UNCASVILLE, Conn. \u2014 Alanna Smith and reserve DiJonai Carrington scored 18 points apiece and the Minnesota Lynx clinched the regular-season title with a 94-70 win over the Connecticut Sun on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Minnesota (31-8) also set a franchise record for wins. The Lynx won 30 games last season in a 40-game schedule \u2014 four fewer than this year.<\/p>\n
Napheesa Collier added 17 points and nine rebounds for the Lynx, Courtney Williams had 15 points and eight boards and Kayla McBride had 15 points and six assists.<\/p>\n
Minnesota was 15 for 28 on 3-pointers with McBride hitting five and Smith four. The Lynx had 27 assists on 34 baskets with 10 different players getting at least one.<\/p>\n
Tina Charles and Marina Mabrey had 14 points apiece for the Sun (10-28) and Aaliyah Edwards 11.<\/p>\n
Natisha Hiedemann hit a jumper to give the Lynx a 21-19 lead after one quarter and they dominated the second quarter to take a 42-29 lead at the half.<\/p>\n
Williams reached 4,000 career points as she had 11 in the half, hitting all three of her 3s.<\/p>\n
Minnesota got off to a 9-2 start in the second half, taking a 51-31 lead on Collier’s layup. The Sun kept battling back, the closest was 11 when Lindsay Allen found Edwards alone under the basket to cut it to 61-50. Then Carrington drained a buzzer-beating 3 and the Lynx were up 66-54 entering the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
The Sun never got closer than 12 and the Lynx hit four 3s to pull away down the stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNCASVILLE, Conn. \u2014 Alanna Smith and reserve DiJonai Carrington scored 18 points apiece and the Minnesota Lynx clinched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-108932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}