The Olympic Games in Paris will steal most international women’s basketball storylines in 2024. In 2023, however, the story was Fenerbahçe Algöz Holding, as the Turkish club won its first EuroLeague Women championship in April. Here’s a look back at Fenerbahçe’s triumph and other global happenings in the women’s game.
Fenerbahçe announces EuroLeague Women dominance
Fenerbahçe Algöz Holding entered the EuroLeague Women postseason favored to win the club’s first championship. Fenerbahçe, Beretta Famila Schio, CBK Mersin and ZVVZ USK Praha advanced to the Final Four, before Fenerbahçe—blessed with an excess of WNBA talent in Breanna Stewart, Courtney Vandersloot, Emma Meesseman, Satou Sabally and Kayla McBride—defeated Mersin to win it all. Stewart dropped a EuroLeague Women-record 35 points in the final, winning MVP honors with, according to our expert Eric Nemchock, “one of the most statistically impressive individual performance in EuroLeague Women…
