{"id":200654,"date":"2025-09-04T22:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200654\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:18:10","slug":"how-the-indiana-fever-can-make-the-2025-wnba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200654\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Indiana Fever can make the 2025 WNBA playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are all the possible <a href=\"https:\/\/fever.wnba.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Indiana Fever;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Indiana Fever<\/a> playoff scenarios entering Friday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/basketball\/wnba\/fever\/2025\/09\/04\/angel-reese-suspended-for-chicago-sky-game-against-indiana-fever-technical-foul-comments\/85969436007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Angel Reese-less;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Angel Reese-less<\/a> Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n<p>How the Indiana Fever can be the fifth seed in the WNBA playoffs<\/p>\n<p>If New York (24-17), Indiana (21-20) and Seattle (22-20) tie with 24 wins, the Fever win the head-to-head tiebreaker and get the fifth seed. Indiana would be 4-3, New York 3-3 and Seattle 3-3. New York will need to lose out, and Indiana and Seattle win out for this to happen. Indiana loses the head-to-head tiebreaker with New York.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>How the Indiana Fever can be the sixth seed in the WNBA playoffs<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Finish with more wins than Seattle, Golden State (22-18) and Los Angeles (19-21)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Tie with only Seattle and finish with more wins than Golden State and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">The Fever lose any tiebreakers involving Golden State and\/or Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How the Indiana Fever can be the seventh seed in the WNBA playoffs<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">If the Fever win out, they can do no worse than seventh because they would have at least one more win than Los Angeles and tie with Seattle, winning the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Indiana will finish seventh if only two of the following happens: win more games than Los Angeles, win more games than Golden State, win at least the same number of games as Seattle.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How the Indiana Fever can be the eighth seed in the WNBA playoffs<\/p>\n<p>Indiana will finish eighth if only one of the following happens: win more games than Los Angeles, win more games than Golden State, win at least the same number of games as Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>How can the Indiana Fever miss the WNBA playoffs?<\/p>\n<p>Have the same or worse record as Golden State and Los Angeles, and a worse record than Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>What are the Fever&#8217;s odds of making the WNBA playoffs?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/bpi\/_\/view\/playoffs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According to the ESPN WNBA Basketball Power Index 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">According to the ESPN WNBA Basketball Power Index 2025<\/a>, the Fever have an 92.8% chance of making the playoffs with Los Angeles at 10.7% prior to Thursday&#8217;s games.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>WNBA playoff standings<\/p>\n<p>Here are the relevant teams&#8217; records and remaining schedules:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>5. New York (24-17)<\/strong>: Friday at Seattle, Tuesday vs. Washington (16-25), Sept. 11 at Chicago (9-30)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>6. Golden State (22-18)<\/strong>: Thursday vs. Dallas (9-32), Saturday vs. Minnesota (32-8), Tuesday at Seattle, Sept. 11 at Minnesota<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>7. Seattle (22-20)<\/strong>: Friday vs. New York, Tuesday vs. Golden State<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>8. Indiana (21-20)<\/strong>: Friday vs. Chicago, Sunday at Washington, Tuesday vs. Minnesota<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>9. Los Angeles (19-21)<\/strong>: Friday at Atlanta (27-14), Sunday vs. Dallas, Tuesday at Phoenix (26-14), Sept. 11 vs. Las Vegas (26-14)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get IndyStar&#8217;s Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark coverage sent directly to your inbox with our <a href=\"https:\/\/profile.indystar.com\/newsletters\/caitlin-clark-fever\/?ipid=NLsignupFever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Caitlin Clark Fever newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Caitlin Clark Fever newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/basketball\/wnba\/fever\/2025\/09\/04\/indiana-fever-playoffs-2025-what-seed-wnba-playoffs\/85979612007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Indiana Fever playoffs 2025: What seed will Fever be in WNBA playoffs?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Indiana Fever playoffs 2025: What seed will Fever be in WNBA playoffs?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are all the possible Indiana Fever playoff scenarios entering Friday&#8217;s game against the Angel Reese-less Chicago Sky.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[5356,1497,1596,1495,28462,234,2184,224,3663,2086,62,67,132,68,2058,232,105313],"class_list":{"0":"post-200654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-chicago-sky","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-fever","12":"tag-golden-state","13":"tag-indiana-fever","14":"tag-las-vegas","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-minnesota","17":"tag-seattle","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-washington","23":"tag-wnba","24":"tag-wnba-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115148355271493834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200654","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=200654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}