{"id":126950,"date":"2025-09-02T10:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126950\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:11:08","slug":"chicago-takes-on-connecticut-aims-to-break-4-game-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126950\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago takes on Connecticut, aims to break 4-game slide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/connecticut-sun-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut Sun<\/a> (10-30, 7-11 Eastern Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/chicago-sky-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Sky<\/a> (9-30, 3-15 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Chicago; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Chicago Sky looks to end its four-game skid when the Sky take on Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The Sky&#8217;s record in Eastern Conference play is 3-15. Chicago has a 5-20 record in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The Sun are 7-11 against Eastern Conference teams. Connecticut is 1-2 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Chicago averages 75.8 points per game, 10.1 fewer points than the 85.9 Connecticut allows. Connecticut averages 76.3 points per game, 9.7 fewer points than the 86.0 Chicago gives up to opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The teams meet for the fourth time this season. The Sun won 94-84 in the last meeting on Aug. 23. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/tina-charles-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tina Charles<\/a> led the Sun with 23 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/kia-nurse-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kia Nurse<\/a> led the Sky with 19 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/angel-reese-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angel Reese<\/a> is shooting 46.3% and averaging 14.6 points for the Sky. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/kamilla-cardoso-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kamilla Cardoso<\/a> is averaging 14.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Charles is averaging 16.4 points and six rebounds for the Sun. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/marina-mabrey-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marina Mabrey<\/a> is averaging 13.6 points and 3.8 rebounds while shooting 37.0% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Sky: 1-9, averaging 74.1 points, 35.3 rebounds, 20.5 assists, 5.1 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 42.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.3 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Sun: 5-5, averaging 78.8 points, 33.1 rebounds, 19.1 assists, 8.4 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 43.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.7 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">INJURIES: Sky: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/courtney-vandersloot-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Vandersloot<\/a>: out for season (acl).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Sun: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/bria-hartley-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bria Hartley<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Connecticut Sun (10-30, 7-11 Eastern Conference) at Chicago Sky (9-30, 3-15 Eastern Conference) Chicago; Wednesday, 8&hellip;\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-126950","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\/126950","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=126950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126950\/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=126950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}