Connecticut Sun (10-28, 3-13 Eastern Conference) at Indiana Fever (25-14, 12-5 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Indianapolis; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Indiana Fever plays the Connecticut Sun after Caitlin Clark scored 37 points in the Indiana Fever’s 113-90 victory over the Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n
The Fever are 12-5 in Eastern Conference games. Indiana leads the Eastern Conference with 96.6 points and is shooting 48.9%.<\/p>\n
The Sun’s record in Eastern Conference action is 3-13. Connecticut allows 86.9 points to opponents and has been outscored by 8.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Indiana makes 48.9% of its shots from the field this season, which is 2.6 percentage points higher than Connecticut has allowed to its opponents (46.3%). Connecticut averages 78.8 points per game, 12.1 fewer points than the 90.9 Indiana allows.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The Fever won 123-88 in the last matchup on July 23.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kelsey Mitchell is averaging 24.8 points for the Fever. Clark is averaging 23.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kennedy Burke is averaging 8.8 points for the Sun. Diamond Miller is averaging 10.7 points and 3.2 rebounds while shooting 37.8% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Fever: 6-4, averaging 97.4 points, 31.4 rebounds, 20.8 assists, 6.7 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 51.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 93.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Sun: 3-7, averaging 75.2 points, 32.3 rebounds, 18.0 assists, 7.6 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 39.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 86.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Fever: Aliyah Boston: day to day (leg), Damiris Dantas: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
Sun: Brittney Griner: out (knee), Olivia Nelson-Ododa: out (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":"Connecticut Sun (10-28, 3-13 Eastern Conference) at Indiana Fever (25-14, 12-5 Eastern Conference) Indianapolis; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":922636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[1518,1495,62,582,67,132,68,232,16966],"class_list":["post-1026926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-eastern-conference","tag-fever","tag-sports","tag-sun","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba","tag-women"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117166159039385932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026926","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=1026926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}