Turn on any European league basketball game, and you’ll see a brand of basketball that is substantially different than what you see in the United States.
Players are generally far more fundamentally skilled, less selfish and more versatile than what you’ll see of American-born players.
Which is exactly why Colorado State women’s basketball head coach Ryun Williams and his staff began targeting overseas players four years ago. He needed a group that could turn a mediocre program around quickly, without having to load his team full of junior college and Division I transfers. So Williams sent assistant coach Tim Moser, who had recruited former CSU standout Gritt Ryder to Alaska-Anchorage, off to Western Europe in search of a handful of ready-to-play prospects.