I watched Megan’s team play on YouTube this afternoon. Her team VBW Arka Gdynia currently plays, as I understand it, in both the EuroLeague and a Polish league. All or most of the EuroLeague games are live on YouTube.
Observations:
1. The game was played in Landes in southwestern France. It was played in the equivalent of what I would consider a large high school gym. Someone in the YouTube discussion said it sat 3,000, and it was packed (most were wearing masks). Very enthusiastic fans.
2. A pep band played during the entire game (while the ball was in play). The only tune that I recognized was “Those Were the Days.” A band playing during the game is not generally a European thing, as the Polish fans on YouTube were incensed by this. Apparently it definitely is a southwestern France thing. I kind of liked it as there no announcers on the broadcast.
3. I missed the first quarter. Of what I saw, Megan had just an OK game.
4. Pretty sure, remember no announcers, Megan picked up a technical foul, if you can imagine that, early in the 4th quarter. Megan got an offensive rebound and appeared to get hacked across the arm by Sophie Cunningham (who played her last collegiate game in CHA in an NCAA loss to the Hawkeyes) as she was trying to put it back in. No foul was called, but next thing I knew Cunningham(who must have had around 25 points) was at the other end shooting a FT with no one on the lane. Megan came out of the game and never returned. She was calmly discussing something with an official when she left, but I didn’t see her do anything else. They apparently called another T on her team about 30 seconds later.