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Chicago Sky<\/a> (8-23, 2-13 Eastern Conference) at Connecticut Sun<\/a> (5-26, 3-8 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n Uncasville, Connecticut; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Connecticut Sun enters the matchup with Chicago Sky after losing five games in a row.<\/p>\n The Sun are 3-8 against Eastern Conference opponents. Connecticut is sixth in the Eastern Conference in rebounding with 31.2 rebounds. Tina Charles<\/a> paces the Sun with 5.8 boards.<\/p>\n The Sky are 2-13 in Eastern Conference play. Chicago is 1-18 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n Connecticut is shooting 40.4% from the field this season, 4.5 percentage points lower than the 44.9% Chicago allows to opponents. Chicago averages 6.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.7 fewer made shots on average than the 8.6 per game Connecticut gives up.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the second time this season. The Sky won 78-66 in the last matchup on June 15.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Olivia Nelson-Ododa<\/a> is averaging 8.7 points and 5.3 rebounds for the Sun. Charles is averaging 15.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Kamilla Cardoso<\/a> is scoring 12.4 points per game and averaging 8.4 rebounds for the Sky. Rachel Banham<\/a> is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Sun: 2-8, averaging 79.9 points, 32.6 rebounds, 18.4 assists, 9.7 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 41.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.2 points per game.<\/p>\n Sky: 1-9, averaging 68.4 points, 34.5 rebounds, 17.1 assists, 5.0 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 40.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 86.6 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Sun: None listed.<\/p>\n Sky: Courtney Vandersloot<\/a>: out for season (acl), Angel Reese<\/a>: out (back).<\/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":"Associated Press Chicago Sky (8-23, 2-13 Eastern Conference) at Connecticut Sun (5-26, 3-8 Eastern Conference) Uncasville, Connecticut; Wednesday,…\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-139154","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\/115014752345856239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139154","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=139154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139154\/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=139154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}