Hold observe of Unmatched’s postseason award emergences as its second playoff match prepares to get underway in Miami and Brooklyn.
Sure girls of Unmatched had been really unmatched.
In anticipation of its postseason match that will get underway on Saturday night time (8:30 p.m. ET, TNT/TruTV), the home three-on-three league co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart started to unveil the winners of its annual particular person awards.
Whereas sure honorees had been unable to reprise their roles, the league featured a number of memorable particular person performances that shall be long-remembered by the ladies’s basketball neighborhood. The marketing campaign is about to culminate with a touring postseason, that includes the opening and championship rounds in Miami sandwiching a Brooklyn bash for the semifinals.
Amidst the complete velocity antics of the postseason, hold observe of the 2026 Unmatched honor roll beneath.
(Final Up to date: 6:05 p.m. ET, 2/28/26)
MVP: TBA
(Test again later)
First Group: Paige Bueckers, Breeze BC/Chelsea Grey, Rose BC/Kelsey Plum, Phantom BC
Backcourt experts had been really Unmatched in yr two.
The “Level Gawd” Grey reprised her position within the elite trio after main all girls in whole factors (339), assists (8.5), and profitable three-pointers (49). The Rose bud was additionally the certified chief in 3-point proportion (48.0) regardless of taking on seven a recreation and was additionally top-five in steals (18). To prime all of it off, Grey took dwelling the highest prize in a surname civil conflict at Unmatched’s 1 on 1 Event, besting Allisha Grey of Mist within the ultimate. Grey turns into the primary, and solely, repeat entrant on the All-Unmatched staff upon her choice.
Plum’s Unmatched entry was delayed however properly well worth the wait, because the Olympic triumphant made fast use of the open flooring at Sephora Area. She rounded out the highest three in scoring (22.6 per recreation) and assists (70) whereas serving to Phantom rise to the highest of the common season standings. In essentially the most clutch parameter, Plum tied additionally tied for the league lead in game-winners, sinking 5 alongside league co-founder Breanna Stewart.
The listing is rounded out by Bueckers, the most recent UConn alumna to face out within the league co-founded by former Huskies. Bueckers capped off her first skilled yr in fashion, needing little, if any, time to regulate to the three-on-three recreation. She broke out as a frontrunner for the younger reps of Breeze, feeling 22 within the most interesting means doable by averaging 22.1 factors an evening alongside 6.1 rebounds and 5.5 assists, the one participant on the second Unmatched ledgers to achieve such tallies.
Second Group: Aliyah Boston, Phantom BC/Allisha Grey, Mist BC/Brittney Sykes, Laces BC
Again on prime after headlining profitable postseason runs in South Carolina and Indianapolis, Boston would seemingly stand as Unmatched’s most improved participant, greater than tripling the scoring output she had within the unique go-around with Vinyl (5.9 to 18.9). Forming a formidable tandem with Plum, Boston, falling simply in need of averaging a double-double with 9.1 rebounds a recreation, helped elevate Phantom’s inventory on the postseason bracket and swipe one of many computerized tickets to the Brooklyn-based semifinals.
Grey flew from the Lunar Owls to the Mist and helped stage their monumental turnaround, barely beating out Stewart for the staff lead in scoring, which positioned fifth within the league as an entire. She later leaped into the championship spherical of the 1-on-1 match after turning into the one lady to reprise her position within the quarterfinal spherical. Following postseason heartbreak with the Lunar Owls and Atlanta Dream, Grey’s playoff endeavors shall be one of the vital prevalent headlines on the bracket.
Recent off a championship run with Rose (ending together with her sinking the game-winning swish), Sykes took on a bigger position with the Laces and saved them lingering within the Unmatched penthouse. Sykes was a pressured of nature on each side of the ball, averaging 20.3 factors whereas additionally putting second in steals per recreation at 1.6, considered one of two at the least 20 takeaway whole subsequent to Veronica Burton of Mist. She’ll be considered one of a number of dispersed Rose reps going for an additional championship this postseason, an inventory that additionally contains Kahleah Copper, Chelsea Grey, Lexie Hull, and Angel Reese.
Defensive Participant of the Yr: Aliyah Boston, Phantom BC
Although stationed primarily in Florida, the league could not cease regaling Boston, who proved notably haunting amongst the Ghost Gang. Boston (legally, after all) elbowed her strategy to the highest of the Unmatched leaderboards by standing as the one participant averaging a number of blocks a recreation, totaling a document 29 within the full common season. She proved equally adept at ending possessions in a extra typical means, pulling within the second-most defensive boards with 111.
Coach of the Yr: Roneeka Hodges, Phantom BC
After accidents and prior participant commitments doomed Phantom to a spooky begin, Hodges took on the position of ghost host and oversaw a seven-win enchancment that completed atop the common season standings. Benefiting from the Boston-Plum pairing, Hodges’ first skilled teaching tour additionally ended together with her staff main Unmatched in assists (14.6), with such self-discipline additional manifesting within the prime assist-to-turnover ratio (2.07).
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