Will Bourges Baskets 13th season in EuroLeague end in glory?
Bourges Basket’s EuroLeague women’s history is impressive. This is their 13th participation in this competition. They have won the trophy on three occasions and have participated in seven final fours. They last won the trophy in 2001 and finished fourth in the 2007 edition. This season Bourges have dominated the LFB with 24 victories in 25 games. They have also qualified for the Coupe de France. They have also had an amazing EuroLeague campaign that saw them recover from a poor start with only one win from five games. They went on to win their final five group games to finish 6-4. Then they went on to sweep the teams from Sopron and Fenerbahce in the knock-out stages to qualify for the final. The players that make up Bourges Basket Sonja Petrovic, 19 year-old Serbian international, is currently FIBA Europe’s junior women player of the year. She played for Barcelona in Spain last season. She had already won all the possible honours in Serbia with Red Star Belgrade. Petrovic also picked
