{"id":405133,"date":"2026-08-13T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405133\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:34:09","slug":"paige-bueckers-scores-22-points-all-in-2nd-half-as-wings-hand-tempo-10th-straight-loss-94-88-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405133\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers scores 22 points, all in 2nd half, as Wings hand Tempo 10th straight loss, 94-88 | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Paige Bueckers scored all 22 of her points in the second half, and the Dallas Wings beat Toronto 94-88 on Wednesday, handing the expansion Tempo their 10th consecutive loss.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers went 4 of 4 from the field and from the free-throw line in a 13-point third quarter after missing all seven of her shots in the first half. The Wings ended a three-game skid, their longest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Arike Ogunbowale scored 21 with season highs in free throws and attempts, going 13 of 14, and Alanna Smith had 13 points and 11 rebounds. Awak Kuier scored 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas played without All-Star Jessica Shepard and rookie No. 1 overall draft pick Azzi Fudd. Shepard injured an ankle in the previous game against Minnesota, and Fudd has missed three with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Marina Mabrey scored 14 of her 23 points in the fourth quarter, when the Tempo got within three after trailing by 18 late in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers had eight assists and three steals, including one that led to a breakaway layup for a 10-point lead with 3:03 remaining, just after Ogunbowale had converted a three-point play.<\/p>\n<p>The Tempo trimmed the deficit to four points in the final minute, but Bueckers hit a jumper to get the lead back to six before Isabelle Harrison was called for a charge.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers was 7 of 11 from the field after the break and made all seven of her free throws in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Juskaite scored 18 points and Kia Nurse added 16 for Toronto, which was missing starters Brittney Sykes and Julie Allemand.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Tempo: Host Indiana on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wings: At Indiana on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full WNBA coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get any of our free email newsletters \u2014 news headlines, obituaries, sports, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdtimes.com\/newsletters\/\" class=\"btn btn-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Explore newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Paige Bueckers scored all 22 of her points in the second half, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,4490],"class_list":["post-405133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-national_sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405133","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=405133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}