While most of the Arizona women’s basketball team got their first practices underway this week, incoming freshman Kailyn Gilbert is in Buenos Aires, Argentina getting the opportunity of a lifetime. Gilbert and the USA Basketball women’s U18 team will begin play in the FIBA U18 Women’s Americas Championship on Mon., June 13.
Team USA gets underway at Obras Sanitarias Stadium at 11:30 a.m. MST on June 13. They will start group play against Colombia in Group B. The U.S. follows that with a game against Puerto Rico on Tues., June 14 before finishing up group play against El Salvador on Wed.