{"id":902573,"date":"2026-09-20T06:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902573\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T06:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:24:30","slug":"preview-mystics-travel-to-indiana-to-play-the-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902573\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Mystics travel to Indiana to play the Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Washington Mystics (25-16) started the season with a lot of squeaks, but have since turned the season completely around, and are going to the playoffs. That said, can they climb up to No. 5?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">When: Sunday, September 20 at 4 pm ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Where: Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Mystics: Sonia Citron (to be determined)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Washington Mystics and the Indiana Fever are among five teams that are in a close race for playoff positioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Mystics, Liberty, Wings, Fever, and Dream in this order, occupy the 4-8 spots. But the difference between the Mystics and the Fever at spots 5 and 8 is merely 2 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Iriafen is having a career year averaging 9.5 rebounds a contest. For the Fever, star guard Caitlin Clark is showcasing her passing abilities this year more than ever before, with 8.5 of those a game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The last two games between these two teams this year were a must-watch. The first one, during the first week of the season went to overtime, and the Mystics edged it 104-102 in a high-scoring affair. Sonia Citron had a memorable night with 30 points . And this was in Indiana! The second meeting, in D.C., went the Fever\u2019s way, but again in a nail-bitter, 78076.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This, being the third and final, meeting of the season between these two teams, will decide who wins the season series and get the tie-breaker for the playoff seeding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here the highlights from these two games! Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Mystics (25-16) started the season with a lot of squeaks, but have since turned the season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82,737,312183],"class_list":["post-902573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-washington-mystics","tag-washington-mystics-game-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902573","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=902573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}