{"id":134217,"date":"2025-09-10T17:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134217\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:09:34","slug":"when-will-the-indiana-fever-know-their-wnba-playoffs-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134217\/","title":{"rendered":"When will the Indiana Fever know their WNBA playoffs opponent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/news\/when-will-indiana-fever-know-their-wnba-playoffs-opponent\/e4d40d73b2287cdeed69f198?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:When will the Indiana Fever know their WNBA playoffs opponent?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">When will the Indiana Fever know their WNBA playoffs opponent?<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite losing five players to season-ending injuries &#8212; including star point guard Caitlin Clark &#8212; the Indiana Fever are heading to the 2025 WNBA playoffs. Under first-year head coach Stephanie White, the Fever (23-20) have improved on last season&#8217;s 20-20 mark, maintaining one of the WNBA&#8217;s top three offenses and improving from the league&#8217;s 11th-ranked defense to its eighth-best unit.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But the injuries to Clark, Sophie Cunningham and others &#8212; combined with increased competitiveness around The W &#8212; means Indiana may well be a lower seed this season.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/news\/sophie-cunningham-was-right-indiana-fever-do-have-injury-curse-and-it-strikes-again\/313aefa90d65b0f584c7ac32\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sophie Cunningham was right \u2013 the Indiana Fever do have an injury curse, and it strikes again;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sophie Cunningham was right \u2013 the Indiana Fever do have an injury curse, and it strikes again<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The WNBA regular season ends Thursday; the Fever&#8217;s season finale though takes place Tuesday night, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse against the #1 seed Minnesota Lynx. Intriguingly, Indiana may avoid Minnesota in the first round with a loss tonight&#8230;or if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/wnba\/news\/valkyries-verge-golden-state-can-do-something-wnba-has-never-seen\/de7d3c226e7d57d54ba73e79\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Golden State Valkyries;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Golden State Valkyries<\/a>\u00a0defeat the Seattle Storm, who are vying for the final available playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>If the season ended today, with the Fever locked in to the #7 seed, Indiana would face the Atlanta Dream &#8212; though the Las Vegas Aces have the tiebreaker over Atlanta and would usurp the Dream as the #2 seed with two more victories. Either way, the Fever will not know where they&#8217;re going until the season ends on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>MORE WNBA NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When will the Indiana Fever know their WNBA playoffs opponent? originally appeared on The Sporting News Despite losing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[732,49,735,48,1612,2803,3460,736,36183,1611,10879,82,630,26214],"class_list":{"0":"post-134217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-atlanta-dream","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-caitlin-clark","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-golden-state-valkyries","13":"tag-indiana-fever","14":"tag-las-vegas-aces","15":"tag-minnesota-lynx","16":"tag-season-finale","17":"tag-seattle-storm","18":"tag-sophie-cunningham","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-wnba","21":"tag-wnba-playoffs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134217","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=134217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}