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Minnesota Lynx<\/a> (28-7, 17-2 Western Conference) at Indiana Fever<\/a> (19-16, 11-8 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n Indianapolis; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Indiana Fever faces the Minnesota Lynx after Kelsey Mitchell<\/a> scored 38 points in the Indiana Fever’s 99-93 overtime win against the Connecticut Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Fever are 10-8 in home games. Indiana averages 84.9 points while outscoring opponents by 2.9 points per game.<\/p>\n The Lynx are 11-6 on the road. Minnesota ranks sixth in the WNBA<\/a> with 34.3 rebounds per game. Jessica Shepard<\/a> paces the Lynx with 7.3.<\/p>\n Indiana makes 45.3% of its shots from the field this season, which is 3.3 percentage points higher than Minnesota has allowed to its opponents (42.0%). Minnesota averages 9.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 more made shots on average than the 7.2 per game Indiana allows.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the second time this season. The Fever won 74-59 in the last matchup on July 2. Natasha Howard<\/a> led the Fever with 16 points, and Alanna Smith<\/a> led the Lynx with 15 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Howard is averaging 11.7 points and 6.8 rebounds for the Fever. Mitchell is averaging 22.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Courtney Williams<\/a> is averaging 14.1 points and 6.3 assists for the Lynx. Kayla McBride<\/a> is averaging 14.6 points and 1.9 rebounds while shooting 40.0% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Fever: 6-4, averaging 87.2 points, 33.6 rebounds, 21.2 assists, 8.3 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.8 points per game.<\/p>\n Lynx: 7-3, averaging 89.4 points, 35.2 rebounds, 22.7 assists, 8.1 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 49.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.3 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Fever: Sydney Colson: out for season (knee), Caitlin Clark<\/a>: out (groin), Sophie Cunningham: out for season (knee), Aari McDonald<\/a>: out for season (foot).<\/p>\n Lynx: None listed.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n \n What did you think of this story?\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Minnesota Lynx (28-7, 17-2 Western Conference) at Indiana Fever (19-16, 11-8 Eastern Conference) Indianapolis; Friday, 7:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-101194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}