{"id":3625,"date":"2025-07-12T07:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T07:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3625\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T07:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T07:04:04","slug":"storm-host-the-mystics-in-out-of-conference-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3625\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm host the Mystics in out-of-conference matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/washington-mystics-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Mystics<\/a> (10-10, 6-5 Eastern Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/seattle-storm-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Storm<\/a> (13-8, 8-5 Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\">Seattle; Sunday, 6 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Seattle Storm and Washington Mystics play in non-conference action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\">The Storm have gone 7-3 in home games. Seattle is third in the Western Conference scoring 82.1 points while shooting 45.6% from the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\">The Mystics are 3-7 in road games. Washington is fifth in the Eastern Conference scoring 78.6 points per game and is shooting 43.0%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\">Seattle makes 45.6% of its shots from the field this season, which is 3.5 percentage points higher than Washington has allowed to its opponents (42.1%). Washington averages 78.6 points per game, 0.6 fewer than the 79.2 Seattle gives up to opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\">The matchup Sunday is the first meeting of the season for the two teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/nneka-ogwumike-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nneka Ogwumike<\/a> is scoring 17.0 points per game with 7.8 rebounds and 2.4 assists for the Storm. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/skylar-diggins-smith-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Skylar Diggins<\/a> is averaging 18.4 points and 5.7 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/sonia-citron-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sonia Citron<\/a> is averaging 14.3 points and 5.1 rebounds for the Mystics. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/shakira-austin-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakira Austin<\/a> is averaging 15.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Storm: 7-3, averaging 83.8 points, 30.7 rebounds, 21.3 assists, 9.8 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.5 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\">Mystics: 6-4, averaging 77.6 points, 34.1 rebounds, 18.3 assists, 7.2 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 42.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.6 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\">INJURIES: Storm: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/katie-lou-samuelson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Lou Samuelson<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\">Mystics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/georgia-amoore-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia Amoore<\/a>: out for season (acl).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-93877039=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Washington Mystics (10-10, 6-5 Eastern Conference) at Seattle Storm (13-8, 8-5 Western Conference) Seattle; Sunday, 6&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-3625","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\/3625","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=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/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=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}