{"id":135460,"date":"2025-09-11T05:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/135460\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T05:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:47:06","slug":"indiana-fever-are-in-the-wnba-playoffs-in-2025-how-many-teams-make-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/135460\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever are in the WNBA playoffs in 2025; how many teams make playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/indiana-fever\/158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Indiana Fever<\/a> just finished their regular season with 24-20 record and await their foe in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnba.com\/standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WNBA playoffs<\/a>. They will be seeded sixth or seventh, and will play either the No. 2 or No. 3 seed in the first round, which starts on Sunday, Sept. 14.<\/p>\n<p>The complete seedings won&#8217;t be known until the end of the regular season on Thursday, Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p>How do the WNBA playoffs work?The league&#8217;s No. 1 seed, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/minnesota-lynx\/156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Minnesota Lynx<\/a>, will play the No. 8 seed; No. 2 plays No. 7; No. 3 plays No. 6; and No. 4 plays No. 5. The first round is best-of-three games, with the better seed hosting Game 1 and, if necessary, Game 3. The worse seed hosts Game 2.The league semifinals will be a best-of-five series. The better seed hosts Games 1, 2 and, if necessary, 5. The worse seed hosts Games 3 and, if necessary, 4.The league championship series is best-of-seven for the first time, with the better seed hosting Games 1, 2 and, if necessary, 5 and 7. The worse seed hosts Games 3, 4 and, if necessary, 6.What WNBA teams are in the playoffs?<\/p>\n<p>Through Sept. 9; eight teams make the playoffs; x-clinched playoff berth; y-eliminated<\/p>\n<p>What date do the WNBA playoffs start?<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025. Games are scheduled for 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>How many teams make the WNBA playoffs in 2025?<\/p>\n<p>Eight of the league&#8217;s 13 teams make the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Indiana Fever get a home game in the WNBA playoffs?<\/p>\n<p>Yes. The WNBA changed the first round format to 1-1-1; the Fever will play the second game of the best-of-3 series at home.<\/p>\n<p>Who will the Indiana Fever play in the WNBA playoffs?<\/p>\n<p>The Fever could face Atlanta or Las Vegas in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Fever just finished their regular season with 24-20 record and await their foe in the WNBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,6410,7087,6003,3011,5904,2803,7081,8521,2598,736,2034,44,1333,2042,7080,82,865,7082,630,4134,4143],"class_list":["post-135460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-exclude","tag-exclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","tag-fever","tag-from","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-fever","tag-logic","tag-lynx","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-paywall","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-testing","tag-wnba","tag-womens","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135460","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=135460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}