A single game of basketball, with timeouts, is more or less two hours long, but there’s always so much more time, effort and energy involved to make the event truly special. In this three-part profile, we take a deep dive into Bridget Carleton’s 41-point game on Jan. 17, 2024, between Serco UNI Győr and KGHM BC Polkowice, to show what needed to happen for the Canadian athlete to make European basketball history.
There was nothing special about Jan. 17, 2024 in the city of Győr. Located in northwestern Hungary, it’s inhabited by a bit over 100,000 people and home to 2023 Hungarian women’s basketball vice-champions, Serco UNI. Győr is one of those university cities, vibrant with young people, whose fresh ideas spring up against the backdrop of historical architecture.
The baroque old town was as beautiful as ever, the Rába River reflected the lightly lit Carmelite church before joining the Danube and becoming part of the second-longest river in Europe, inferior in length only to the Volga. While the Volga is known for its singular devotion and exclusivity to Russia, the Danube connects nine countries, which makes it a true embodiment of European solidarity. It represents a common understanding, acknowledgement and acceptance of different cultures and…
