The Berruyères won on Saturday on the ASVEL parquet floor. With this third victory in as many matches in the female league final, they recover the national crown ceded in 2018.
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Four years after its last national crown, leaving the honors at ASVEL and BASKET LANDS, the tango concludes in the most beautiful way a dominated end -to -end season, registering only two defeats.
In April, the Berruyères had already offered the Eurocoupe – anteroom of the Euroligue that they will play next season – at the expense of Reyer Venice Mestre. There is only the French Cup that will have escaped them: beaten in the Basket Landes final. 2>
Twenty-five consecutive successes in their room
In the French championship, the tango only trembled twice: in the quarter-finals and in the semi-finals, respectively against Lattes-Montpellier and Basket Landes, the two finalists of the past season, pushed to the match 3 Decisive.
But, thanks to their remarkable regular season, the teammates of Elodie Godin had the joker of the advantage of the field during the final phase, they who have not lost at home since October 16, 2021 and have followed Twenty -five consecutive successes in their room – all competitions combined.
Against ASVEL, new arrival on the tricolor female scene after the club’s acquisition in the summer of 2017 by Tony Parker, they did not even need to activate this “insurance” and complete the final series on a “sweep” (without losing a match).
The third match, this Saturday in Lyon land, will have been the most hung. The two teams were tied at the break (28-28), after a rough half-time. The impact of Isabelle Yacoubou in the racket, leaving the bench, allowed the Berruyères to stay in contact with the Rhodanian in the second quarter, lost 12 to 6.
It was not until the end of the third quarter for the meeting rocking, when a award-winning Keisha Hampton after two ball losses from the ASVEL players allowed Tango to resume the advantage (43 -41).
iliana Rupert, best player of the season
If she did not weigh during the meeting (six points), Iliana Rupert was, at only 20 years old, the key player of the season. Designated MVP (“Most Valuable Player”, best player) of the female league and the final 4 of the Eurocoupe, she scored 25 points in the final against Venice.
Twice vice-champion of Europe (2019 and 2021) and Olympic bronze medalist in Tokyo with the French team, she will announce in the coming days if she continues the adventure with tango or if she launches herself abroad.
On the Asvel side, Marine Johannès, also one of the basic players of the French team, crossed the match like a shadow, scoring only three points on five tempted shots. For his club, whose recruitment announced in the specialized media could be prestigious, the qualification for the Euroligue promises to be uncertain.
Only possibility: France could recover one of the places granted to Russia if the exclusion of the country’s clubs, decided after the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, is maintained for next season. The Lyonnaises by Pierre Vincent should then go through a raised qualification lap.