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Ogunbowale's 45 Forces Deciding Game After Wings Win in OT

A playoff-record scoring night with a replay-reversed inbound foul swung the short series, sending a winner-take-all Game 3 to San Francisco.

Overview

  • Dallas rallied to beat Golden State 108-100 in overtime, with Arike Ogunbowale’s late heroics keeping the Wings alive in the best-of-three series on Wednesday night.
  • Ogunbowale hit an off-balance corner 3 with 4.1 seconds left to tie the game, and a subsequent on-court offensive-foul call on Gabby Williams was overturned on replay, creating a jump ball instead of free throws.
  • She opened overtime by banking a 3 and hit another long ball, finishing with a WNBA playoff-record 45 points while adding seven rebounds, four assists, three steals, 5-of-8 three-point shooting and 16-of-18 free throws.
  • Supporting notes: Paige Bueckers had an off night with 10 points on 3-of-13 shooting, Gabby Williams scored a career-high 36 but missed all six shots in the final 1:31 of OT, and Alysha Clark scored 21.
  • The outcome forces a winner-take-all Game 3 on Friday in San Francisco, where Golden State will try to close the series at home and Dallas will seek to carry its sudden momentum into a decisive road game.