Jenaya Wade-Fray and the Great Britain Women’s Standard Life Basketball team will be looking for a dream double at the Echo Arena in Liverpool tomorrow as they attempt to wrap up their place in the EuroBasket finals.
Victory for the Women against Germany would send them into the finals next summer.
It would be the first time they have qualified for the tournament, which will be staged in Poland.
It is the penultimate game of the summer for the team, with the squad travelling to Ukraine on Sunday, but they will want to wrap up a trip to the finals on home soil.
Wade-Fray and the women take to the floor at 4.30pm and they will look to complete a double against the Germans.
The teams met in Wolfenbüttel last week, and 20 points from Julie Page saw them gain their first EuroBasket victory of the summer with a 72 - 63 road win.
Jo Leedham also had a big night for Tom Maher's side with six steals to go with her 13 points and five rebounds.
Germany go into the game with a 2 - 2 record having split their pair of games with Ukraine - each winning on their opponents' court - and recording what could prove to be a key 63 - 58 win at home against Slovak Republic.
GB coach Tom Maher isn't underestimating the importance of the game: "In our collective basketball careers to say Thursday is important to us is an understatement. Britain's never qualified for the European Championship finals before and we can do so by beating Germany. Several non believers have stated that GB will never make a European Championship, we intend to prove them wrong."
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