{"id":43054,"date":"2025-08-03T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43054\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:17:09","slug":"indiana-defeats-seattle-without-caitlin-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43054\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana defeats Seattle without Caitlin Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/85286209007-180725-usatodayparty-ct-032.JPG\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Indiana Fever&#8217;s Lexie Hull talks WNBA, fashion and personal style<\/p>\n<p>Indiana Fever&#8217;s Lexie Hull joins us at the The Collective\u2019s WNBA All-Star VIP party to talk basketball fashion and culture in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>The Indiana Fever defeated the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/seattle-storm\/161\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Storm<\/a> 78-74 on Sunday, Aug. 3, receiving multiple strong performances despite being without All-Star guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/wnba\/fever\/2025\/08\/01\/caitlin-clark-injury-update-fever-wings\/85466811007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> due to a right groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha Howard led the way for the Fever with a game-high 21 points, also adding five rebounds and five assists. Sophie Cunningham scored a season-high 17 points with four 3-pointers, and Aliyah Boston secured a double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Nneka Ogwumike led the Storm with 16 points, with Skylar Diggins right behind after scoring 13 points with four assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever are staying afloat minus Clark, and moved to 17-12 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/wnba\/storm\/2025\/07\/19\/nneka-ogwumikes-resume-speaks-for-itself-the-stro-is-greatness-personified-resume-speaks-for-itself\/84543632007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why the Seattle Storm&#8217;s Nneka Ogwumike might be the most underrated WNBA All-Star<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recap of the game, with quarter-by-quarter updates.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a late push from the Storm, the Fever holds on for a 77-74 win behind Natasha Howard&#8217;s 21 points, five rebounds and five assists performance. Aliyah Boston added 16 points and 12 rebounds, and Sophie Cunningham scored a season-high 17 points.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana moves to 17-12 on the season after its road win.<\/p>\n<p>This section will be updated after every quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle outscores Indiana 20-16 in the third quarter, to make its deficit 58-54 heading into the final period.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Cunningham had a big quarter for the Fever, cashing in three 3-pointers to raise her points total to a season-high 17 on the afternoon. Natasha Howard also has 17 points.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sophie Cunningham on FIRE from deep \ud83d\ude24<\/p>\n<p>she&#8217;s a perfect 4-for-4 from three and has already tied her season high with 16 points in Q3. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A1xh24iMRz\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/A1xh24iMRz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndianaFever\/status\/1952105355774730318?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gabby Williams and Nneka Ogwumike lead the Storm with 12 and 11 points, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana outscores Seattle 25-18 in the second quarter, as Natasha Howard leads all scorers with 12 points. Guard Sophie Cunningham has 10 points, including two 3-pointers in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Fever are getting contributions from their entire roster early.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever lead the Storm 17-16 after the first quarter, despite Caitlin Clark being out of the lineup as she still recovers from a groin injury. Natasha Howard leads all scorers with six points on 3-of-3 shooting, picking up the slack from Kelsey Mitchell, one of Indiana&#8217;s top scorers who shot 0 for 6 from the field in the first period.<\/p>\n<p>What time is Indiana Fever vs. Seattle Storm?<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Storm will host the Indiana Fever at 3 p.m. ET (Noon PT) on Sunday, Aug. 3 at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. The game will be broadcast nationally on ABC.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch Indiana Fever vs. Seattle Storm: TV, streamTime:\u00a03 p.m. ET (Noon PT)Location:\u00a0Climate Pledge Arena (Seattle)TV channel:\u00a0ABCStreaming:\u00a0ESPN+<\/p>\n<p>The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news \u2014 fast.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1el9h6z4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever&#8217;s Lexie Hull talks WNBA, fashion and personal style Indiana Fever&#8217;s Lexie Hull joins us at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,7075,735,48,7076,10877,8445,6003,8448,4648,14177,5904,2803,26677,4650,26678,1327,1342,13048,11578,44,10663,10667,10664,1333,1345,1463,1334,7675,1611,8444,8457,10876,10879,82,865,1440,1320,1462,696,1484,27817,1196,630,4134,4143],"class_list":["post-43054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-caitlin","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-clark","tag-cunningham","tag-diggins-smith","tag-fever","tag-gabby","tag-gabby-williams","tag-howard","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-fever","tag-kelsey","tag-kelsey-mitchell","tag-mitchell","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-natasha","tag-natasha-howard","tag-news","tag-nnemkadi","tag-nnemkadi-ogwumike","tag-ogwumike","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-point","tag-positive","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-storm","tag-skylar","tag-skylar-diggins-smith","tag-sophie","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-storm","tag-story","tag-the","tag-to","tag-to-the-point","tag-wa","tag-williams","tag-wnba","tag-womens","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43054","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=43054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}