Tupalo's 21 points and 9 rebounds give her Player of the Week award

- October 17, 2025

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Polina Tupalo

18-year old forward Polina Tupalo (175-F-2007) had an amazing evening in the last round for second-ranked Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National Unive and receives a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 1.
She had the game-high 21 points adding nine rebounds and three assists for VSC in her team's victory, helping them to outclass Ridzene (#7, 1-3) with 41-point margin 68-27. Thanks to this victory VSC moved-up to the 2nd position in EGBL U19. The season is still on an early stage, but VSC already had a very good start winning all 4 without losing a single one. In the team's last game Tupalo had a remarkable 55.6% from 2-point range and got three three-pointers out of 7 attempts. She turned to be VSC's top player in her first season with the team. Tupalo has impressive league stats. She is in league's top in points (4th best: 13.3ppg), assists (2nd best: 3.5apg) and averages solid 3.0spg and 51.6% FGP.

Second best performed player last round was Dalila Murzova (169-F-2009). She is a forward in her first season at VSC. In the last game Murzova recorded an impressive double-double of 10 points and 11 rebounds. Of course together with Tupalo she helped BK Frank Ivano-Frankivsk with another comfortable win outscoring Honka (0-4) 80-40. A very good start of the season for her team, which won so far all 4 games without any defeat. Murzova is a newcomer at Frankivsk and despite she is not a team leader yet, every game she becomes more reliable player. Hopefully performances like the last one will happen more often.

Third place about best performers goes to another VSC's star - forward Svitlana Poliantseva (181-F-2007). Poliantseva showcased her all-around game by recording 14 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists in the last round. She was another key player of Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National Unive, helping her team with a 80-40 easy win against Honka (#8, 0-4). VSC started extremely well this year. They recorded 4 victories without losing a single game. Poliantseva turns to be one of the very best players in the league while she is also a leader of the top team having her eyes on the championship title. Poliantseva has a great season in European Girls Basketball League. After only 4 games, she made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 12.5ppg (7th best) and assists with 5.0apg (best passer).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Valeriia Shevchenko (178-F-2007) of VSC - 14 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists
5. Anastasiia Borovska (177-F-2007) of VSC - 17 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists
6. Santa Ozola (2008) of Riga Centrs - 16 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists
7. Jelizaveta Naidjonova (2009) of Daugavpils - 16 points and 4 rebounds
8. Patricija Tikmere (2009) of Riga/Jugla - 13 points and 10 rebounds
9. Zane Straudovska (186-C-2007) of Ridzene - 20 points and 5 rebounds
10. Laura Grunmann (175-G-2008) of TSA - 13 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists

The Player of the week is selected based on efficiency calculation, but also including game result, importance of the game, if played recorded double-double/triple-double, etc.
The efficiency formula is a combination of various formulas used by different basketball organizations/leagues. We got involved many basketball scouts and journalists to assure it's accuracy.
The formula: 1.5*PTS + 3*(REB+AST+ST+BL-TO) - 2*BSAG - 4*PF + 3*PFRV + 4*(2FGPM+3FGPM) + 1.5*FTM - 3*(2FGPA-2FGPM) - 3*(3FGPA-3FGPM) - (FTA-FTM)

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