Phoenix Mercury (5-12, 4-8 Western Conference) at Indiana Fever (9-7, 5-4 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Indianapolis; Monday, 7 p.m. CDT on USA Network.<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Indiana Fever hosts the Phoenix Mercury after Caitlin Clark scored 26 points in the Indiana Fever\u2019s 113-96 loss to the Atlanta Dream.<\/p>\n
The Fever have gone 6-3 at home. Indiana scores 92.4 points while outscoring opponents by 2.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Mercury are 3-6 on the road. Phoenix is sixth in the Western Conference scoring 32.8 points per game in the paint led by Alyssa Thomas averaging 9.4.<\/p>\n
Indiana\u2019s average of 9.6 made 3-pointers per game this season is the same per game average that Phoenix allows. Phoenix\u2019s 42.8% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.6 percentage points lower than Indiana has given up to its opponents (45.4%).<\/p>\n
The matchup Monday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Clark is scoring 21.1 points per game with 4.3 rebounds and 8.0 assists for the Fever. Kelsey Mitchell is averaging 19.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Thomas is averaging 13.8 points, 6.8 rebounds, 8.4 assists and 1.5 steals for the Mercury. Kahleah Copper is averaging 17.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Fever: 5-5, averaging 91.7 points, 34.6 rebounds, 20.0 assists, 5.5 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 91.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Mercury: 3-7, averaging 79.1 points, 31.7 rebounds, 20.3 assists, 7.7 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 42.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Fever: Caitlin Clark: probable (back).<\/p>\n
Mercury: Sami Whitcomb: out (knee), Monique Akoa Makani: day to day (hamstring).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mercury (5-12, 4-8 Western Conference) at Indiana Fever (9-7, 5-4 Eastern Conference) Indianapolis; Monday, 7 p.m. CDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-718972","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\/718972","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=718972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}