Arike Ogunbowale hits winning 3-pointer in Unrivaled semis

Milwaukee native Arike Ogunbowale, a WNBA veteran who once hit game-winning buzzer-beaters in both NCAA Final Four games to lift Notre Dame to a championship, had another game-winning three-pointer to remember.

Playing in the semifinal of Unrivaled, a three-on-three basketball league in its second season as an offseason competition featuring WNBA players, Ogunbowale led the Mist to a 73-69 win over the Breeze, battling back from a double-digit fourth-quarter deficit.

She did it on her 28th birthday, no less.

The game used an "Elam Ending," with the first team to reach 73 points declared the winner. After missing a shot with her team ahead, 70-69, teammate Breanna Stewart corralled the rebound and sent it back to Ogunbowale in the corner, who buried it for the walk-off winner.

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The game was played before a sold-out crowd at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and it featured Ogunbowale (who had 21 points) against Dallas Wings WNBA teammate Paige Bueckers.

Games in Unrivaled are played over three seven-minute periods, followed by the Elam Ending in the fourth, which adds 11 points to the leading team's score and establishes that the first team to reach that mark is the winner. The court is slightly compressed in size.

The Mist meet the top-seeded Phantom on March 4 in Miami, with a $600,000 prize pool going to the winner. The league features eight teams, all of which played 14 league games, with six teams making the playoffs. The six-player Mist finished one game back of the Phantom in the regular-season standings at 10-4.

The championship game will air on TNT and TruTV on March 4, starting at 8:30 p.m. CT.

Former Marquette University and Green Bay Southwest High School standout Natisha Hiedeman is part of the Hive, a team that didn't make the postseason.

Ogunbowale, following her eye-popping career at Divine Savior Holy Angels High School and Notre Dame, has made four all-star teams in her seven years with Dallas and received MVP votes six times. The Wings struggled for a second consecutive season in 2025, finishing 10-34.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Arike Ogunbowale hits another game-winner; Unrivaled team in final