{"id":101626,"date":"2025-07-29T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/101626\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:40:13","slug":"phoenix-visits-indiana-following-mitchells-35-point-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/101626\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix visits Indiana following Mitchell&#8217;s 35-point outing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/phoenix-mercury-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> (16-9, 9-7 Western Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/indiana-fever-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a> (14-12, 9-7 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Indianapolis; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Indiana Fever hosts the Phoenix Mercury after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/kelsey-mitchell-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsey Mitchell<\/a> scored 35 points in the Indiana Fever&#8217;s 93-78 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/chicago-sky-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Sky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Fever have gone 8-6 in home games. Indiana is seventh in the league averaging 8.2 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 33.6% from downtown. Mitchell leads the team averaging 2.4 makes while shooting 38.3% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Mercury are 7-5 on the road. Phoenix ranks fifth in the Western Conference scoring 33.0 points per game in the paint led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/alyssa-thomas-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alyssa Thomas<\/a> averaging 11.1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Indiana averages 84.4 points per game, 4.6 more points than the 79.8 Phoenix gives up. Phoenix averages 83.1 points per game, 2.7 more than the 80.4 Indiana gives up to opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The matchup Wednesday is the first meeting of the season for the two teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/aliyah-boston-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aliyah Boston<\/a> is scoring 15.4 points per game with 8.0 rebounds and 3.9 assists for the Fever. Mitchell is averaging 22.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Thomas is averaging 15.7 points, eight rebounds, 9.4 assists and 1.5 steals for the Mercury. Sami Whitcomb is averaging 11.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Fever: 6-4, averaging 84.9 points, 33.8 rebounds, 21.7 assists, 8.5 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 44.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.9 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Mercury: 5-5, averaging 84.4 points, 34.7 rebounds, 22.2 assists, 7.1 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 44.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 82.3 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">INJURIES: Fever: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/caitlin-clark-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a>: out (groin).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Mercury: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Phoenix Mercury (16-9, 9-7 Western Conference) at Indiana Fever (14-12, 9-7 Eastern Conference) Indianapolis; Wednesday, 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-101626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114935629519080203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}