EuroBasket 2023

[awhom111]

I thought that I may have started a thread on this last November, but that does not appear to be a case. Today and Sunday are the two middle dates in the qualification process for next year's tournament in Slovenia and Israel.

Anna Makurat had 8 points in 29 minutes, but Poland missed their best chance to get a key win and lost 78-71:

Poland v Slovenia boxscore - FIBA Women's EuroBasket Qualifiers 2023 - 24 November - FIBA.basketball

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Kiah Stokes looks to be out of a spot with Turkey as they awarded citizenship for Teaira McCowan and she played for them for the first time.

Gabby Williams is still injured so she could not play for France. Bria Hartley does not appear to be part of their plans when Gabby is not available.

Everyone loves a Juste Jocyte update on this board and she had 15 points in Lithuania's win over Ukraine.

Here is page with all of the basic stats and links to all the boxscores and games are on FIBA's YouTube channel:

EuroBasket 2023 Qualifiers Game 3 November 24th

Group A: After the first window, Bosnia and Herzegovina was in the lead and riding the high of unprecedented accomplishments, but in some ways were the victims of their own success and their strugg…

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Among other storylines, Matilda Ekh has to feel pretty annoyed about flying to Sweden only for them to still lose with her missing Michigan State's game.

 

[eebmg]

I thought that I may have started a thread on this last November, but that does not appear to be a case. Today and Sunday are the two middle dates in the qualification process for next year's tournament in Slovenia and Israel.

Anna Makurat had 8 points in 29 minutes, but Poland missed their best chance to get a key win and lost 78-71:

Poland v Slovenia boxscore - FIBA Women's EuroBasket Qualifiers 2023 - 24 November - FIBA.basketball

The official website of FIBA, the International Basketball Federation, and the governing body of Basketball. FIBA organises the most famous and prestigious international basketball competitions including the FIBA Basketball World Cup, the FIBA World Championship for Women and the FIBA 3x3 World...

www.fiba.basketball

Kiah Stokes looks to be out of a spot with Turkey as they awarded citizenship for Teaira McCowan and she played for them for the first time.

Gabby Williams is still injured so she could not play for France. Bria Hartley does not appear to be part of their plans when Gabby is not available.

Everyone loves a Juste Jocyte update on this board and she had 15 points in Lithuania's win over Ukraine.

Here is page with all of the basic stats and links to all the boxscores and games are on FIBA's YouTube channel:

EuroBasket 2023 Qualifiers Game 3 November 24th

Group A: After the first window, Bosnia and Herzegovina was in the lead and riding the high of unprecedented accomplishments, but in some ways were the victims of their own success and their strugg…

wbasketballblog.com

Among other storylines, Matilda Ekh has to feel pretty annoyed about flying to Sweden only for them to still lose with her missing Michigan State's game.

Is Gabby William's injury serious?

 

[Geew1992]

I thought that I may have started a thread on this last November, but that does not appear to be a case. Today and Sunday are the two middle dates in the qualification process for next year's tournament in Slovenia and Israel.

Anna Makurat had 8 points in 29 minutes, but Poland missed their best chance to get a key win and lost 78-71:

Poland v Slovenia boxscore - FIBA Women's EuroBasket Qualifiers 2023 - 24 November - FIBA.basketball

The official website of FIBA, the International Basketball Federation, and the governing body of Basketball. FIBA organises the most famous and prestigious international basketball competitions including the FIBA Basketball World Cup, the FIBA World Championship for Women and the FIBA 3x3 World...

www.fiba.basketball

Kiah Stokes looks to be out of a spot with Turkey as they awarded citizenship for Teaira McCowan and she played for them for the first time.

Gabby Williams is still injured so she could not play for France. Bria Hartley does not appear to be part of their plans when Gabby is not available.

Everyone loves a Juste Jocyte update on this board and she had 15 points in Lithuania's win over Ukraine.

Here is page with all of the basic stats and links to all the boxscores and games are on FIBA's YouTube channel:

EuroBasket 2023 Qualifiers Game 3 November 24th

Group A: After the first window, Bosnia and Herzegovina was in the lead and riding the high of unprecedented accomplishments, but in some ways were the victims of their own success and their strugg…

wbasketballblog.com

Among other storylines, Matilda Ekh has to feel pretty annoyed about flying to Sweden only for them to still lose with her missing Michigan State's game.

