Indiana Fever (19-10, 7-4 Eastern Conference) at Minnesota Lynx (24-6, 15-1 Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Minneapolis; Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Minnesota Lynx will look for its 25th win this season when the Lynx host the Indiana Fever.<\/p>\n
The Lynx are 11-4 on their home court. Minnesota is third in the Western Conference with 41.0 points per game in the paint led by Natasha Howard averaging 12.1.<\/p>\n
The Fever are 8-5 in road games. Indiana leads the Eastern Conference scoring 96.4 points per game while shooting 48.2%.<\/p>\n
Minnesota is shooting 48.1% from the field this season, 1.9 percentage points higher than the 46.2% Indiana allows to opponents. Indiana scores 13.6 more points per game (96.4) than Minnesota allows to opponents (82.8).<\/p>\n
The teams meet Sunday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Courtney Williams is averaging 14.9 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.2 assists for the Lynx. Kayla McBride is averaging 24.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kelsey Mitchell is averaging 23.6 points for the Fever. Caitlin Clark is averaging 18.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Lynx: 9-1, averaging 96.1 points, 32.6 rebounds, 22.8 assists, 9.5 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Fever: 8-2, averaging 101.0 points, 33.0 rebounds, 19.8 assists, 7.8 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 50.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 90.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Lynx: Emma Cechova: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
Fever: Damiris Dantas: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a9 2022 Data Skrive. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever (19-10, 7-4 Eastern Conference) at Minnesota Lynx (24-6, 15-1 Western Conference) Minneapolis; Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[32707,4129,28490,99,17814,434,1764],"class_list":["post-797025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-eastern-conference","tag-fever","tag-lynx","tag-sports","tag-western-conference","tag-wnba","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797025","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=797025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}