{"id":899409,"date":"2026-09-20T23:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899409\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T23:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:04:11","slug":"silverware-its-all-about-the-vibe-in-bec-coles-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899409\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Silverware’: It’s all about the vibe in Bec Cole’s World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geelong took the WNBL27 pre-season title by half a point. Maddison Rocci was named MVP.<\/p>\n

WNBL27\u2019s Townsville Tip-Off was a Cole World as the Geelong Venom won<\/a> its first \u201cpiece of silverware\u201d in the club\u2019s short history.<\/p>\n

The Venom won the pre-season title on the back of Saturday\u2019s 90-67 victory against the UC Capitals and Sunday\u2019s 90-67 blowout against Bendigo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels amazing to do it with such a new group,\u201d Cole said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe had our youngsters really step up; we had our experienced players really lead. <\/p>\n

\u201cJust such a great vibe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the first piece of silverware for the Geelong Venom, and I think if we can do this now, it just shows the potential that our team has. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve still got two of our players to come in. Yeah, watch out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cole was referring to Chinese and New York Liberty centre Han Xu and national teammate, shooting guard Wanglai Zhang.<\/p>\n

Venom guard Maddy Rocci won the Tiana Mangakahia MVP Award after averaging 24.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, 6.5 assists and 3.5 steals in Geelong’s two wins. <\/p>\n

Cole, who hosts basketball.com.au\u2019s It\u2019s a Cole World podcast, said she looked forward to getting back to the regional Victorian town to share the trophy with Geelong\u2019s fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be epic, especially for the fans who have been with the Venom from the start,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be their third season in the league, so to go back to our Geelong community with this bad boy and be able to share this with them \u2013 I think that will also excite them to see what they\u2019ll get to watch from us on the court this season.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Geelong Venom shooting guard Bec Cole at the free throw line during the WNBL27 Townsville Tip-Off. Photo: WNBL.com.au<\/p>\n

The Venom open their WNBL27 season on the road against expansion club Tasmania Jewels in Hobart on Thursday, October 15, 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot wait,\u201d Cole said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne, because you\u2019ve put in the hard work throughout pre-season, but to go down to Tassie \u2013 I couldn\u2019t be more pumped.<\/p>\n

\u201cA new team, and if you see what they do with the Tasmania JackJumpers in the NBL, the WNBL is just going to be elevated again with the Tassie Jewels. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey have a great team and a great coach. What an atmosphere it\u2019s going to be for Game 1. I couldn\u2019t be more excited for that occasion.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the second year Townville hosted the league\u2019s pre-season tournament and predictibly Cole gave it a thumbs up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI might be biased, but I think it\u2019s pretty damn cool that you get to see all the WNBL teams in one spot,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get to see these role models off the court, but they\u2019re also elite athletes, and you get to see their display of basketball on the court. What a showing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, a big shout-out to TechnologyOne and the City of Townsville for hosting us. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty cool experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every WNBL club and its basketball.com.au profile. Sort by club or state by tapping a heading; tap again to reverse, and a third time to return to alphabetical order. Club logos are trademarks of their respective clubs and the WNBL, used here for editorial identification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong took the WNBL27 pre-season title by half a point. Maddison Rocci was named MVP. WNBL27\u2019s Townsville Tip-Off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-899409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}