Breanna Stewart and the Mist erased a 13-0 start to the semifinals to take down Paige Bueckers and the Breeze 73-69 on Monday night, punching their ticket to the 2026 Unrivaled Championship Game.<\/p>\n
The championship is set, with the No. 2 Mist facing the No. 1 seeded Phantom in a showdown between the league’s top two seeds.<\/p>\n
The Breeze stormed out to a 13-0 run in the first quarter, holding the Mist scoreless until the 3:36 mark of the opening frame. All three Mist starters were held without a field goal in the quarter, with Allisha Gray and Stewart combining to go 0-for-10 from the floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bueckers tallied four points and five rebounds in the first, while Rickea Jackson erupted for 13 points to fuel the early surge.<\/p>\n
The Mist responded before halftime, trimming the deficit to 44-38 after a fadeaway jumper from Stewart cut the Breeze lead to six.<\/p>\n
Dominique Malonga delivered a standout third quarter, showcasing her offensive presence, but Alanna Smith and the Mist refused to go away. The Breeze carried a 62-55 lead into the final frame with the target score set at 73.<\/p>\n
The Mist ripped off a 13-0 run to tie the game at 67 before Smith buried a three-pointer to give them a 70-67 lead. The Breeze briefly stopped the bleeding with a clutch bucket from Brink, but Arike Ogunbowale answered with a dagger three to hit the target score and seal the win.<\/p>\n
No. 6 seed Vinyl def. No. 3 seed Laces, 82-69<\/p>\n
No. 5 seed Breeze def. No. 4 seed Rose, 69-50<\/p>\n
No. 1 seed Phantom def. No. 6 seed Vinyl, 83-75<\/p>\n
No. 2 seed Mist def. No. 5 seed Breeze, 73-69<\/p>\n
Finals (Wednesday, March 4)<\/p>\n
No. 1 seed Phantom vs. No. 2 seed Mist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breanna Stewart and the Mist erased a 13-0 start to the semifinals to take down Paige Bueckers and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-503030","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\/503030","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=503030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}