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Minnesota Lynx<\/a> (33-9, 19-4 Western Conference) at Indiana Fever<\/a> (23-20, 13-8 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n Indianapolis; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Minnesota Lynx visits the Indiana Fever after Natisha Hiedeman<\/a> scored 24 points in the Lynx’s 78-72 win over the Golden State Valkyries.<\/p>\n The Fever are 12-9 in home games. Indiana ranks third in the Eastern Conference with 8.9 offensive rebounds per game led by Aliyah Boston<\/a> averaging 2.5.<\/p>\n The Lynx have gone 14-7 away from home. Minnesota has a 1-1 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n Indiana’s average of 8.3 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.4 more made shots on average than the 7.9 per game Minnesota allows. Minnesota has shot at a 47.3% clip from the field this season, 2.4 percentage points higher than the 44.9% shooting opponents of Indiana have averaged.<\/p>\n The teams play for the fourth time this season. In the last matchup on Aug. 24 the Lynx won 97-84 led by 32 points from Napheesa Collier<\/a>, while Kelsey Mitchell<\/a> scored 26 points for the Fever.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Boston is averaging 15.1 points, 8.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Fever. Mitchell is averaging 21.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Collier is averaging 23 points, 7.4 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.6 blocks for the Lynx. Courtney Williams<\/a> is averaging 14.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Fever: 5-5, averaging 86.1 points, 31.4 rebounds, 22.0 assists, 7.6 steals and 1.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 82.5 points per game.<\/p>\n Lynx: 6-4, averaging 86.0 points, 33.6 rebounds, 22.0 assists, 7.4 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.7 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Fever: Sydney Colson<\/a>: out for season (knee), Chloe Bibby<\/a>: out for season (knee), Caitlin Clark<\/a>: out for season (groin), Sophie Cunningham<\/a>: out for season (knee), Aari McDonald<\/a>: out for season (foot).<\/p>\n Lynx: None listed.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n \n What did you think of this story?\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Minnesota Lynx (33-9, 19-4 Western Conference) at Indiana Fever (23-20, 13-8 Eastern Conference) Indianapolis; Tuesday, 7:30…\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-209586","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\/115167371392274617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209586","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=209586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209586\/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=209586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}