Phoenix Mercury (5-13, 4-8 Western Conference) at Indiana Fever (10-7, 5-4 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Indianapolis; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. CDT on USA Network.<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix Mercury plays the Indiana Fever after Kahleah Copper scored 20 points in the Mercury\u2019s 86-77 loss to the Indiana Fever.<\/p>\n
The Fever have gone 7-3 in home games. Indiana is 1-3 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Mercury are 3-7 on the road. Phoenix is eighth in the WNBA allowing 85.9 points while holding opponents to 45.5% shooting.<\/p>\n
Indiana is shooting 46.0% from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points higher than the 45.5% Phoenix allows to opponents. Phoenix averages 82.2 points per game, 6.7 fewer points than the 88.9 Indiana gives up.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time this season. The Fever won the last matchup 86-77 on June 23, with Caitlin Clark scoring 24 points in the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Clark is averaging 21.3 points and 8.1 assists for the Fever. Kelsey Mitchell is averaging 20.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Alyssa Thomas is averaging 14.1 points, 6.7 rebounds, 8.4 assists and 1.5 steals for the Mercury. Copper is averaging 17.6 points and 4.1 rebounds while shooting 40.3% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Fever: 6-4, averaging 91.5 points, 35.1 rebounds, 19.3 assists, 5.4 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 90.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Mercury: 3-7, averaging 79.4 points, 31.4 rebounds, 20.3 assists, 7.5 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 42.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Fever: None listed.<\/p>\n
Mercury: Sami Whitcomb: out (knee), Monique Akoa Makani: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mercury (5-13, 4-8 Western Conference) at Indiana Fever (10-7, 5-4 Eastern Conference) Indianapolis; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. CDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-723080","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\/723080","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=723080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}