The 2024 WNBA All-Star Game will be a blast from the past for Irish fans.
On Tuesday, the league announced that Arike Ogunbowale and Kayla McBride will play for Team WNBA on July 20 in Phoenix. They will be joined on the court by Team USA guards Jewell Loyd and Jackie Young, bringing the former Irish player count to four. No other school has more than three women participating in the game. Ogunbowale and McBride are each making their fourth appearance as WNBA All Stars.
Ogunbowale, the star guard for the Dallas Wings, ranks second in the WNBA with 23.7 points per game this season. She leads the league with 3.3 treys per contest and is also fifth with a 90.7 percent success rate from the free throw line.
Minnesota Lynx guard McBride is back in the All-Star Game for the first time since 2019. She is posting 15.8 points per game and shooting 43.3 percent from behind the arc, a mark that ranks fourth in the WNBA. McBride also helped lead the Lynx to their first WNBA Commissioner’s Cup earlier this year and has the team rolling at 14-5 on the year.
The WNBA All-Star Game will be held at the Footprint Center and will be televised on ABC at 8:30 p.m. ET.