Nyon Basket secured a 82-80 comeback victory against SBŠ Ostrava to lift the 2025 European Women`s basketball league title on Wednesday, March 12, at the Hala Ostravska Univerzita in Ostrava, eastern Czechia.
Players of the game
Shannon Coffee hit a three point shot with 76 seconds left in regulation to put Nyon Basket ahead for the first time during the last three quarters, 79-78.
Stanford center missed exactly two months of play but returned just in time for the EWBL final.
Coffee split the free throws with 20.0 seconds to go and made a game winning basket from the charity stripe, 81-78.
She finished the game with 18 points, 10 rebounds and a efficiency rating of 24.
Her former coach Tara VanDerveer won three NCAA titles with Stanford.
Miriam Uro-Nilie led all scorers with 26 points on 10/21 shooting from the field.
Ukraine international went 4/9 from the three point line.
She was recognized as the 2025 European Women`s Basketball league Most Valuable Player.
Samantha Breen had 13 points and 13 rebounds.
UMass forward registered a game high four steals helping to engineer Nyon`s comeback.
Keira Robinson posted 12 points and four assists.
Virginia Commonwealth University player earned place in All Star Team of the tournament along Samantha Breen and Miriam Uro-Nilie.
Nikola Kovačikova had amazing game for SBŠ Ostrava.
Point guard led her team with 21 points, 10 rebounds and five assists before she was fouled out.
Kovačikova had a game high efficiency rating of 31.
Shooting guard Adela Smutna scored 18 points before she got injured.
Oliana Squires had 12 points, while Iva Beloševič checked out with eight points and 10 rebounds.
Key stats
SBŠ Ostrava led by 12 points midway the third quarter, 45-57.
The Czech team had only four turnovers by then.
Nyon Basket increased defensive pressure and got some easy points after Ostrava turnovers.
Iveta Raškova and her team maintained eight points lead after 30 minutes of play, 51-59.
Back-to-back three pointers by Miriam Uro-Nilie and another three by Keira Robinson cut the gap to two points, 60-62, with 08:31 left.
Naomi Takyi tied the game at 62 just 30 seconds later.
SBŠ Ostrava regained a 75-70 lead after three pointers by Oliana Squires, Adela Smutna and Nikola Kovačikova.
Nyon Basket stayed in a hunt, also thanks to threes by Samantha Breen and Keira Robinson.
Swiss club hit six three pointers in the last ten minutes, capped by a Coffee`s dagger.
The hosts missed a couple of threes and a last two pointer during the last minute.
EWBL final, March 12, Hala Ostravska Univerzita
SBŠ Ostrava – Nyon Basket 80-82 (21-19, 22-15, 16-17, 21-31)
Ostrava: Nikola Kovačikova 21 (10reb, 5ast, eff 31), Adela Smutna 18, Oliana Squires 12, Iva Beloševič 8 (11reb), Lucie Valkova 7, Peyton Whitted 5, Katerina Kanova 4, Michaela Vackova 3 (5reb), Tereza Halatkova 2, Veronika Szabo ; Kristyna Mensikova, Veronika Vasileva. Head coach Iveta Raškova, assistant coach Kamil Fajta.
Nyon: Miriam Uro-Nilie 26, Shannon Coffee 18 (10reb), Samantha Breen 13 (13reb, four steals), Keira Robinson 12, Naomi Takyi 6, Laure Margot 5, Indira Vilolo Dos Santos 2, Yverline Da Silva, Amelie De Preux ; Morgane Moura, Sara Schellino, Allison Moura. Head coach Loan Morand, assistant coach Juan Domingues.
Referees Tomasz Holubek, Vojtěch Ščurek, Vaclav Sykora.
All Star Team
Nikola Kovačikova, Adela Smutna, Samantha Breen, Keira Robinson, Miriam Uro-Nilie
LABRAINS MVP
Miriam Uro-Nilie
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EWBL access
Watch the game on YouTube stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpd4EqJ3frM
FINALISTS
SBŠ Ostrava: seventh year in the league, starting from 2018. Best results: qualified to the 2022 Final Four and finished in the fourth place; sixth place in 2023; posted a 2-2 record in 2024. Iveta Rašková is the head coach from 2020.
Nyon Basket: first year in the league. Women`s basketball club was founded in 1950. Nyon system has nine teams, including six youth teams. Title case: five Swiss championships (1973, 1979, 1984, 2018, 2019), two Swiss cups (1979, 1984), Swiss Supercup (2024); vice-champions 2022-2024. Loan Morand is the head coach from 2024.
EWBL history
Rīga 2016: TTT Rīga, Basket 90 Gdynia, Astana Tigers, Tsmoki Minsk
Košice 2017: Good Angels Košice, TTT Rīga, Dynamo Moscow, Basket 90 Gdynia
Rīga 2018: Good Angels Košice, TTT Rīga, Dynamo Moscow, Udominate Basket
Rostov on Don 2019: TTT Rīga, Tsmoki Minsk, Rostov Don SFEDU, Žabiny Brno
Brno 2020: season five cancelled (Žabiny Brno-Tsmoki, Novosibirsk-Pieštany)
Maladziechna 2021: Horizont Minsk, Nika Syktyvkar, TTT Rīga, Prometey Kamianske
Pieštany 2022: Žabiny Brno, Pieštanske Čajky, Kibirkštis Vilnius, SBŠ Ostrava
Warsaw 2023: Levharti Chomutov, Neptūnas Klaipeda, Polonia Warszawa, Frankivsk Prykarpattya
Warsaw 2024: Polonia Warszawa, Frankivsk Prykarpattya
Ostrava 2025: Nyon Basket, SBŠ Ostrava
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