The Augustana basketball teams are heading to Brazil this week and will be blogging on the trip. Chaney Tambling is blogging for the women’s team and you can catch their blog posts on the D3hoops.com Daily Dose. Brandon Motzel is blogging for the men’s team.

Well we’ve finished up our first day here in Rio with a 62-44 Augustana win!

We played a Brazilian team from the Club Municipal in Rio and played in a stadium full of both students and other Brazilian fans. We got a chance to talk to several groups of students and understand a little bit more of their culture.

They were very excited to learn about our school and country and we even met a player who is going to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor next year to play! The game was fun because we played on a floor that was a different size than we are used to and we enjoyed being able to play the game we love in a different country.

For tonight we are done and will be getting some rest to gear up for a great day tomorrow where we will get to go see the Christ the Redeemer statue and eat dinner in a restaurant located in our hotel. The trip has barely begun and we are already having a blast!

(We are in the pictures along with the members of the other team and many of the students that we got to talk to before and after the game.)