Meghan L. Hall

Hey, friends.

Finally coming up for air after working 7 straight days, including 5 at the ACC Tournament.

Duke women's basketball vs. Louisville live: ACC title game highlights On Sunday, the No. 2 Louisville Cardinals on the No. 1 Duke Blue Devils in the 2026 ACC Tournament championship game.

For live updates of today’s ACC Tournament championship, follow along here ⬇️

📍 Day 5

🏀 ACC Tournament championship

Louisville and Duke will play for an ACC title at 1:00 p.m. ET.

The WNBPA submitted a proposal to the WNBA Friday evening, a source with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY.

The league also submitted a counterproposal to the union last night, the source confirms.

Women's college basketball conference championship predictions: Power 4 The four No. 1 seeds are all in the championships and looking to go back-to-back in the conference championships.

USA TODAY took a shot at predicting the winners of Power 4 conference championships today.

From Chloe Peterson, Cydney Henderson, Mitchell Northam and me:

Louisville ousts North Carolina in the ACC women's semifinals If North Carolina beats No. 2 seed Louisville on Saturday, its chances of hosting in the NCAA Tournament go way up.

Louisville moves on to play Duke in the ACC Tournament tomorrow.

Will have coverage for you.

If you missed today’s game (Louisville/North Carolina), here’s the updates ⬇️

Running a liveblog today.

Notre Dame vs. Duke up first.

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Breanna Stewart says leaked CBA Letter sparked ‘tougher’ talks within players’ union When asked when the WNBPA executive committee expects to respond to the league's latest proposal, Breanna Stewart said she has "no idea."

Breanna Stewart says leaked CBA Letter sparked ‘tougher’ talks within players’ union

Story:

WNBA star Arike Ogunbowale arrested in Miami, charged with battery WNBA star Arike Ogunbowale was arrested in Miami, Florida early Thursday morning after police say she punched a man at a nightclub.

WNBA star Arike Ogunbowale arrested in Miami, charged with battery

Story:

Dallas Wings guard Arike Ogunbowale was reportedly arrested on Thursday.

USA TODAY is working to find out more. Story to come.

Meghan Marchness!

Or is it March Meghaness?

📍 Day 3.

Hello from Duluth/the ACC Women’s Tournament.

Oh, I’ll be traveling for nearly all of March.

More to come.

Hello from Day 2 of the ACC Women’s Tournament.

First up: No. 9 Clemson vs. No. 8 Virginia

Kehlani headlines Women's Final Four Super Saturday concert | Exclusive Grammy winning singer Kehlani will headline a free Super Saturday Concert at the 2026 Women's Final Four in Phoenix.

EXCLUSIVE: Kehlani is headlining the Super Saturday concert at the 2026 Women’s Final Four in Phoenix.

More details here:

Plum, Stewart raise concerns over WNBPA's handling of CBA talks WNBPA executive committee members Kelsey Plum and Breanna Stewart wrote a three-page letter Monday to players' union executive director Terri Jackson expressing "serious concerns about how the PA is h...

Breaking: Kelsey Plum & Breanna Stewart wrote a letter, acquired by ESPN, to WNBPA executive director Terri Jackson that expresses "serious concerns about how the PA is handling the current negotiations" for a new collective bargaining agreement.

More:

www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

Heyyy! We’ll get to meet in person.

From USWNT training: players and coaches are layered up, Rose Lavelle is sleeveless

Also appearing in training right now, midwestern sleeveless sicko, Rose Lavelle

Excited to join Sloane Martin and Meghan McKeown on the call for all three 🏀 games!

See you tomorrow!

The amour of tired I am cannot be understated, and I have a tournament to cover tomorrow.

KELSEY PLUM.

COLD BLOODED.

PHANTOM TO THE UNRIVALED CHAMPIONSHIP.

WNBA offers accelerated max eligibility, $5.75M salary cap in latest CBA proposal The WNBA made significant movement to accelerate maximum contract eligibility for star players on rookie contracts in the latest CBA proposal.

Here’s the latest on CBA negotiations.

In the WNBA’s latest proposal, it made changes to the salary cap and rookie contracts for players like Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers.

Details:

Can confirm that the WNBA submitted a counter proposal to the WNBPA’s Feb. 27 submission.

Story to come with details.

Chelsea Gray is Unrivaled’s 2026 MVP.

Here’s your 2026 ACC Women’s Tournament bracket.

I’ll be on-site, covering the tournament, when it starts on Wednesday.

( 📸: accwbb on X)

Catching up:

Aliyah Boston and Dana Evans are both out the rest of the Unrivaled season with lower extremity injuries.

Aziaha James and Makayla Timpson from the developmental pool have been assigned to Phantom.

Breeze to Brooklyn.

They take down the defending champ Rose.

Vinyl upsets Laces to punch its ticket to Brooklyn.

Fantastic win.

(Vinyl also beat Laces last year on this same date for a regular-season win.)

It’s currently Rhyne (Howard) Standard Time at Unrivaled tonight, in case your were wondering.

Aliyah Boston is Unrivaled’s 2026 Defensive Player of the Year.