canada is coming off a fourth-place finish at the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022, the team’s best finish at the World Cup since a third-place finish in 1986.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 18, 2023.
