WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Natasha Howard scored 17 points and the Indiana Fever beat the Washington Mystics 94-65 on Sunday to clinch a spot in the 2025 WNBA playoffs.<\/p>\n
The Fever (23-20) advance to the postseason for the second consecutive year, despite losing five players \u2014 including the 2024 WNBA rookie of the year Caitlin Clark (groin) \u2014 to season-ending injuries.<\/p>\n
Aliyah Boston had 12 points, 11 rebounds and five assists. Aerial Powers finished with 15 points and Shey Peddy had 13.<\/p>\n
Sonia Citron led Washington (16-27) with 17 points. Shakira Austin and Kiki Iriafen scored 11 apiece.<\/p>\n
Citron set Washington’s single-season scoring record with 644 points. Brittney Sykes set the previous mark of 636 points in 2023.<\/p>\n
There were six lead changes and seven ties before Peddy hit a 3-pointer with 3:21 left in the first half that made it 37-34 and gave the Fever the lead for good. Kelsey Mitchell made a driving layup about four minutes into the third quarter that pushed lead to 11 points.<\/p>\n
Peddy made another 3 with 3:33 to play that made it 88-58 and matched Indiana’s largest lead of the game.<\/p>\n
The Fever, who committed just turnovers, scored 27 points off 21 Washington miscues.<\/p>\n
The Mystics have sold out 43 consecutive home games, dating to the 2023 season.<\/p>\n
The Fever host Minnesota and the Mystics visit New York to wrap up the regular season on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Natasha Howard scored 17 points and the Indiana Fever beat the Washington Mystics 94-65 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1690,4129,645,88631,88632,88633,99,88634,434,70908],"class_list":["post-142158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-citron","tag-fever","tag-mystics","tag-scoring-leader","tag-season-ending-injuries","tag-single-season-scoring-record","tag-sports","tag-turnovers","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142158","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=142158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}