{"id":420097,"date":"2026-08-29T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420097\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:08:10","slug":"dallas-hosts-connecticut-following-bueckers-22-point-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420097\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas hosts Connecticut following Bueckers’ 22-point showing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connecticut Sun<\/a> (10-29, 3-14 Eastern Conference) at Dallas Wings<\/a> (23-16, 10-9 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Arlington, Texas; Sunday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Dallas Wings plays the Connecticut Sun after Paige Bueckers<\/a> scored 22 points in the Dallas Wings’ 96-78 victory against the Portland Fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Wings have gone 13-6 in home games. Dallas ranks sixth in the WNBA<\/a> with 8.6 offensive rebounds per game led by Jessica Shepard<\/a> averaging 2.9 offensive boards.<\/p>\n

The Sun have gone 3-16 away from home. Connecticut is seventh in the Eastern Conference with 19.1 assists per game led by Charlisse Leger-Walker averaging 3.6.<\/p>\n

Dallas averages 88.8 points per game, 1.3 more points than the 87.5 Connecticut gives up. Connecticut averages 5.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.5 fewer made shots on average than the 8.2 per game Dallas allows.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the third time this season. The Wings won 83-63 in the last matchup on Aug. 2. Shepard led the Wings with 15 points, and Diamond Miller<\/a> led the Sun with 22 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Shepard is averaging 14.4 points, 11.1 rebounds and five assists for the Wings. Bueckers is averaging 20.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Miller is averaging 9.6 points for the Sun. Kennedy Burke<\/a> is averaging 10.3 points and 3.0 rebounds while shooting 44.0% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Wings: 5-5, averaging 87.1 points, 34.7 rebounds, 20.5 assists, 6.9 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Sun: 3-7, averaging 75.5 points, 31.5 rebounds, 18.2 assists, 7.5 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 39.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Wings: Azzi Fudd: out for season (knee), Aziaha James: out (leg).<\/p>\n

Sun: Brittney Griner: out (knee), Kennedy Burke: out (not injury related), Olivia Nelson-Ododa: out (knee).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connecticut Sun (10-29, 3-14 Eastern Conference) at Dallas Wings (23-16, 10-9 Western Conference) Arlington, Texas; Sunday, 8:30 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32891,102,104,103,14421,33525,64550,93656,139163,14446,94593],"class_list":["post-420097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-wings","tag-diamond-miller","tag-event_preview","tag-jessica-shepard","tag-kennedy-burke","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420097","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=420097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}