{"id":865695,"date":"2026-09-30T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865695\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:08:11","slug":"aces-fever-set-for-winner-take-all-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865695\/","title":{"rendered":"Aces, Fever set for winner-take-all game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana Fever<\/a> (28-16, 14-6 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces<\/a> (31-13, 17-6 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Las Vegas; Thursday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

WNBA<\/a> PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND: Series tied 1-1<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Indiana Fever visit the Las Vegas Aces in game three of the first round of the WNBA playoffs. The Fever defeated the Aces 99-89 in the last matchup. Caitlin Clark<\/a> led the Fever with 27 points, and Jackie Young<\/a> led the Aces with 31 points.<\/p>\n

The Aces have gone 15-7 at home. Las Vegas is second in the WNBA averaging 91.5 points and is shooting 48.6% from the field.<\/p>\n

The Fever are 13-9 in road games. Indiana is fifth in the WNBA with 25.5 defensive rebounds per game led by Aliyah Boston<\/a> averaging 6.2.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas makes 48.6% of its shots from the field this season, which is 2.6 percentage points higher than Indiana has allowed to its opponents (46.0%). Indiana averages 10.2 more points per game (96.0) than Las Vegas allows to opponents (85.8).<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chelsea Gray<\/a> is averaging 12 points and 6.7 assists for the Aces. A’ja Wilson is averaging 27.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Clark is averaging 22.3 points and 8.3 assists for the Fever. Kelsey Mitchell<\/a> is averaging 3.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Aces: 8-2, averaging 95.6 points, 32.9 rebounds, 21.8 assists, 8.9 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 50.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 82.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Fever: 5-5, averaging 93.7 points, 32.0 rebounds, 21.2 assists, 8.2 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 91.3 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Aces: Janiah Barker: out for season (leg), Dana Evans<\/a>: out (knee), NaLyssa Smith: out for season (leg).<\/p>\n

Fever: Tyasha Harris<\/a>: out for season (ankle), Damiris Dantas: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever (28-16, 14-6 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (31-13, 17-6 Western Conference) Las Vegas; Thursday, 9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2648,1760,7636,7637,230765,2839,7638,4806,4677,99,263939,434,13016],"class_list":["post-865695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aliyah-boston","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-chelsea-gray","tag-dana-evans","tag-event_preview","tag-indiana-fever","tag-jackie-young","tag-kelsey-mitchell","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-sports","tag-tyasha-harris","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865695","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=865695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}