The 2026 WNBA playoff bracket is set, and this year’s pool feels more wide open than it’s been in years.<\/p>\n
Just seven games separated No. 1 seed Minnesota from No. 8 New York, while only three games were the difference between No. 4 Atlanta and the top spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then there’s Golden State, which nearly finished with the league’s best record in just its second season as an expansion franchise, and Washington, which earned the No. 5 seed with the youngest roster in WNBA history. Las Vegas’ A’ja Wilson and Jackie Young are chasing their fourth championships, while Chelsea Gray looks to tie the all-time record with her fifth.<\/p>\n
There are plenty of fun storylines heading into the postseason, with many teams having a legitimate shot at making a deep run.<\/p>\n
Let’s run through our predictions for every series, from the first round all the way to the WNBA Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 WNBA playoff bracket is set, and this year’s pool feels more wide open than it’s been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-905164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}