Monique Billings and Rae Burrell were added Thursday to the U.S. women's basketball roster for the FIBA World Cup qualifier next week in Puerto Rico.

The pair will replace Aliyah Boston and Sonia Citron, who are no longer able to compete in the tournament that will take place in San Juan. Boston missed the Unrivaled playoffs with what was described as a right lower extremity injury. Citron missed the end of the regular season of Unrivaled with the same injury designation as Boston.

Billings was part of the 2017 USA under-23 national team that was undefeated at the Four Nations Tournament. Burrell will be making her U.S. competitive debut.

They'll join a talented group led by young stars Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers. The Americans also will have 2024 Olympic gold medalists Kahleah Copper, Chelsea Gray, Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young. Dearica Hamby and Rhyne Howard won the 3x3 bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Games. Washington Mystics rookie Kiki Iriafen rounds out the roster.

U.S. Olympic coach Kara Lawson will lead the team in San Juan for the first part of the tournament before returning to Duke to prepare the Blue Devils for the NCAA Tournament. She'll be assisted by Natalie Nakase, Nate Tibbets and Stephanie White. The trio were court coaches at that U.S. training camp in December.

The U.S. will face Senegal, Puerto Rico, Italy, New Zealand and Spain in the tournament. The Americans have already qualified for the World Cup in Berlin from Sept. 4-13.

The Americans are looking for a fifth consecutive World Cup championship.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Unrivaled is taking its semifinals on the road, playing at Barclays Center in New York on Monday night.

Top seed Phantom BC will face sixth-seeded Vinyl and No. 2 Mist will play No. 5 Breeze. The top two teams earned byes to this round. The title game will be Wednesday at Unrivaled’s home arena in Miami, with a prize pool of $600,000 to be split among players from the championship club.

Phantom will be missing star forward Aliyah Boston for the rest of the playoffs as she's out with a right lower extremity injury.

Playing at Barclays Center will be a homecoming for Unrivaled co-founder Breanna Stewart, who led the New York Liberty to its first championship in 2024.

The young 3-on-3 league drew a professional women’s basketball regular-season record crowd of 21, 490 that included “Good Morning America” host Robin Roberts, Sixers guard Kyle Lowry, and comedians Leslie Jones and Wanda Sykes when it played in Philadelphia in late January.

The Philadelphia tour stop represented a proving ground on whether taking the product on the road can lead to new revenue and expand the league’s fan base, while recalibrating a business model that was originally rooted in centralization.

MVP

Chelsea Gray won the league's MVP playing for Rose BC on Monday. The guard, who won Unrivaled's 1-on-1 tournament last month, averaged 24.2 points, 5.6 rebounds and 6.1 assists. Gray broke her own league single-season assists record with 85 in 14 games for Rose BC. She had nine games with 20 or more points and 10 contests with five or more assists. She also tied the league single-game 3-pointers record with 10 on Feb. 22.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Azzi Fudd scored 14 points and Allie Ziebell added 13 to help No. 1 UConn rout St. John's 85-49 at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night for its 47th consecutive victory.

The Huskies matched the fifth-longest winning streak in women's Division I history, equaling UConn's run from 2013-15.

UConn (31-0, 20-0 Big East) wrapped up another undefeated regular season and now is preparing to make a run at another Big East tournament crown. The Huskies have an average victory margin of nearly 38 points, which is the third-largest margin in Division I history — trailing only two other Huskies teams.

The 2014-15 squad won by 40.6 points and the 2015-16 team had a 39.7-point average margin.

This was the first time the St. John's women have played a standalone game at the famed Midtown Manhattan arena. The Red Storm have been part of doubleheaders with their men's team, and they also competed in the Maggie Dixon Classic for a few years.

The matchup drew 9,612 fans, most of whom cheered for the Huskies. UConn raced to a 24-9 lead after the first quarter behind Sarah Strong, Fudd and Serah Williams. The Huskies led 43-20 at the half.

Jailah Donald scored eight points to lead St. John's (21-10, 11-9). The Red Storm finished tied for fourth in the conference with Marquette and Creighton, but will be the No. 6 seed in the tournament.

Up next

UConn: Plays in the Big East quarterfinals on Saturday.

St. John's: Opens the conference tournament against Xavier on Friday.

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