{"id":77308,"date":"2025-08-17T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77308\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:15:09","slug":"mitchell-scores-38-fever-rally-from-21-point-deficit-to-beat-sun-in-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77308\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell scores 38, Fever rally from 21-point deficit to beat Sun in OT"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNCASVILLE, Conn. \u2014 Kelsey Mitchell scored 34 of her career-high tying 38 points after halftime, Lexie Hull hit a corner 3-pointer with 44.9 seconds to play and the Indiana Fever<\/a> rallied from 21 points down and beat the Connecticut Sun 99-93 in overtime on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Odyssey Sims had 19 points and seven assists, and Natasha Howard added 18 points for Indiana (19-16). Aliyah Boston finished with 14 points, 13 rebounds, five assists, two steals and two blocks.<\/p>\n

Mitchell scored all of Indiana’s points \u2014 including back-to-back 3-pointers \u2014 in a 10-4 run to open overtime before Hull’s 3 made it 97-90.<\/p>\n

Marina Mabrey scored 27 points and Tina Charles 21 for Connecticut (6-27). Saniya Rivers had 15 points and a career-high five blocks, Aneesah Morrow finished with 10 points and 11 rebounds and rookie Le\u00efla Lacan had a season-high 14 assists to go with seven points.<\/p>\n

Sims made back-to-back layups to give Indiana a 4-1 lead 53 seconds into the game. But, the Sun scored the next 12 points to take the lead until Mitchell made a layup to open the scoring in overtime. Morrow made a layup about 2 1\/2 minutes into the third quarter that gave Connecticut its biggest lead at 54-33 and the Sun led 74-60 with 6:25 left in regulation.<\/p>\n

Mitchell converted a three-point play that made it 82-all with 44.7 seconds left. Charles made a turn-around jumper in the post before Boston answered with a short jumper that eventually forced overtime.<\/p>\n

Indiana\u2019s Sophie Cunningham left the game in the second quarter due to a knee injury and did not return.<\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark (groin) missed her 13th consecutive game for the Fever.<\/p>\n

The Sun play at Washington on Tuesday. The Fever host Minnesota on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNCASVILLE, Conn. \u2014 Kelsey Mitchell scored 34 of her career-high tying 38 points after halftime, Lexie Hull hit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-77308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77308","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=77308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}