Unrivaled Championship Tonight

This championship showdown is a battle of star power, with Olympic gold medalists Kelsey Plum (Phantom) and Breanna Stewart (Mist) leading their respective teams. Stewart, a co-founder of the Unrivaled league, will be looking to secure a title for her team. The winning team will split a $600,000 prize pool. Phantom BC enters the final on a nine-game winning streak. Their journey has been marked by resilience, overcoming the loss of this season's Defensive Player of the Year, Aliyah Boston, to a season-ending injury. Boston was averaging a league-high 2.1 blocks per game. Mist's semifinal victory was a dramatic comeback, fueled by a 23-point performance from Breanna Stewart. Arike Ogunbowale, who celebrated her 29th birthday, hit the game-winning 3-pointer to cap the rally. This isn't the first time Ogunbowale has hit clutch shots; she famously hit game-winners in both the Final Four and national championship game for Notre Dame in 2018. The key matchup to watch will be in the post, where Mist's Breanna Stewart will face off against Phantom's Kiki Iriafen, who has stepped up in Aliyah Boston's absence. Iriafen scored 17 points in the semifinal. Another critical battle will be between guards, with Phantom's Kelsey Plum, who has scored 20 or more points in five of the last six games, likely being defended by Mist's Veronica Burton. The Unrivaled league, now in its second year, was co-founded by WNBA players Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart to provide a domestic playing option for WNBA players in the offseason. The league features a unique format with three seven-minute quarters and an untimed fourth quarter where the first team to reach a target score wins. The semifinals were played before a sellout crowd of 18,231 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, a testament to the league's growing popularity. The championship game returns to the league's home base at Sephora Arena in Miami.