Women's basketball team

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I recently read an article where it was indicated that Okot was primarily playing against these university teams as well before signing with Miss. State. Good competition, many players from the FIBA national teams, ect go to these various universities. Coach Schaefer took Miss. State women's basketball team to the World Universities Games back in 2019..a team with Jessika Carter, Rickea Jackson, Yemiyah Morris, Jazzmun Holmes, Sidney Cooks, Xaria Wiggins, JaMya Mingo Young, Aliyah Matharu, Andra Espinoza -Hunter, and others..and they pretty much were in tough battles game in and game out. They were in really tough down to the wire battles with the asian teams especially. They beat Japan in a tough battle to advance to the finals against Australia. Then blown out by a loaded team from Australia in the championship game to win the silver. The pool of players that participate on these World University Games teams come from these various university teams internationally including the US and Canada. A good bit of the teams that Favour plays against are very similar to the Japanese team that Miss. State barely got by in 2019 except not stacked or as stacked with select players.

Coach Schaefer spoke throughout the tournament on how tough these university teams were, especially Australia (stacked handpicked roster) and how unprepared his team was, including short amount of time to prepare..