Bria Hartley tore her acl a few months ago. She’s def not in the plans

 

[awhom111]

Anna had 17 points, 7 rebounds, and 9 assists in 25 minutes in Poland's 136-50 win over Albania:

https://www.fiba.basketball/womenseurobasket/2023/qualifiers/game/2711/Albania-Poland#tab=boxscore

Some people question Albania entering a team when they are so overmatched, but I like that they are showing up and trying their best (looking at you in particular, Norway). Teams like Luxembourg, Austria, Denmark, and Ireland who have not been able to consistently field teams are playing much better these days.

Juste Jocyte had 9 points in another win for Lithuania.

Some people were trying to suggest that Croatia could have a difficult time with their game this window. Nika was obviously unavailable, but their star, one of the most dangerous scoring guards in Europe, Ivana Dojkic was out injured. Shavonte Zellous deciding to return to the fold as their naturalized player certainly helped make their win easier. They only have one game left in February, but it is the hard one at Serbia so they will want to keep it close for the tiebreakers if they cannot win.

Here is a page with all of the basic stats and links to boxscores:

EuroBasket 2023 Qualifiers Game 4 November 27th

Group A: A dream first window became a nightmare second window for Bosnia and Herzegovina as they lost to Emma Meesseman, Julie Vanloo, and Belgium 100-60 in Leuven. Germany did not look convincing…

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To follow up on the Matilda Ekh story, she flew to Portland from Sweden and played. It's not quite the time that Sami Whitcomb played in the deciding game of the Finals in France and checked into the WNBA opener in Seattle less than 24 hours later, but it was definitely not an easy trip.

Is Gabby William's injury serious?

Supposed to be minor, but her club has been kind of vague about it. As a result of injuries to her, Sandrine Gruda, and Julie Allemand, they have only been able to field lineups with five players who are not teenagers.

Bria Hartley tore her acl a few months ago. She’s def not in the plans

Sorry, meant over the course of the whole cycle since I had not posted anything about it. Nobody really seems to suggest that there would be any interest from the new coaching staff even when she was healthy.

 

[awhom111]

Games from today:

EuroBasket Qualifiers Round 5 February 9th

Group A: The last window of qualifying opened with games on Thursday. Belgium clinched their spot in the tournament with a 69-44 win over Germany in Wolfenbuttl. Bosnia and Herzegovina may be out o…

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Gabby and France officially qualify.

Besides not having Nika available, Croatia missed their established star again with another untimely injury and now they have to sit back and wait to see if other group runners up fail enough for them to back into the tournament.

 

[Fairfield Fan]

I thought that I may have started a thread on this last November, but that does not appear to be a case. Today and Sunday are the two middle dates in the qualification process for next year's tournament in Slovenia and Israel.

Anna Makurat had 8 points in 29 minutes, but Poland missed their best chance to get a key win and lost 78-71:

Poland v Slovenia boxscore - FIBA Women's EuroBasket Qualifiers 2023 - 24 November - FIBA.basketball

The official website of FIBA, the International Basketball Federation, and the governing body of Basketball. FIBA organises the most famous and prestigious international basketball competitions including the FIBA Basketball World Cup, the FIBA World Championship for Women and the FIBA 3x3 World...

www.fiba.basketball

Kiah Stokes looks to be out of a spot with Turkey as they awarded citizenship for Teaira McCowan and she played for them for the first time.

Gabby Williams is still injured so she could not play for France. Bria Hartley does not appear to be part of their plans when Gabby is not available.

Everyone loves a Juste Jocyte update on this board and she had 15 points in Lithuania's win over Ukraine.

Here is page with all of the basic stats and links to all the boxscores and games are on FIBA's YouTube channel:

EuroBasket 2023 Qualifiers Game 3 November 24th

Group A: After the first window, Bosnia and Herzegovina was in the lead and riding the high of unprecedented accomplishments, but in some ways were the victims of their own success and their strugg…

wbasketballblog.com

Among other storylines, Matilda Ekh has to feel pretty annoyed about flying to Sweden only for them to still lose with her missing Michigan State's game.

