Dallas Wings (27-17, 13-10 Western Conference) at Golden State Valkyries (32-12, 15-8 Western Conference), San Francisco; Friday, 8 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
WNBA PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND: Series tied 1-1<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Golden State Valkyries host the Dallas Wings in game three of the first round of the WNBA playoffs. The Wings defeated the Valkyries 108-100 in the last matchup. Arike Ogunbowale led the Wings with 45 points, and Gabby Williams led the Valkyries with 36 points.<\/p>\n
The Valkyries are 15-8 in conference matchups. Golden State ranks eighth in the Western Conference with 31.2 points per game in the paint, led by Williams averaging 9.0.<\/p>\n
The Wings are 13-10 against Western Conference opponents. Dallas is 4-4 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
Golden State averages 10.4 made 3-pointers per game, 2.4 more made shots than the 8.0 per game Dallas allows. Dallas averages 8.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.3 more makes per game than Golden State gives up.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Janelle Salaun is averaging 12.7 points for the Valkyries. Williams is averaging 12.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jessica Shepard is averaging 14.5 points, 11.1 rebounds, and 5.3 assists for the Wings. Paige Bueckers is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Valkyries: 8-2, averaging 84.8 points, 35.4 rebounds, 21.1 assists, 7.9 steals, and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 44.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Wings: 8-2, averaging 93.7 points, 36.3 rebounds, 23.8 assists, 6.7 steals, and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 49.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Valkyries: Iliana Rupert: out for the season (pregnancy).<\/p>\n
Wings: Alanna Smith: out (leg), Azzi Fudd: out for the season (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings (27-17, 13-10 Western Conference) at Golden State Valkyries (32-12, 15-8 Western Conference), San Francisco; Friday, 8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[116505,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-481574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-dallas-wings","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}