Another preseason update:
Nolan Smith and Galatasaray played the championship of the exhibition mini-tournament in Italy. They faced the team renowned for potent offense and no defense and lost 110-88. Nolan had 22 points and 7 steals in 34 minutes as the team still is missing a number of players returning from national team duty. Ian Vougioukas added 10 points. In the win, ex-UConn player Jerome Dyson had 28 points, ex-Penn State player Jeff Brooks had 19 points, ex-DII player David Logan had 15 points, and ex-DII player Olaseni Lawal had 12 points.
Angela Salvadores and Rivas have started their preseason training. They played a pair of exhibitions against Dynamo Kursk from Russia although both teams are not quite playing with their final rosters. They lost the first game 71-52 and the second one 67-37. Angela had 6 points in the first game and 2 points in the second game, although the point totals that they posted do not agree with their reports of the final score, so that could be totally wrong.