{"id":396237,"date":"2026-08-03T07:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T07:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396237\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T07:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T07:17:10","slug":"dallas-wings-blow-out-connecticut-sun-in-sunday-rematch-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396237\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings blow out Connecticut Sun in Sunday rematch \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Wings dominated the Connecticut Sun on Sunday at home at the College Park Center in Arlington, 83-63. Connecticut has lost five in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Arike Ogunbowale, Jessica Shepard and Azzi Fudd led the way in scoring; Paige Bueckers struggled with only 6 points in 25 minutes, the fewest of her career.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas outscored Washington 20-2 to close the third quarter, taking a 72-45 lead into the break.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings are now 9-5 at home.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun have gone 3-13 away from home. <\/p>\n<p>The Wings are tied for the fifth-best record in the league, fourth in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings also beat the Sun 86-83 in July. They play a third and final time this season on Aug. 30. Connecticut is unlikely to make the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Three bus loads of fans from Houston attended the game. The Sun will relocate to Houston next season.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings take on the Washington Mystics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/sports\/mystics-beat-the-wings-for-1st-4-game-winning-streak-since-2020\/4057106\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trying to avenge Friday&#8217;s blown lead<\/a>, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWatch the best highlights from Washington Mystics center Shakira Austin&#8217;s 28-point, 10-rebound night as she helped take down the Dallas Wings, 81-75.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Wings dominated the Connecticut Sun on Sunday at home at the College Park Center in Arlington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1770,102,104,103,14421,154,14422],"class_list":["post-396237","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\/396237","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=396237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}