The WNBA announced Wednesday its full schedule for the 2025 playoffs, which will tip off on Sept. 13 and extend as far as Oct. 17.<\/p>\n
Here are the tentative dates for each round:<\/p>\n
The conclusion to this year’s postseason will be a little different after the WNBA adopted a best-of-seven format for the Finals. A champion had previously been decided over a five-game series.<\/p>\n
The higher seed in the Finals will host the first two games and then Games 5 and 7 if necessary.<\/p>\n
The league also tweaked the travel schedule for the first round. It will utilize a 1-1-1 structure with the teams alternating home-court advantage.<\/p>\n
Under the old rules, the higher seed hosted the first two games, which presented a situation where the better regular season team would have to hit the road for a winner-take-all Game 3.<\/p>\n
“The new 1-1-1 structure for the First Round of the WNBA Playoffs presented by Google will guarantee a home game for both teams in a series, which was a priority based on discussions with the WNBA’s team presidents, head coaches, general managers and the Competition Committee,” said<\/a> head of league operations Bethany Donaphin last October.<\/p>\n The Minnesota Lynx are all but assured of claiming the No. 1 overall seed. They own a 6.5-game lead on the next closest teams with 10 games to play.<\/p>\n Beyond that, the playoff bracket could shift in a lot of ways before Sept. 13. A half-game separates the second-place New York Liberty from the Las Vegas Aces in fifth. Further down the standings, three games are all that stand between the sixth-place Indiana Fever and the 10th-place Washington Mystics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA announced Wednesday its full schedule for the 2025 playoffs, which will tip off on Sept. 13…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-84365","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\/84365","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=84365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}