Coffee`s dagger helps Nyon Basket to win maiden title, Miriam Uro-Nilie is MVP

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. Shannon Coffee (196-C-1997, college: Stanford) 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. Sam Breen (185-F, college: UMass, agency: LBM Management) had 13 points and 13 rebounds. UMass forward registered a game high four steals helping to engineer Nyon`s comeback. Keira Robinson (170-G-1994, college: VCU, agency: LBM Management) posted 12 points and four assists. Virginia Commonwealth University player earned place in All Star Team of the tournament along Samantha Sam Breen and Miriam Uro-Nilie. Nikola Kovacikova (180-G-1999, college: Cal Poly) had amazing game for SBŠ Ostrava. Point guard led her team with 21 points, 10 rebounds and five assists before she was fouled out. Kovacikova had a game high efficiency rating of 31. Shooting guard Adela Smutna (183-G/F-1999, college: Northwest JC) scored 18 points before she got injured. Oliana Squires (175-G-1998, college: Montana St.) had 12 points, while Iva Belosevic (185-F-1997, college: UTRGV) checked out with eight points and 10 rebounds. 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 (168-G-2003) 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 Kovacikova. Nyon Basket stayed in a hunt, also thanks to threes by Sam 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.

Courtesy of: ewbl.eu