Unrivaled, a 3-on-3 professional women’s basketball league heading into its second season, is adding a breeze and some bees to its lineup of teams.
The league announced on Wednesday, September 10, that it would add two expansion teams when its 2026 season tips off in January. The new teams, Breeze Basketball Club and Hive Basketball Club, bring the total number of teams in the league to eight.
“Expanding a year earlier than planned is a testament to the strong business model we’ve built and the potential Unrivaled has for long-term success,” said Unrivaled President of Basketball Luke Cooper on the league’s website. “We outperformed every goal we set for the league in year one, and with the incredible talent we have returning paired with the influx of new stars, it was a no-brainer to add two more clubs this season.”
The new teams mean an additional 12 players will join Unrivaled, and the league will also create a development pool consisting of six more players who can step in as relief players in case of injury.
The logo for Breeze Basketball Club depicts a beachside basketball court inside a roundel with palm trees at either end. The team’s colour palette includes two shades of purple, magenta and white.
Meanwhile, Hive Basketball Club has gone with a yellow, white and dark grey colour scheme. Its logo depicts a bee with basketball lines in its abdomen and a segmented beehive pattern in its wings. The bee is atop a white hexagon, all of which sits inside a yellow circle with a grey outline. White hexagons appear at the sides of the circle.
Unrivaled teams currently don’t use geographic identifiers. Unrivaled President Alex Bazzell told Sports Business Journal last year that the league hoped to move to a traveling tour-style schedule in 2026, and thus the identities were developed with future sale and relocation of teams in mind.
“Right now, we’re a single-entity model; the league owns all the franchises and the players are participating in the ownership group at the league level,” Bazzell told SBJ. “When you get great owners involved who are investing in a cause and believe in the long-term growth, there are special things that can happen. … We wanted to have in our back pocket the ability to sell these franchises in the next few years and to potentially attach cities to these franchises in the next few years.”
With the addition of the new teams, Unrivaled will add a fourth night of games each week, with each team playing twice a week. The 2026 schedule has not yet been released, but when it is, the league intends to eliminate back-to-back games for players.
Unrivaled was founded in July 2024 by Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier and New York Liberty forward Breanna Stewart to give elite women’s basketball players a chance to keep playing in North America during the WNBA offseason, rather than going overseas. The league is aiming for the highest average salaries in women’s sports history, and all 30 players in the inaugural season received equity ownership.
Unrivaled will be comprised of six teams of five players each playing. The league also says on its website that they’re aiming for the highest average salaries in women’s sports history, and that all 30 players in the inaugural season will receive equity ownership.
The 2025 Unrivaled season was played on a compressed (70 feet by 50 feet) 3-on-3 court at the Wayfair Arena, a soundstage in Miami that accommodated 1,000-1,500 spectators. Games were broadcast on TNT and TruTV, with an average of 221,000 viewers per game in the United States. Rose BC won the 2025 championship, beating Vinyl BC in the final.
