There were three more teams that met competition criteria than the number of available places so two game series had to be played with first games on Wednesday and the return games next Wednesday. In Sfantu Gheorghe, Sepsi was looking to get over a familiar obstacle while Latvia’s Riga has tremendous history at the top level of Europe. The visitors held the lead, but the Romanians controlled the fourth quarter to win 59-54 behind Borislava Hristova and have a little breathing room for the next game. Besiktas does not have the squad that they would take the court with if they advanced, but started well in Turkey behind Jovana Nogic. Polkowice settled in and took the lead, holding on to a 58-57 margin for when they get to host in Poland. London Lions continues to harbor ambitions for both their team and the whole sport in Great Britain, but they faded late and DVTK will bring home the biggest lead of any team as they lead 63-48 before the game in Hungary.
https://www.fiba.basketball/euroleaguewomen/23-24/game/2009/ACS-Sepsi-SIC-TTT-Riga#|tab=boxscore
Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe [59]: Hristova 20 Green 13 Mununga 7/15r Nystrom 7 Akathiotou 0
Riga [54]: Cohen 15/12r Lambert 12
https://www.fiba.basketball/euroleaguewomen/23-24/game/2009/Besiktas-JK-BC-Polkowice#|tab=boxscore
Besiktas [57]: Nogic 21 Krivacevic 12/9r Lazic 5/8a
Polkowice [58]: Stankovic 15/10r Baric 14/6a Gertchen 12 Fraser 6/9r Collier 2 Kulinska 0
https://www.fiba.basketball/euroleaguewomen/23-24/game/2009/London-Lions-DVTK-HUN-Therm#|tab=boxscore
London Lions [48]: Gustafson 13/7r Landrum 12 Samuelson 7 Wilkinson 6 Fagbenle 3/7r Winterburn 3 Norton 0
DVTK [63]: Garbin 16 Jovanovic 11/6r Charles 10/13r Aho 10/6a
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