Unrivaled playoffs 2026: Phantom and Mist to play for championship, both winning semifinals on 3-pointers
Unrivaled’s prime two groups will play for the 3-on-3 girls’s basketball league’s 2026 championship on Wednesday.
Arike Ogunbowale hit a 3-pointer to give Mist BC a 73-69 win over Breeze BC of their semifinal matchup. Mist trailed 67-57 with 1:08 performed within the fourth quarter after Paige Bueckers hit a 3 for Breeze. But powered by seven factors from Breanna Stewart, Mist went on a 10-0 run to tie the rating at 67 with 72 the goal rating after Breeze completed the third quarter with a 62-55 lead.
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Stewart completed with 23 factors to lead all scorers, including 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 4 blocks. Ogunbowale adopted with 21 factors, taking pictures 5 of 9 from 3-point vary. And Allisha Gray tallied 12 factors, although she shot 4 of 12 from the ground.
Rickea Jackson scored 9 factors in Breeze’s 13-0 run to open the sport, placing Mist again on her heels from the opening tip. Even after Breanna Stewart scored Mist’s first basket, Cameron Brink instantly responded with a 3-pointer for Breeze.
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Mist was down 26-10 after the opening quarter with Ogunbowale scoring 4 of these factors. But they lower the deficit to six by halftime, trailing 44-38.
Ogunbowale hit a 3 with 45 seconds left within the third quarter to trim Breeze’s lead to 60-55. But that was the closest they may get as Breeze pushed Mist again each time they posed a menace. Only when Breeze was 5 factors away from the win did Mist lastly put collectively the lengthy scoring run that eluded them all through your complete recreation to that time.
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Dominique Malonga led Breeze with 18 factors and 14 rebounds. Jackson and Bueckers every completed with 17 factors, with the previous UConn star and WNBA No. 1 general choose additionally getting 10 rebounds and 5 assists.
Playing their first season in Unrivaled, Breeze was the fifth-best group in the course of the common season with a 6-8 report. They upset No. 4 seed Rose BC, 69-50, in Saturday’s first-round playoff recreation to advance.
Mist went 10-4 main up to the postseason, inserting them only one recreation behind No. 1 seed Phantom. But as a top-2 seed, they earned a bye into the semifinals. Neither Mist nor Phantom made the Unrivaled playoffs final season.
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Mist and Phantom will play for the 2026 Unrivaled championship and to $600,000 prize pool on Wednesday at Sephora Arena in Miami. Tip-off is scheduled for 9 pm ET.
Kelsey Plum sends Phantom to last on sixth game-winner of season
Kelsey Plum is taking part in her first season in Unrivaled and has hit six game-ending photographs for Phantom, main them to the league’s greatest report. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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Phantom BC completed as Unrivaled’s prime group in the course of the 3-on-3 girls’s basketball league’s common season. Yet regardless of ending with an 11-3 report, they have been challenged by No. 6 seed Vinyl BC and had to rally for an 83-75 win of their playoff semifinal matchup.
Kelsey Plum hit the game-winner for Phantom, pulling down a step-back 3-pointer to surpass the goal rating of 82 and elevate Phantom to Wednesday’s championship last in Miami. It was the second consecutive recreation she received after ending Friday night’s regular-season finale with a brief jumper and the sixth game-ending shot she has hit this season.
Plum completed with a game-high 31 factors, as well as to 6 rebounds and 5 assists. Tiffany Hayes adopted with 19 factors, whereas Kiki Iriafen scored 17 factors and grabbed 11 boards. Phantom performed with out second-leading scorer Aliyah Boston, who suffered an injury in Friday’s matchup with Rose. She might be unavailable for Wednesday’s last as properly.
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Vinyl was aiming to upset the next seed for the second time within the Unrivaled playoffs. The membership coached by Teresa Weatherspoon defeated No. 3 Laces 82-69 in Saturday’s first-round matchup in Miami. Midway by the third quarter on Monday, Vinyl took a 56-48 lead on a 3-pointer by Rae Burrell and technical foul free throw by Rhyne Howard.
Dearica Hamby led Vinyl with 30 factors (taking pictures 11 of 14 from the ground) and eight rebounds. However, she took a tough elbow to the face on a foul by Iriafen, which can have affected her within the closing minutes. Howard added 16 factors, whereas Erica Wheeler scored 13. Burrell had 10 rebounds to go together with her 12 factors.
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As one in every of Unrivaled’s prime two seeds, Phantom earned a bye to Monday’s semi-finals. Vinyl completed the common season because the sixth-best group with a 5-9 report — only one recreation higher than the 4-10 Lunar Owls and Hive — and was the final seed within the playoffs because of this.
Unrivaled playoffs draw sellout crowds in Brooklyn
Monday’s semifinal video games have been performed earlier than a crowd of 18,261 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Home to the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets and WNBA’s New York Liberty, the venue’s website lists capability at 17,553 for basketball video games. Before Phantom and Vinyl tipped off, Unrivaled president Alex Bazzell stated the 2 semifinal video games drew $1 million in income, in accordance to Front Office Sports’ Annie Costabile.
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On Jan. 30, two Unrivaled video games — Breeze taking part in Phantom and Rose matched up versus Lunar Owls — at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia drew a record crowd of 21,490 for an expert girls’s basketball regular-season recreation.
