{"id":223671,"date":"2025-09-13T13:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/223671\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T13:38:12","slug":"wnba-power-rankings-lynx-still-flexing-with-playoffs-bracket-set-aces-liberty-chasing-in-loaded-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/223671\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Power Rankings: Lynx still flexing with playoffs bracket set; Aces, Liberty chasing in loaded bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"wnbapowerrankings0913.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wnbapowerrankings0913.png\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS Sports design<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 WNBA regular season has ended, the standings are set and the first-round playoff matchups are locked in. On Sunday, all four first-round series will get underway, and from there it&#8217;s a month-long sprint to crown a new champion. The last possible Finals date is Oct. 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at the first-round matchups:<\/p>\n<p>And the full bracket:<\/p>\n<p>                                                                    CBS Sports<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Sunday&#8217;s quadruple header, let&#8217;s take a look at how each playoff team is trending heading into the playoffs and which ones have the best chance to lift the trophy next month. Here are CBS Sports&#8217; pre-playoff power rankings.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports design The 2025 WNBA regular season has ended, the standings are set and the first-round playoff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":223672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2341,1491,4552,1503,5336,2598,1512,233,2340,1318,2473,234,2338,20022,1493,4144,1519,2336,1317,1315,1316,1520,1502,15534,20021,1494,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-223671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-aja-wilson","9":"tag-aliyah-boston","10":"tag-alyssa-thomas","11":"tag-atlanta-dream","12":"tag-breanna-stewart","13":"tag-brionna-jones","14":"tag-brittney-griner","15":"tag-caitlin-clark","16":"tag-dewanna-bonner","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-golden-state-valkyries","19":"tag-indiana-fever","20":"tag-jonquel-jones","21":"tag-kahleah-copper","22":"tag-kelsey-mitchell","23":"tag-las-vegas-aces","24":"tag-minnesota-lynx","25":"tag-napheesa-collier","26":"tag-ncaa","27":"tag-ncaa-football","28":"tag-ncaafootball","29":"tag-new-york-liberty","30":"tag-phoenix-mercury","31":"tag-sabrina-ionescu","32":"tag-satou-sabally","33":"tag-seattle-storm","34":"tag-sports","35":"tag-united-states","36":"tag-unitedstates","37":"tag-us","38":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223671","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=223671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}