A year has now passed since that important day in Greek basketball history when the country's women defeated Japan 93-91 to secure their quarter-final place at the Olympics in Athens.
As celebrations go, this one was one of the best at the Games because a team which had never been in the spotlight before had made good on its promise to qualify for the knockout stage of the tournament.
Greece's women did it in style, too, playing end-to-end basketball with the electric Evanthia Maltsi providing points and rebounds and the supporting cast living and dying on every play.
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She is hopeful, but also realistic.
"As a team, we don't have a big target like the Olympics and it has been difficult because after the Olympics everything else seems smaller," Saregkou said to PA Sport.
"I think in this European Championships, we will try and go out and give our best.
"Our target is to reach the top eight but I don't know if we can do it."
Maltsi, and the exciting point guard Anastasia Kostaki stole most of the headlines 12 months ago but Saregkou, a stalwart of the national team with over 140 games and more than 1,500 points, was vital, too.
As captain, one of her tasks is to help integrate a new crop of young stars into the national team.
Kostaki, who had the terrific game against the United States in the quarter-finals of the Athens Games, is not available and her absence will not help.
"We need a lot of work and a lot more time before we can pick it up again," Saregkou said.
"For me, I don't think we have enough time to prepare. We've only really had one and a half months together and with many new players it is very difficult, especially when other teams have been playing together for some years."
The youngsters do have a lot of potential, though.
"The young girls I rate with talent are Sofia Argirokopoulo, Nafsika Stavrithou, Afrodite Cosma," Saregkou said. "I think that these have a lot of promise."
In Group B, Greece have been drawn alongside 2003 runners-up and top seeds Czech Republic and France, who won the event in 2001.
Also drawn in the group are Germany, who are back in the tournament after a five-year absence, and Latvia.
Greece, 10th four years ago at EuroBasket 2001 and ninth in the 2003 event, have had mixed results in their build-up to this year's Championship.
"We can improve on how we have been playing, I'm sure," Saregkou said. "We haven't yet found ourselves as a team, as players and a unit. If we had more time, maybe we would have more of a chance.
"Everybody expects a lot of this team because the sport is popular, me also, but I feel we still need to put in a lot of hard work.
"I hope for the best for us but I can't say whether we will make it to the final eight or not. It's unpredictable.
"For me, I think to get through the first stage would be a good achievement for us. To challenge for the title is kind of asking for the impossible."
