Live stream: Watch Day 1 action at 2025 Basketball Australia Under-18 and Junior Wheelchair National Championships

South Australia has made an impressive start as the country’s most promising basketball talent showed out as the U18 Nationals began in Queensland. Relive 14 matches here.

SA Metro has soared to the top of the standings after two massive wins on day one of the Basketball Australia Under-18 and Junior Wheelchair National Championships in Queensland.

They hit triple figures in both games in a serious display of offence, dispatching WA Country 109-76 before trouncing Northern Territory 131-41.

KommunityTV exclusively live streamed 14 games from three courts as the tournament tipped off on Sunday at Moreton Bay’s South Pine Sports Complex.

WATCH THE REPLAYS:COURT 1 | COURT 3 | COURT 4

Victoria Country and Queensland North also played twice, meeting in the final game on court 3, and it was Vic Country who claimed an important win to kickstart their campaign.

Both teams finished the day at 1-1: Vic Country fell to NSW Metro by four points, while Qld North beat ACT by 33 earlier in the day.

Hugh Strachan in action for SA Metro at the 2025 Basketball Australia Under-18 National Championships. Picture: Taylor Earnshaw

The loss of four Centre of Excellence athletes proved too big a mountain to overcome for Queensland South, as WA Metro romped to a big first-up win at the national championships.

WA Metro’s 85-63 closed out the first day, and while one of the “home” sides battled, they couldn’t match WA’s firepower.

Qld South lost Olivia Olechnowicz, along fellow CoE and FIBA U15 Oceania Cup Sapphires gold medallists Jemyma Manyok, Jade Sherrington and Isabel Smith, for the tournament.

It opened the door of opportunity for WA Metro, and Reece Anticevic kicked it down with a team-high 22 points and eight rebounds.

In other standout performances:

MEN

Jai Fa’ale led Victoria Metro to a 12-point win over Tasmania on the back of his 24 points, seven rebound and five steals.

Jack Smith (29pts 7reb) and Mason Ling (20pts) combined for 49 of their side’s 66 points.

Billy Mcrae put up one of the standout individual stat lines early on, doing the bulk of the work for WA Country in their big loss to SA Metro.

Mcrare 30 points – almost half of his team’s total – with 15 rebounds and six steals in the 109-76 loss.

Billy McRae in action for WA Country at the 2025 Basketball Australia Under-18 National Championships. Picture: Taylor Earnshaw

WOMEN

A 35-point double-act from Aspen Crase (18pts) and Keira Gardiner (17pts 11reb) guided South Australia Metro to a, 85-61 win against Tasmania.

Nikki Parker (24pts) and Andie Smith (16pts 12 reb) led Tassmania’s fightback but to no avail.

NSW Metro’s Angela Tako owned one of the best shooting performances of the day, hitting 7-9 – including four-from-five from three – in her 21-point outing in a big win over ACT.

KommunityTV exclusively live streamed 14 games from three courts as the tournament tipped off on Sunday at Moreton Bay’s South Pine Sports Complex.

Every match of the Basketball Australia Under-18 and Junior Wheelchair National Championships will be exclusively live streamed on KommunityTV from April 6-13.

It is the second of five national junior pathways events on the Basketball Australia calendar, following the under-20 nationals earlier this year.

Andie Smith in action for Tasmania at the 2025 Basketball Australia Under-18 National Championships. Picture: Taylor Earnshaw

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REPLAYS

COURT 1

Queensland South v Western Australia Metro (U18 Women)

South Australia Country v Queensland South (U18 Men)

Western Australia Country v Victoria Metro (U18 Women)

South Australia Country v Victoria Country (U18 Women)

Victoria Country v NSW Metro (U18 Men)

COURT 3

Queensland North v Victoria Country (U18 Men)

Queensland North v New South Wales Country (U18 Women)

Australian Capital Territory v New South Wales Metro (U18 Women)

Victoria Metro v Tasmania (U18 Men)

Western Australia Country v South Australia Metro (U18 Men)

COURT 4

Northern Territory v South Australia Metro (U18 Men)

New South Wales Country v Western Australia Metro (U18 Men)

South Australia Metro v Tasmania (U18 Women)

Australian Capital Territory v Queensland North (U18 Men)

Originally published as Live stream: Watch Day 1 action at 2025 Basketball Australia Under-18 and Junior Wheelchair National Championships