{"id":159542,"date":"2025-09-15T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/159542\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T23:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:32:07","slug":"aces-aja-wilson-overcome-betting-odds-during-run-to-wnba-playoffs-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/159542\/","title":{"rendered":"Aces, A\u2019ja Wilson overcome betting odds during run to WNBA playoffs | Betting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Aces skyrocketed to 40-1 long shots to win the WNBA title on Aug. 2 after they were embarrassed in a 111-58 home loss to the Minnesota <\/a>Lynx<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the highest we\u2019ve had them to win the title,\u201d Westgate SuperBook WNBA oddsmaker Jeff Sherman said. \u201cYou don\u2019t expect a team that loses like that to have title aspirations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 53-point defeat fueled an amazing turnaround by the Aces. They have not lost since that game and are now the +250 second choice to win the WNBA championship behind the Lynx, who are the -125 favorites.<\/p>\n

The defending WNBA champion New York Liberty have drifted to the +750 third choice after two-time league MVP Breanna Stewart left Sunday\u2019s playoff opener with a knee injury.<\/p>\n

The Aces take a 17-game winning streak into Game 2 of their first-round playoff series against the Seattle Storm on Tuesday. They are 6\u00bd-point favorites in their bid to match the 2001 Los Angeles Sparks for the longest winning streak in league history at 18 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re obviously playing terrific and they\u2019ve got the (No.) 2 seed, so if they get past Seattle, they\u2019ll have home court against the Atlanta-Indiana winner. They\u2019ll be favored in that series,\u201d Sherman said. \u201cIf the Aces play Minnesota (in the WNBA Finals), they\u2019d be an underdog in that series, and that will be a seven-game series for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it will be a tough hill to get over against Minnesota, but I think the Aces should be able to handle their business leading up to that point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aces have books in hole<\/p>\n

Bettors have cashed on the Aces as they\u2019ve gone 13-4 against the spread during their win streak, including Sunday\u2019s 102-77 beatdown of the Storm<\/a> as 6-point home favorites.<\/p>\n

The Aces also are a liability for the Westgate, which took a $200 wager to win $7,000 on the hometown team to win it all at 35-1. It also took a $100 bet to win $3,000 at 30-1.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lose on them just because early in the season people were betting them and, as their odds went up, people were betting them,\u201d Sherman said.<\/p>\n

The Liberty opened as +175 favorites, followed by the Lynx at +350 and the Aces at 4-1.<\/p>\n

MVP<\/p>\n

Aces star center and reigning WNBA MVP A\u2019ja Wilson was a 100-1 long shot Aug. 7 to win a record fourth league MVP award before her odds quickly plummeted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin a week, she was down to 16-1 because they kept winning and she was producing her numbers like last year,\u201d Sherman said. \u201cThere was a rapid (descent) on those odds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lynx star forward Napheesa Collier was still the odds-on -900 MVP favorite and Wilson the 6-1 second choice heading into their Sept. 4 matchup at T-Mobile Arena. But the MVP odds dropped to near pick\u2019em after the Aces beat the Lynx 97-87<\/a> behind Wilson\u2019s 31 points and eight rebounds. Collier had only 12 points in the loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really swayed the perception off of that game because the Aces hadn\u2019t beaten them this season until that game,\u201d Sherman said.<\/p>\n

The favorite had flipped completely by the regular-season finale, as Wilson was -900 and Collier was the 6-1 second pick. Wilson all but sealed her fourth MVP award by putting up 23 points and 19 rebounds to lead the Aces over the Sparks for their 16th straight win<\/a> Sept. 11.<\/p>\n

The Westgate will win if Wilson wins as she didn\u2019t draw much action at long odds, other than a $29 wager to win $2,320 at 80-1.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, our best position is A\u2019ja winning it, just because I was really ahead of the market when she was dropping,\u201d Sherman said. \u201cI feel like an idiot not betting it at the time. When there was 50-1 out there, I was at 25-1.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contact reporter Todd Dewey at tdewey@reviewjournal.com.<\/a> Follow @tdewey33<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Aces skyrocketed to 40-1 long shots to win the WNBA title on Aug. 2 after they were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-159542","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\/159542","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=159542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}