November 13, 2017
A new season in China started on Monday. With the addition of two teams, the format of the past couple years has been abandoned with full double round-robin used again for the regular season. While in theory this should have made teams care more about early season games, a number of teams are still preparing for later in the season at this point. Beijing is one of those teams that is already looking toward the postseason as they started with a solid 90-65 win over league newcomers Zhejiang. Shaanxi also made their debut, getting a good game from Morgan Tuck, but falling to military team Bayi 90-58. Xinjiang hosted Jiangsu in a what turned out to be a game without foreign players as Chen Xiaojia and the visitors used a strong third quarter to win 90-78 as Wang Lili tried to carry the home side. The other military club did not have success as Yang Hengyu and Lynetta Kizer helped Shandong take care of business 90-62 without needing to worry about any rules differences for these games. Shanghai was left disappointed with the way their last season ended and started with an 87-64 win over Yelena Leuchanka and Sichuan. Elizabeth Williams had a big debut for Liaoning, but they lost to a Guangdong team not field a foreigner 80-70. Shanxi is not trying anything unorthodox this year, securing a strong foreign player to start the season in Jonquel Jones, which paid off immediately with a 92-51 win over Heilongjiang.
Zhejiang vs. Beijing 65-90 ZJ Howard 19/11r Dong 17 BJ Shi 16 Shao 15 Gao 14 McGee-Stafford 10/10r Yang 10
Bayi vs. Shaanxi 90-58 81 Sun 15/13r Zhang 15 Bai 10 SN Tuck 25 Ma 13/8r
Xinjiang vs. Jiangsu 78-90 XJ Wang 28/6r Huang 16 JS Chen 20/6r Jiang 18 Xu 17/10r Li 15 Zhang 11
Shandong vs. Shenyang 90-62 SD Yang 28/8r Kizer 24/6r Wang 10/9r SY Li 19/7r Jin 19
Sichuan vs. Shanghai 64-87 SC Leuchanka 21/12r Gong 11 SH Peng 19 Stewart 18/10r Huang 15 Xun 11/9r
Guangdong vs. Liaoning 80-70 GD Zhang 15 Liu 15 Yang 14 Li 12/11r LN Williams 27/7r Wang 15
Shanxi vs. Heilongjiang 92-51 SX Jones 31/13r Wu 15/8r Wang 13 Wen 10 HL Henry 16/8r Zhang 13