{"id":859081,"date":"2026-09-24T15:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859081\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:10:16","slug":"the-mystics-will-be-either-the-no-5-or-no-6-seed-in-the-wnba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859081\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystics will be either the No. 5 or No. 6 seed in the WNBA playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Washington Mystics have clinched at least the No. 6 seed in the 2026 WNBA Playoffs with the Dallas Wings winning 103-91 over the Seattle Storm last night, securing them a 27-17 record. Tonight the Mystics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletsforever.com\/mystics\/72931\/mystics-vs-sky-preview-washington-finish-season-against-chicago\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">host the Chicago Sky <\/a>for their regular season finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Still, Washington has something to play for besides finishing the 2026 regular season at Capital One Arena. If they lose, Washington is still the No. 6 seed and would likely play against the Las Vegas Aces in the first round. But if the Mystics win AND the current No. 5 seed Indiana Fever lose to the Minnesota Lynx, then the Mystics will move to the No. 5 seed because they own the tiebreaker over Indiana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Do I expect the Mystics to get the No. 5 seed however? I\u2019m not sure. The Lynx have clinched the No. 1 seed in the playoffs so there\u2019s reason to just rest the starters. However, the New York Liberty are the No. 8 seed in the playoffs, a recent WNBA champion and a team that was supposed to be better than the Wings or the Mystics on paper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Still, I think the Lynx will have no problem resting the starters, so hoping for an Indiana loss tonight is wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Either way, I\u2019m pleased with how far the Mystics have come this season. And I don\u2019t mind the Mystics moving up to the No. 5 seed either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Mystics have clinched at least the No. 6 seed in the 2026 WNBA Playoffs with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,8253,165604,434],"class_list":["post-859081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-washington-mystics","tag-washington-mystics-team-analysis","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859081","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=859081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}