{"id":204289,"date":"2025-09-06T06:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/204289\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:22:10","slug":"washington-faces-indiana-on-home-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/204289\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington faces Indiana on home losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/indiana-fever-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a> (22-20, 12-8 Eastern Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/washington-mystics-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Mystics<\/a> (16-26, 8-10 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Baltimore; Sunday, 3 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Washington Mystics aims to stop its four-game home skid with a win against Indiana Fever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The Mystics are 8-10 in Eastern Conference games. Washington has a 3-6 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The Fever have gone 12-8 against Eastern Conference opponents. Indiana ranks third in the Eastern Conference with 8.9 offensive rebounds per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/aliyah-boston-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aliyah Boston<\/a> averaging 2.4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Washington scores 77.7 points per game, 4.4 fewer points than the 82.1 Indiana allows. Indiana has shot at a 45.4% clip from the field this season, 1.1 percentage points above the 44.3% shooting opponents of Washington have averaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The teams play for the fourth time this season. The Mystics won the last matchup 88-84 on Aug. 15, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/sonia-citron-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sonia Citron<\/a> scoring 21 points in the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Kiki Iriafen is scoring 13.3 points per game and averaging 8.7 rebounds for the Mystics. Citron is averaging 15.4 points and 2.5 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Boston is scoring 15.1 points per game and averaging 8.1 rebounds for the Fever. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/kelsey-mitchell-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsey Mitchell<\/a> is averaging 2.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Mystics: 2-8, averaging 74.3 points, 31.3 rebounds, 20.3 assists, 6.0 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.6 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Fever: 4-6, averaging 84.7 points, 32.4 rebounds, 21.4 assists, 7.3 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.1 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">INJURIES: Mystics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/georgia-amoore-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia Amoore<\/a>: out for season (acl), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/jacy-sheldon-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacy Sheldon<\/a>: out (ankle).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Fever: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/sydney-colson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Colson<\/a>: out for season (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/chloe-bibby-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chloe Bibby<\/a>: out for season (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/caitlin-clark-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a>: out for season (groin), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/sophie-cunningham-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Cunningham<\/a>: out for season (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/aari-mcdonald-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aari McDonald<\/a>: out for season (foot).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Indiana Fever (22-20, 12-8 Eastern Conference) at Washington Mystics (16-26, 8-10 Eastern Conference) Baltimore; Sunday, 3&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-204289","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\/115155916933621795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204289","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=204289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204289\/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=204289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}