A game between red-hot Italian club Beretta Famila Schio (5-1) and defending EuroLeague Women champion Sopron Basket (4-2) highlights Week 7 of EuroLeague Women group play, which will span three days beginning this Tuesday, Dec. 20. The competition will then have the following week off before returning to action in January 2023.
Schio features several names that should be familiar to WNBA fans — including Marina Mabrey, Amanda Zahui B., Astou Ndour-Fall and reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year Rhyne Howard — making the club an attractive choice to follow during EuroLeague Women play. Schio has won four-straight games and currently sits atop the Group B standings, with Mabrey and Howard forming one of the competition’s better duos on the perimeter.
Sopron, meanwhile, has leaned on its trademark defense to continue being competitive. No team is allowing fewer points per game (60.8) in group play than the Hungarian club, and with Ezi Magbegor at center, Sopron has one of the best defensive players in the world to execute its vision on that end of the court.
Elsewhere in the competition, Spar Girona (3-3) takes on Spanish rival Perfumerias Avenida (5-1) in a matchup that’s affectionately known as “El Classico,” while Turkish club Fenerbahçe Alagöz Holding (4-2)…
