Twelve teams started contesting the club championship of Africa in Dakar, Senegal. The teams were divided into three groups and each team will play three games to determine the field for the knockout round. Instead of adding these teams to the roster tracker, players who meet the criteria for inclusion are listed below:
Al Ahly (Egypt): Reem Moussa, Rice; Dyaisha Fair, Syracuse; Breanna Richardson, Mississippi State; Meral Abdelgawad, Western Kentucky; Nadine Soliman, UNC Greensboro; Raneem Elgedawy, Western Kentucky
FAP (Cameroon): Adebola Adeyeye, Kentucky; Ionna McKenzie, Texas Tech; Breanna Campbell, Marshall
Queens (Nigeria): No players meet criteria
Ville de Dakar (Senegal): Andreona Keys, Purdue; Fatou Diagne, Houston; Fatou Pouye, Duquesne
APR (Rwanda): Kierstan Bell, FGCU; Italee Lucas, North Carolina; Shaina Pellington, Arizona
CNSS (Democratic Republic of Congo): No players meet criteria
Friend’s (Ivory Coast): No players meet criteria
Sporting (Egypt): Lianna Tillman, Sacramento State; Kristen Spolyar, Butler; Hala Elshaarawy, Saint Peter’s
Ferroviario (Mozambique): Silva Veloso, Cumberlands [NAIA]; Destiny Pitts, Texas A&M; Carla Covane, Cumberlands [NAIA]; Stefania Chiziane, Highland [JC]
Jeanne d’Arc (Senegal): No players meet criteria
Makomeno (Democratic Republic of Congo): No players meet criteria
REG (Rwanda): Destiney Philoxy, Massachusetts; Khayla Pointer, LSU; Ines Nezerwa, Iowa State; Aminata Ly, Fordham; Victoria Reynolds, William and Mary
Group A
The hosts played the first game of the tournament on Friday, welcoming an FAP squad that had strengthened since qualifiers with three foreigners, including rookie Breanna Campbell. The visitors had the better first half, but the home team ended up edging the game 57-54. This group closed the first set of games on Saturday too and Nadine Soliman and Al Ahly rolled past Queens 99-49 as they hoped to cement their status as favorites.
https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/womens-basketball-champions-league-africa-2024/games/125604-ASCVD-FAP
Ville de Dakar [57]: Dabou 13/9r Sissoko 13 Pouye 8/6r Keys 2 Diagne 0
FAP [54]: McKenzie 12/14r Ebogo 11 Adeyeye 9/8r Campbell 8/7r
https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/womens-basketball-champions-league-africa-2024/games/125605-MFM-AHL
Queens [49]: Gbihi 18/7r Hembam 17
Al Ahly [99]: Soliman 22 Elgedawy 15 Richardson 11 Sene 10/6r Fair 9/6r/6a Abdelgawad 8 Moussa 4
Group B
This group’s first game was on Friday with the defending champions Sporting Alexandria getting the 65-49 win over Friend’s. The other game was on Saturday with APR coming up with a 73-68 win over CNSS.
https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/womens-basketball-champions-league-africa-2024/games/125610-FBA-SPO
Friend’s [49]: Berthe 14
Sporting [65]: Elshaarawy 19/11r Spolyar 12 Tillman 7
https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/womens-basketball-champions-league-africa-2024/games/125611-CNS-APR
CNSS [68]: Nguz 16 Drame 12 Lubata Londa 10
APR [73]: Pellington 16 Lucas 14/9r/6a Diakite 13 Uwizeye 10/10r Bell 9/8r
Group C
This group started play on Saturday with the other team from Senegal, Jeanne d’Arc stifling Makomeno 57-34. Ferroviario usually has stiff competition from Mozambique and Angola in their qualifying region, but they got the spot without contest this year and they started off with a 78-74 win over REG.
https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/womens-basketball-champions-league-africa-2024/games/125617-MAK-JA
Makomeno [34]: Traore 12/11r Ilunga 10/11r
Jeanne d’Arc [57]: Diop 18 N. Fall 14
https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/womens-basketball-champions-league-africa-2024/games/125616-CFM-REG#boxscore
Ferroviario [78]: Chiziane 12/6a Veloso 11/6a A. Cossa 11 Mucauro 10 Pitts 10 Covane 9/11r
REG [74]: Nezerwa 18/9r Philoxy 17 Ly 13/17r Reynolds 9/7r Pointer 7
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