Marine Fauthoux scored a career-high 23 points to lead the French women’s basketball team to a 104-57 victory over Great Britain at the Vendéspace on Wednesday, November 11. The win opens the qualification campaign for Euro 2027.
The 25-year-old point guard from Pau returned to the national team for the first time in 526 days, having suffered a left knee anterior cruciate ligament rupture on June 3, 2025, on that exact same Vendéspace parquet during Euro preparations.
The 2024 Olympic silver medalist was subsequently left off the 2026 World Cup squad despite a convincing summer in New York, but returned sharp from her American campaign to also record 5 rebounds and 8 assists against the 24th-ranked nation globally.
The outcome carried little doubt, though the fresh world runners-up—featuring only four mundialistes in Valériane Ayayi, Marième Badiane, Aminata Gueye, and Migna Touré—waited until the start of the second half to decisively pull away.
Fauthoux launched the decisive 15-0 run to start the half with a three-pointer, helping the Blues build a 30-point lead at 67-36 against a British side that failed to sustain the pace. Great Britain’s Savannah Wilkinson and Sydney Wallace finished with 31 combined points after managing 29 in the first half before being tightly guarded after the break.
Gueye, crowned WNBA champion with Golden State on October 31, continued her strong form with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Meanwhile, Coline Franchelin and Garance Rabot earned their first selections for France.
The French team continues its path toward the Euro, where the top two teams in each group will qualify, playing Saturday in Luxembourg and on Tuesday against Ukraine in Riga, Latvia.
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