Defending champion the Tauranga Whai host the Northern Kāhu at Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre in Tauranga, Friday 25 September to open the Tauihi season, but most of the attention is on the Tokomanawa Queens.

New Zealand basketballer Charlisse Leger-Walker has had a hard introduction to the WNBA, with her Connecticut Sun team being thrashed in their opening game of the season by New York Liberty.

New Zealand basketball star Charlisse Leger-Walker has created history, becoming the first Kiwi woman selected in the WNBA Draft.

Taranaki teen Oscar Goodman has been part of the Michigan Wolverines winning the NCAA men's basketball title after a 37-year drought.

Charlisse Leger-Walker has become the first New Zealand woman to win an NCAA basketball title in the United States.