The Seattle Storm picked up a massive away win over the Washington Mystics on Sunday, icing the victory with a clutch last-second shot. With seconds left in the game, Storm forward Nneka Ogwumike got a buzzer-beater to give Seattle the 84-82 win.<\/p>\n
Ogwumike took the contested jumper with two seconds remaining on the clock. The ball hit the rim and rolled for a moment before dropping in right as time ran out.<\/p>\n
The Storm had taken an early lead in the first half, before a surging Washington team battled back to tie the game. But, rather than send the game to overtime, Ogwumike sent Seattle home with a much-needed win.<\/p>\n
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Overall, it was a career night from Ogwumike, who put up 30 points and a career-high six three-pointers in the win. The veteran forward chipped in six rebounds and two assists as well as she hit 30+ for the second time this season, and came just eight points shy of her career high.<\/p>\n
Alongside Ogwumike, Dominique Malonga continued to put up stunning numbers off the bench for the Storm: The rookie phenom put up her fourth double-double this season, with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Three other Storm players \u2014 Gabby Williams, Skylar Diggins and Brittany Sykes \u2014 finished with double-digit points.<\/p>\n
Mystics center Shakira Austin put up 30 of her own in the loss, but her performance wasn’t enough to lift the team over Seattle. Washington now falls to 16-22 as the team desperately tries to stay in playoff contention. The top eight teams in the league qualify for the playoffs; the Mystics are in 10th place after the loss. (The three teams below them, who all only have nine total wins, have all been eliminated from the postseason.)<\/p>\n
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For the Storm, however, the win is a much-needed reprieve. After a sudden mid-season slump, Seattle is 20-18 and has won three straight. With six regular-season games remaining, the Storm are currently in seventh place, but are only a few games ahead of the three teams behind them; they will need to build a bit more padding to feel comfortable with a postseason spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Storm picked up a massive away win over the Washington Mystics on Sunday, icing the victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,40528,4648,4653,1611,12197,4647,82,737,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-94454","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-dominique-malonga","11":"tag-gabby-williams","12":"tag-nneka-ogwumike","13":"tag-seattle-storm","14":"tag-shakira-austin","15":"tag-skylar-diggins","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-washington-mystics","18":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94454","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=94454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}