ODU: The Becca Allison update

A roller-coaster tournament for Old Dominion's Becca Allison and Great Britain cruised upward Wednesday - barely - when the team qualified for the final eight in the U20 European A Division Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Allison, who sat out two of her team's first four games and went 0-for-12 from the field in the other two, scored 8 points to help GB stun powerful France 62-50 on Tuesday. But the following day, Great Britain dropped a 70-66 decision to previously winless Netherlands. Allison scored 6 points in the defeat.

The loss left Great Britain needing Italy to defeat Latvia to advance from the qualifying round to the quarterfinals. Italy prevailed 70-61, boosting GB into the final eight of the A Division for the first time. The Brits will take on Russia in Friday's quarterfinals.

Allison is averaging 4.5 points, 2 assists and 1.8 rebounds in the tournament.

ODU's Allison ailing at U20 championships

An undisclosed injury - at least no one's disclosed it to us - appears to be hampering Old Dominion's Becca Allison at the U20 European Championships this week in Novi Sad, Serbia.

The Edinburgh Evening News mentioned Allison's injury during its brief report on Great Britain's "desperately disappointing" 39-38 loss to Slovakia in Thursday's tournament opener. Allison logged just 14 minutes in the contest and missed all five of her shots from the field. Allison has sat out her team's two games since - Friday's  71-64 victory over Latvia and Saturday's 81-31 loss to powerful Spain.