{"id":138793,"date":"2025-09-07T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/138793\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:30:06","slug":"connecticut-visits-atlanta-after-howards-37-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/138793\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut visits Atlanta after Howard&#8217;s 37-point game"},"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> (11-31, 7-12 Eastern Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/atlanta-dream-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> (28-14, 13-6 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">College Park, Georgia; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta Dream faces the Connecticut Sun after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/rhyne-howard-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rhyne Howard<\/a> scored 37 points in the Atlanta Dream&#8217;s 104-85 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/los-angeles-sparks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Sparks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The Dream have gone 13-6 against Eastern Conference opponents. Atlanta is third in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> allowing 77.2 points per game while holding opponents to 43.3% shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The Sun&#8217;s record in Eastern Conference play is 7-12. Connecticut is fifth in the Eastern Conference scoring 76.3 points per game and is shooting 41.4%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Atlanta averages 9.6 made 3-pointers per game, 1.2 more made shots than the 8.4 per game Connecticut allows. Connecticut averages 76.3 points per game, 0.9 fewer than the 77.2 Atlanta allows.<\/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 Dream won 93-76 in the last matchup on Sept. 1.<\/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\/brionna-jones-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brionna Jones<\/a> is averaging 12.9 points and 7.4 rebounds for the Dream. Howard is averaging 20.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/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\/tina-charles-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tina Charles<\/a> is scoring 16.6 points per game and averaging 6.0 rebounds for the Sun. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/saniya-rivers-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saniya Rivers<\/a> is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers 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: Dream: 7-3, averaging 84.0 points, 37.1 rebounds, 21.4 assists, 6.3 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 43.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.7 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 81.1 points, 33.6 rebounds, 18.5 assists, 7.7 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.3 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">INJURIES: Dream: None listed.<\/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 (11-31, 7-12 Eastern Conference) at Atlanta Dream (28-14, 13-6 Eastern Conference) College Park, Georgia;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-138793","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\/138793","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=138793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}