Juste Jocyte? Is she a possible Husky?

 

[awhom111]

The last qualifying games:

EuroBasket Qualifiers Round 6 February 12th

Group A: Qualification finished on Sunday and the first game in this group had no impact on that, but Belgium rolled 102-43 in Skopje against North Macedonia. The game that mattered was in Sarajevo…

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Gabby led France again. Anna returned for Poland and they won, but not by enough to qualify. I am not sure what Great Britain's plans are for expanding the pool of players before the tournament, but Evelyn Adebayo figures to be somewhere in the extended list of players under consideration.

Teams: Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Hungary, Turkey, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Great Britain, Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Israel

 

[ochoopsfan]

The last qualifying games:

EuroBasket Qualifiers Round 6 February 12th

Group A: Qualification finished on Sunday and the first game in this group had no impact on that, but Belgium rolled 102-43 in Skopje against North Macedonia. The game that mattered was in Sarajevo…

wbasketballblog.com

Gabby led France again. Anna returned for Poland and they won, but not by enough to qualify. I am not sure what Great Britain's plans are for expanding the pool of players before the tournament, but Evelyn Adebayo figures to be somewhere in the extended list of players under consideration.

Teams: Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Hungary, Turkey, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Great Britain, Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Israel

I am guessing that Spain was locked into a spot and they didnt need to invite Cazorla, Carerra, Rodriguez and Dominguez to these games. Dominguez is a bit banged up, and could have asked out.

 

[awhom111]

I am guessing that Spain was locked into a spot and they didnt need to invite Cazorla, Carerra, Rodriguez and Dominguez to these games. Dominguez is a bit banged up, and could have asked out.

Yes, they knew that they had qualified before the window so they tried out a bunch of players who would not normally be under consideration.

 

[awhom111]

Rather than starting another thread, I figured I would post again here. All of the continental championships are slated for this year and African qualifying started this week. Jana's father coached Egypt to the Zone 5 championship and a spot in the main tournament:

AfroBasket 2023 Zone 5 Qualifiers February 14th-19th

The qualification process for Africa’s championship started this week in Zone 5. The reigning semifinalists Nigeria, Mali, Cameroon, and Senegal qualified on merit and then Rwanda qualified a…

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They join Nigeria, Mali, Cameroon, Senegal, and Rwanda in the field so far. Piath Gabriel's older sister played for South Sudan in the tournament.

 

[Zarathustra]

Juste Jocyte? Is she a possible Husky?

Truly a long shot (IMO). But, Juste is unique. Come to Storrs, Juste.... it will be magic!

 

[awhom111]

Well, there did not end up being any direct UConn involvement in this tournament. Slovenia reportedly pushed hard to naturalize Azura Stevens for this tournament and there were some Turkey fans who wish that Kiah Stokes had played instead of Teaira McCowan.

Today was an important day as Hungary, Belgium, and Spain clinched spots in the Olympic qualifying tournaments. Winners on Saturday in the Czech Republic-Germany and Serbia-Montenegro games will grab the last two spots from Europe. Dorka will presumably get called in to the national team in November to state her case for a spot.

 

[awhom111]

Germany and Serbia grab the other two spots in the Olympic qualifiers.

 

[awhom111]

Did not want to start a new thread for it, so will just post here. China, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia take the 4 Asia/Oceania places in the Olympic qualifying tournaments.

 

[awhom111]

Starting another thread seems unnecessary so I will just add this here. Nigeria and Senegal took the two spots in Olympic qualifying from Africa.

Senegal had eliminated Egypt, coached by Jana's father, on Tuesday. It is hard to say how much Jana would have played given that she that she does not have a ton of experience with the rest of the group even though the four Egyptian starters on her former club team are in the rotation. Their most effective post player, Raneem Elgedawy, who Jana was backing up in club play after she returned from Western Kentucky having averaged 21 and 12 in her abbreviated final season, battled foul trouble against a very tall Senegal team.