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The No. 6 Indiana Fever are laughing<\/a> in the face of adversity, pulling off the biggest comeback win in team history on Sunday despite guard Sophie Cunningham exiting with a right knee injury following a second-quarter collision.<\/p>\n

As Cunningham joined<\/a> fellow guards Caitlin Clark (right groin), Aari McDonald (broken foot), and Sydney Colson (ACL tear) on the injured list<\/a>, the Fever overcame a 21-point deficit to down the No. 13 Connecticut Sun 99-93 in overtime behind guard Kelsey Mitchell’s 38-point performance.<\/p>\n

“We came in at halftime, we talked about chipping away, being resilient,” said Indiana forward Aliyah Boston, who notched 14 points and 13 rebounds for her 15th double-double of the year in Sunday’s win, setting a new single-season Fever record. “That’s kind of been our story this entire season.”<\/p>\n

Amid the myriad injuries causing the beleaguered Fever to lose steam in the WNBA standings<\/a>, Cunningham’s knock \u2014 which will reportedly undergo an MRI assessment on Monday \u2014 is just the latest blow in an expected banner year for the 25-year-old franchise.<\/p>\n

Seeing increased playing time since Clark’s mid-July injury, Cunningham is averaging 8.6 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 1.2 assists per game while shooting 46.9% from the field this season.<\/p>\n

Looking to bolster their backcourt with Clark’s return timeline still in question, Indiana signed veteran guard Odyssey Sims and rookie Kyra Lambert to hardship contracts last week.<\/p>\n

“This group is tight…. They stay together,” Fever coach Stephanie White told reporters<\/a> following Sunday’s game. “I think, for us, reiterating we’ve got to be where our feet are. We can’t look too far behind us. We can’t look too far in front of us. We’ve got to make sure that we’re focused on one day at a time.”<\/p>\n

How to watch the Indiana Fever in this week’s WNBA slate<\/p>\n

Indiana will be thankful for a few days off this week, taking time to recover before hosting the seemingly unstoppable No. 1 Minnesota Lynx on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Fever’s clash with the league leaders will tip off at 7:30 PM ET, with live coverage airing on ION<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 6 Indiana Fever are laughing in the face of adversity, pulling off the biggest comeback win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[48633,32560,732,23311,49,48,726,40528,1612,24809,3460,4653,3461,6740,1611,4647,82,630,48634,32562],"class_list":["post-80515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-2025-wnba-draft","tag-2025-wnba-season","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-brittney-griner","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-sky","tag-dominique-malonga","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-jordin-canada","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-rhyne-howard","tag-seattle-storm","tag-skylar-diggins","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-canada-game","tag-wnba-injuries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80515","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=80515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}