{"id":6581,"date":"2025-07-19T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6581\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:12:08","slug":"unrivaled-nil-14-womens-college-basketball-players-sign-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6581\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrivaled NIL: 14 women’s college basketball players sign deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cInvesting in elite women\u2019s basketball talent is central to Unrivaled\u2019s mission,\u201d Luke Cooper, Unrivaled\u2019s president of basketball operations, said in a press release. \u201cThis transformational, first-of-its-kind initiative brings together the best of the best and reflects our deep commitment to elevating the women\u2019s game and holistically supporting athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Here are the 14 players signed:<\/p>\n

Throughout their careers, the 14 players have dominated the college game. Combined, they have won four national championships. They have also made a total of 32 NCAA Tournaments, 25 Sweet 16s, 14 Elite Eights and 10 Final Fours. The list includes two 2025 national champions, Fudd and Strong; a 2024 Olympian in Swords; and 2025 FIBA AmeriCup gold medalists Booker, Crooks, Hidalgo, Johnson and Miles.<\/p>\n

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The players will participate in \u201cThe Future is Unrivaled Summit,\u201d a multi-day event at the Unrivaled headquarters in Miami. The event will include skill development sessions, content and merchandise shoots, and group bonding activities.<\/p>\n

Previously, the league signed Johnson and current Dallas Wings rookie Paige Bueckers<\/a> to NIL deals as part of its \u201cThe Future is Unrivaled\u201d campaign. Watkins also became an investor in the league before the inaugural season.<\/p>\n

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Rose BC won the first season of Unrivaled, topping Vinyl BC in the championship game<\/a>. Current Dallas Wings assistant coach Nola Henry led Rose BC, and the roster was composed of Kahleah Copper<\/a>,\u00a0Chelsea Gray<\/a>,\u00a0Lexie Hull<\/a>,\u00a0Angel Reese<\/a>,\u00a0Azura Stevens<\/a>, Brittney Sykes<\/a>,\u00a0and relief players\u00a0Natisha Hiedeman<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Naz Hillmon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition, Collier won the league\u2019s first one-on-one tournament<\/a>, beating Aaliyah Edwards<\/a> in the final. Stevens and Arike Ogunbowale<\/a> made the semifinals of the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cInvesting in elite women\u2019s basketball talent is central to Unrivaled\u2019s mission,\u201d Luke Cooper, Unrivaled\u2019s president of basketball operations,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,8431,63,2134,726,8432,8433,8434,8435,8436,8437,8438,8439,8440,8441,8442,8443,8444,4017,8445,8446,8447,85,8448,8449,8450,3370,8451,2277,8452,8453],"class_list":["post-6581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-audi-crooks","tag-australia","tag-azzi-fudd","tag-basketball","tag-flaujae-johnson","tag-hannah-hidalgo","tag-iowa-state","tag-juju-watkins","tag-kiki-rice","tag-lauren-betts","tag-lsu","tag-madison-booker","tag-michigan","tag-milaysia-fulwiley","tag-nil","tag-notre-dame","tag-olivia-miles","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sarah-strong","tag-sienna-betts","tag-south-carolina","tag-sports","tag-syla-swords","tag-taniya-latson","tag-tcu","tag-texas","tag-ucla","tag-uconn","tag-unrivaled","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}