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UB women's basketball getting help from Down Under

Posted at 11:59 AM, Mar 24, 2018
and last updated 2018-03-24 11:59:48-04

Lisa and Katherine Ups, Stephanie Reid and Courtney Wilkins are four members of the UB women's basketball team who came from Australia.

The Ups sisters are from Wollongong while Reid and Wilkins are from Melbourne. They all came here with help from Assistant head coach Cherie Cordoba who's also a native of Australia.

UB has the most Australian players on their team in all of Division-I women's basketball. With sixteen teams in the women's field as of Saturday, UB's roster makes up 40% of the remaining Tournament players.

 

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