As tournament day draws closer by the days the Ghana Women's Team have being keeping themselves busy with its first series of exhibition games which started on Thursday against Tudu Galaxy U18 Boys from the Galaxy Basketball Academy located in Tudu Accra. It was a close game but the Golden Hoop Queens managed a win by just a point. Game ended 25 - 24 in favor of the Ghana Women's Team.

The Team woke up on friday morning to play Police Women's Team a service team in the Greater Accra Womens Basketball League. Three of the women in the National Team Goergina Ntow, Sadat Balikisu, and Rahinatu Sulemana are members of the Police team and  were excited and looking forward to playing against their fellow club team mates that morning. On arrival at the University of Ghana which was also the venue for the Galaxy game the Police team had already arrived, waiting for the challenge against their Nation's top players. Game started with Police scoring the first basket. Game was close through out the first quater which ended with Police leading. The Golden Hoop Queens stepped up their game in the second quater and mentained their control till the end of the game with a final score of 64 - 40 against Police.

Saturday afternoon saw the Team play their third game in three days and this time it was against the Magic Ladies who also play in the Greater Accra Womens Basketball League. They also hail from Tudu Accra. The Ghana Women's Team did take advantage with their size, speed and stamina as they dominated the game from start to end. The team shot more in this game than in all their two previous games and finished with a final score of 66 - 18 against Magic Ladies. The top two scorers in the game were Sadat Balikisu with 32pts & 6 rebound, and Goergina Ntow 15pts & 8 rebounds both of whom are members of the Police Team.Both players after three games are currently the top scorers for Ghana and will be looking forward to taking Ghana as far as they can go in Mali.

Last exhibition game for the weekend to place today sunday 18th September in Tema. The team had to travel away to play against Tema Youth Boys Team on their home court in Tema Community 4. Tema Youth is amongst the top 5 youth basketball programmes in Ghana and alot of Ghana's past top players once played for the programme. They also play in the Greater Accra Basketball League Men's Division and have been in the top 5 in the league for the past two to three years. This was the toughest competition the girls had encounted in all of its exhibition games this weekend. The boys were bigger and stronger than the Tudu Galaxy boys the girls played in their first exhibition game They surely didn't have it easy, the boys of Tema Youth did dorminate the game from start to finish with their one on one full court press defense. The game was a true test of character for the Ghana Women's Team, and a sign of what they will be competing against in Mali. The game will go down as the team's Lowest scoring game ever with a final score of 47 to 18 against Ghana's Women National Team .With this loss the coaches will definately be going back to the drawing board to work on the things which went wrong.

Nevertheless off the court the Team has been enjoying some press coverage in TV, Radio and paper print. Thanks to media houses such as GTV, Joy FM, and New Times Corporation. Also big thanks to corporate sponsors who are sponsoring the Teams Camp preparations for Mali , they include Lizzy Sports Complex located in East-Legon, Newmont Ghana also located in East-Legon, and After-Seven Basketball Club, other corporate bodies are taking steps to support the team's trip to Mali.