Can any team in EuroLeague Women stop Fenerbahçe Alagöz Holding?
Fenerbahçe, the Turkish basketball club that entered the 2022-23 EuroLeague Women season as the favorite to win it all, has largely lived up to expectations, leading the competition with a 9-2 record. Featuring an absolutely stacked roster with Breanna Stewart, Satou Sabally, Emma Meesseman, Kayla McBride, Alina Iagupova and Kiah Stokes, Fenerbahçe has gotten better and better as group play has gone on, winning its last four games by an average of 42 points.
If that wasn’t enough, Fenerbahçe recently announced it had signed WNBA record-breaking point guard Courtney Vandersloot, who is anticipated to join the club on Feb. 15.
That’s still a couple of weeks away, of course, and the one team in Group A that can still theoretically match up against Fenerbahçe, Czech club ZVVZ USK Praha, will get a shot against its EuroLeague Women rival. Led by MVP candidate Alyssa Thomas (18 points, 11.2 rebounds, 6.5 assists and 2.8 steals per game) and her Connecticut Sun teammate Brionna Jones (16.4 points and 9.7 rebounds per game), Praha currently sits at 8-3, one game behind Fenerbahçe in the Group A standings.
The game, which was tabbed by FIBA as the EuroLeague Women game of the week, also carries a revenge…
