The Unrivaled women\u2019s 3-on-3 regular season is winding down with the postseason picture finally coming into focus. On Monday night, Vinyl BC became the sixth and final team to secure a spot in the playoff bracket, defeating the Lunar Owls 75-68. The victory officially eliminated both the Lunar Owls and Hive from contention. Vinyl BC joins the Phantom, Laces, Mist, Breeze, and Rose in the quest for the title.<\/p>\n
Rae Burrell delivered a standout performance to ensure her team\u2019s postseason future, finishing the night with 30 points. The scoring output marked her first 30-point game for Unrivaled and came just two nights after she set a career-high of 24 points.<\/p>\n
Playoff seeding will be finalized during the final night of the regular season on Friday, Feb. 27. Currently, the Phantom hold a two-game lead over the Laces for the coveted top seed. The Mist remain in close pursuit, trailing the Laces by only a half-game. In the middle of the pack, the Breeze maintain a narrow half-game lead over the Rose for the fourth spot, while Vinyl BC sits two games back in sixth.<\/p>\n
The playoff structure features three rounds of single-elimination games. The team that secures the No. 1 seed earns a first-round bye, advancing directly to the semifinals. Those semifinal matchups will take place on March 2 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The move to a larger venue follows the league’s success in Philadelphia earlier this year, which set an attendance record for professional women’s basketball.<\/p>\n
Following the semifinals in New York, the action returns to Miami for the championship game on March 4 at Sephora Arena. Beyond the prestige of the title, the winning players will compete for a share of a $600,000 prize pool. The first round of the playoffs is scheduled to begin on Saturday, Feb. 28, immediately following the conclusion of the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Unrivaled women\u2019s 3-on-3 regular season is winding down with the postseason picture finally coming into focus. On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-490185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}