The Phoenix Mercury weren\u2019t going to go quietly in the first round of the WNBA playoffs, and they made a statement in a 26-point win over the New York Liberty on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The defending champs now have to go on the road to win an advance to the second round.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oddsmakers have favored the Mercury in Game 3, but can they hold off New York?<\/p>\n
The Liberty won Game 1 of this series in overtime in Phoenix, but the Mercury are now 4-2 against New York (including playoffs) in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
With just one game left in the W in the first round, why don\u2019t we place a few bets on it?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a breakdown of my favorite play for this series finale.<\/p>\n
Find Peter Dewey’s\u00a0WNBA betting record here<\/a>\u00a0(futures included). You can also follow my daily plays on \u00a0BetStamp here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Odds via DraftKings Sportsbook<\/a><\/p>\n New York Liberty-Phoenix Mercury UNDER 156 (-110)<\/p>\n The first two games of this series have been relatively low-scoring \u2013 even though Game 1 went to overtime.<\/p>\n These squads combined for just 145 points in Game 1 and 146 points in Game 2, with one of the two teams failing to crack 70 points in both matchups.<\/p>\n With so much at stake in Game 3, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if these defenses hit yet another level on Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n Overall, the Mercury and Liberty both ranked in the top half in the WNBA in defense rating during the regular season, and after playing three games that went way OVER this number early in the campaign, they combined for just 143 points in their last regular-season meeting.<\/p>\n The UNDER was 25-18-1 in New York\u2019s games during the regular season and 24-18-2 in Phoenix’s games.<\/p>\n I think the total is a touch too high for Friday\u2019s series finale. <\/p>\n Odds refresh periodically and are subject to change.<\/p>\n If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-GAMBLER.<\/p>\n Claim the latest\u00a0<\/a>DraftKings promo code<\/a>\u00a0offer today. Sign up and place a $5 bet to earn a guaranteed\u00a0$200 in bonus bets plus over $200 off NFL Sunday Ticket<\/a>.\u00a0Regardless of the outcome of your wager,DraftKings will add eight $25 bonus bet tokens to your new account and award one promo code for a discounted NFL Sunday ticket subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Mercury weren\u2019t going to go quietly in the first round of the WNBA playoffs, and they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-154664","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\/154664","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=154664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}