Semifinals
The Play-Ins started on Wednesday and the first game was in this section for the teams that finished in the top two places in their groups. All of these teams have already qualified for the final stage, but winners of these best of three series will start in the semifinals and the losers will start in the quarterfinals. Girona pushed Fenerbahce in the first half, but Iliana Rupert and the hosts did pull away in the second half for the 87-69 win. The other series started in Istanbul on Thursday and it looked like Galatasaray would take care of business at home, but Murjanatu Musa and Leila Lacan helped Landes force overtime with a brilliant fourth quarter before Dorka Juhasz and the hosts recovered for the 81-72 win.
https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/euroleague-women-25-26/games/128383-FENER-GIR#boxscore
Fenerbahce [87]: Rupert 20 McBride 18 Meesseman 16/7r/6a Milic 14 Williams 10 Allemand 5/8r/11a Uzun 4 Cakir 0
Girona [69]: Jocyte 13/6r Carter 12 Bibby 12 Coulibaly 10/8r Quevedo 3 Pendande 2
https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/euroleague-women-25-26/games/128380-GALA-BLA#boxscore
Galatasaray [81]: Juhasz 21/10r Kuier 16/11r Oblak 15 Williams 12/10r Smalls 5/6r Johannes 3 Erdogan 0
Landes [72]: Musa 21/11r Lacan 21/9r Droguet 10 Pardon 10 Wojta 3
Quarterfinals
These series are also best of three but the losers are eliminated with the winners joining the final stage at the quarterfinal round. Both games were played on Wednesday, starting with Zaragoza leaving the defending champions USK Prague on ropes after an 82-71 road win. The other series featured Italian league rivals with Reyer hoping that homecourt advantage would help in a matchup that had been tough for them so far this season. Schio was able to win 68-66 though and put both fourth place teams in position to close out the third place teams at home next week.
https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/euroleague-women-25-26/games/128386-USK-ZARAG#boxscore
USK Prague [71]: Cazorla 13 Carleton 12 Salaun 10 Ayayi 10 Hof 6 Feagin 6
Zaragoza [82]: Hempe 14 Fingall 13 Leite 13 Pueyo 8/7r Vorackova 4/7a Flores 2 Hermosa 0
https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/euroleague-women-25-26/games/128389-REYER-SCH#boxscore
Reyer Venezia [66]: Holmes 14/7r Charles 13/9r Mavunga 9 Dojkic 7 Cubaj 6 Santucci 5 Villa 4 Pan 2
Schio [68]: Shepard 16/7r Laksa 13 Conde 13 Sottana 10
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