Connecticut Sun (7-22, 2-11 Eastern Conference) at Dallas Wings (18-11, 8-6 Western Conference) in Arlington; Sunday, 6 p.m. CST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Connecticut Sun comes into the matchup against Dallas Wings as losers of four in a row.<\/p>\n
The Wings have gone 8-5 at home. Dallas is second in the WNBA with 22.3 assists per game. Paige Bueckers leads the Wings averaging 6.0.<\/p>\n
The Sun have gone 3-12 away from home. Connecticut ranks sixth in the Eastern Conference with 23.4 defensive rebounds per game led by Olivia Nelson-Ododa averaging 4.2.<\/p>\n
Dallas\u2019 average of 8.3 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.1 more made shots on average than the 8.2 per game Connecticut allows. Connecticut averages 5.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.0 fewer made shots on average than the 7.4 per game Dallas gives up.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time this season. The Wings won the last meeting 86-83 on July 3, with Bueckers scoring 25 points in the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jessica Shepard is averaging 14.7 points, 11.9 rebounds and 5.5 assists for the Wings. Bueckers is averaging 20.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nelson-Ododa is scoring 9.9 points per game and averaging 5.9 rebounds for the Sun. Kennedy Burke is averaging 1.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Wings: 7-3, averaging 91.2 points, 34.3 rebounds, 22.2 assists, 5.1 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 86.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Sun: 3-7, averaging 82.6 points, 31.6 rebounds, 20.6 assists, 8.5 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 89.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Wings: None listed.<\/p>\n
Sun: Aaliyah Edwards: day to day (knee), Brittney Griner: day to day (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":"Connecticut Sun (7-22, 2-11 Eastern Conference) at Dallas Wings (18-11, 8-6 Western Conference) in Arlington; Sunday, 6 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1770,102,104,103,14421,154,14422],"class_list":["post-395941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-wings","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}