Minnesota Lynx (28-7, 17-2 Western Conference) at Indiana Fever (19-16, 11-8 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Indianapolis; Friday, 6:30 p.m. CDT on ION and WNBA League Pass<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Indiana Fever faces the Minnesota Lynx after Kelsey Mitchell scored 38 points in the Indiana Fever\u2019s 99-93 overtime win against the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n
The Fever are 10-8 in home games. Indiana averages 84.9 points while outscoring opponents by 2.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Lynx are 11-6 on the road. Minnesota ranks sixth in the WNBA with 34.3 rebounds per game. Jessica Shepard paces the Lynx with 7.3.<\/p>\n
Indiana makes 45.3% of its shots from the field this season, which is 3.3 percentage points higher than Minnesota has allowed to its opponents (42.0%). Minnesota averages 9.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 more made shots on average than the 7.2 per game Indiana allows.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time this season. The Fever won 74-59 in the last matchup on July 2. Natasha Howard led the Fever with 16 points, and Alanna Smith led the Lynx with 15 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Howard is averaging 11.7 points and 6.8 rebounds for the Fever. Mitchell is averaging 22.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Courtney Williams is averaging 14.1 points and 6.3 assists for the Lynx. Kayla McBride is averaging 14.6 points and 1.9 rebounds while shooting 40.0% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Fever: 6-4, averaging 87.2 points, 33.6 rebounds, 21.2 assists, 8.3 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Lynx: 7-3, averaging 89.4 points, 35.2 rebounds, 22.7 assists, 8.1 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 49.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Fever: Sydney Colson: out for season (knee), Caitlin Clark: out (groin), Sophie Cunningham: out for season (knee), Aari McDonald: out for season (foot).<\/p>\n
Lynx: Napheesa Collier: questionable (ankle)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lynx (28-7, 17-2 Western Conference) at Indiana Fever (19-16, 11-8 Eastern Conference) Indianapolis; Friday, 6:30 p.m. CDT…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[234,13117,1493,1519,95715,30232,30233,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-166517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-indiana-fever","9":"tag-injuries","10":"tag-kelsey-mitchell","11":"tag-minnesota-lynx","12":"tag-overtime-win","13":"tag-points","14":"tag-rebounds","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115072547939047449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166517","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=166517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}