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FIBA: Sopron Basket still on top of EuroLeague Women entering Week 10

FIBA: Sopron Basket still on top of EuroLeague Women entering Week 10

It’s been just over nine months since Sopron Basket won the 2022 EuroLeague Women championship with an improbable title run. Gabby Williams, who won Final Four MVP honors, embodied Sopron’s defense-first approach, alongside similarly hard-nosed players such as Briann January and Bernadett Határ.

Sopron looks much different this season. None of Williams, January or Határ remain with the club, and prized offseason signing Brittney Sykes transferred to Spanish club and EuroLeague Women rival Spar Girona four games into the competition’s group play phase.

None of that has stopped Sopron from remaining one of the teams to beat in EuroLeague Women, though. A patchwork core of Ezi Magbegor, Yvonne Turner and Jelena Brooks has actually yielded even better results through nine weeks of group play than Sopron’s previous iteration; the club currently sits alone atop the Group B standings with a 7-2 record, winners of four-straight games. The team’s most recent victory came last week against CBK Mersin Yenişehir Bld, and the result was typical Sopron: A slow-paced, grind-it-out game that held a star-studded Mersin lineup (featuring Chelsea Gray and DeWanna Bonner) in check and to a season-low 44 points.

This week, Sopron will have an opportunity to extend its lead in Group B against fellow Hungarian club DVTK HUN-Therm, on which the average player age is just 23 years old. Don’t take Arella Guirantes and DVTK lightly, though; they’ve won three straight games and have been on the right side of more than one upset this season.

The game between Sopron and DVTK, along with all other EuroLeague Women games, will be streamed live and for free on FIBA’s EuroLeague Women YouTube channel. Here’s a quick rundown of the other games happening in Week 10 of group play.


Tuesday, January 17

Virtus Segafredo Bologna (2-7) vs. BC Polkowice (7-2)

When: 2:30 p.m. ET

Where: PalaDozza, Bologna

How to watch: FIBA YouTube live stream

Notable players: Cheyenne Parker, Iliana Rupert, Cecilia Zandalasini, Kitija Laksa (Virtus Segafredo Bologna); Stephanie Mavunga, Erica Wheeler, Artemis Spanou, Weronika Gajda (BC Polkowice)

Matchup details: Bologna dropped yet another close game last week, a 79-74 loss to Bourges, and is officially in danger of dropping out of the playoff race completely, sitting at No. 7 in Group A. Bologna will need Parker to come up big against Mavunga and Polkowice, who are averaging 43.6 rebounds per game, highest in EuroLeague Women….

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