An update on the basketball career of Princeton\u2019s own Jackie Young from September 8-10, 2025:<\/p>\n
The Las Vegas Aces, taking full aim at attempting to earn the No. 2 seed in the upcoming WNBA Playoffs, took a commanding 28-14 lead after one quarter of play in Tuesday night\u2019s regular-season home finale against the Chicago Sky and never looked back from there, expanding its lead to as many as 35 points before eventually cruising to a 31-point victory, 92-61.<\/p>\n
After Chicago scored the opening basket of the game, the Aces quickly reeled off an 8-0 run and then led throughout the remainder of the contest. Las Vegas, after a 6-1 spurt by the visitors, then broke the game open with a 15-0 run, a burst that was featured by one three-pointer each by three different players, to take a 24-8 lead. In the opening quarter, Las Vegas shot 62.5% from the floor (10-for-16) and 55.6% on three-pointers (5-for-9).<\/p>\n
In the second quarter, the Aces\u2019, following a basket by guard Chelsea Gray, led by 14 points, 37-23. The visiting Sky went on a 10-0 run to make it a four-point contest before the Aces outscored Chicago, 6-2, to take an eight-point advantage, 43-35, into the halftime intermission.<\/p>\n
With both teams struggling in their floor-shooting effort to begin the second half, guard Jackie Young swiped a steal and subsequently converted a lay-up to spark an 11-0 Aces run, a burst that eventually became an 18-4 scoring run, to give Las Vegas a 22-point lead, 64-42, with just under two minutes left in the third quarter. Young led all scorers in the period with 10 third-quarter points.<\/p>\n
The Aces took a 20-point lead, 66-46, as the game entered the final quarter of regulation.<\/p>\n
Las Vegas\u2019 lead never dropped below 18 points over the final 10 minutes of play, and the Aces finished the game with a strong-shooting effort from the floor (10-for-16 altogether and 4-for-8 from three-point range).<\/p>\n
Young, along with guard and teammate Jewell Loyd, led all scorers with 15 points on the night. Young, who shot 6-for-7 from the floor (4-for-4 from two-point territory and 2-for-3 from \u2018behind the arc\u2019), also led the Aces with seven assists.<\/p>\n
With the win, the Aces moved to 29-14 on the season ahead of their 2025 regular-season finale, a road game in Los Angeles against the Sparks, which was played on September 11.<\/p>\n
Entering the final game of the regular season, the Aces were tied with the Atlanta Dream in the battle for the No. 2 seed in the WNBA Playoffs. Pending the results of the regular-season finale for both Las Vegas and Atlanta, the Aces will be either the No. 2 or No. 3 seed, and will then begin postseason play, where they\u2019ll take on either the Golden State Valkyries, the Indiana Fever or the Seattle Storm.<\/p>\n
The WNBA Playoffs are slated to begin on September 14.<\/p>\n
WNBA: Chicago Sky at Las Vegas Aces (September 9)<\/strong><\/p>\n LVA…28 15 23 26\u2026Total: 92<\/p>\n CHI…14 21 11 15\u2026Total: 61<\/p>\n Jackie Young\u2019s Stats (Sept. 9 v. CHI):<\/strong> Minutes Played: 26:43; FGM-A: 6-for-7; 2PM-A: 4-for-4; 3PM-A: 2-for-3; FTM-A: 1-for-2; Points: 15; +\/-: +19; Offensive Rebounds: 0; Defensive Rebounds: 3; Assists: 7; Personal Fouls: 3; Steals: 2; Turnovers: 1; Blocked Shots: 1.<\/p>\n Jackie Young\u2019s Per Game Stat Averages and Overall Percentages (through 43 games this season):<\/strong> 30.4 Minutes, 16.5 Points, 4.4 Rebounds, 5.0 Assists, 1.3 Steals, 47.4% FG, 35.2% 3FG, 89.4% FT, 2.2 Turnovers, 2.5 Personal Fouls, 0.4 Blocked Shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An update on the basketball career of Princeton\u2019s own Jackie Young from September 8-10, 2025: The Las Vegas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":222809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[83122,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-222808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-local_sports","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115195439080968142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222808","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=222808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}