{"id":847626,"date":"2026-06-06T03:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/847626\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T03:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:37:21","slug":"chicago-sky-beat-connecticut-sun-85-80-to-end-5-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/847626\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Sky beat Connecticut Sun 85-80 to end 5-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skylar Diggins scored 18 of her 24 points in the first half, Elizabeth Williams made two key baskets in the final minute, and the Chicago Sky<\/a> beat the Connecticut Sun 85-80 on Friday at Wintrust Arena to end a five-game losing streak<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Diggins completed a three-point play with 1:20 remaining to extend the Sky\u2019s lead to 80-77. But Saniya Rivers answered at the other end with a 3-pointer from the corner.<\/p>\n

Williams put the Sky ahead 82-79 with 48.9 seconds left on a basket in the lane and she added a hook shot at 14.5 for a five-point lead. Then, Diggins sealed it at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n

Azura Stevens had 13 points and 10 rebounds, and Natasha Cloud also scored 13 for the Sky (4-6). Williams scored all 10 of her points in the second half and Kamilla Cardoso had 10 points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n

Diamond Miller and Brittney Griner each scored 16 points for the Sun (2-10), who dropped to 1-7 on the road this season. Rivers added 14 points, and Aneesah Morrow had 17 rebounds to go with eight points.<\/p>\n

The Sky were held to 11 points in the first quarter before scoring 32 points in the second to pull within 45-43 at halftime.<\/p>\n

Cloud scored five straight points, including a 3-pointer with 1:37 left in the third to make it 63-56. Cloud made her second 3-pointer with 3:37 left in the fourth for a 77-72 lead.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The Sun return home to play the New York Liberty on Monday.<\/p>\n

The Sky travel to play the Toronto Tempo on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skylar Diggins scored 18 of her 24 points in the first half, Elizabeth Williams made two key baskets…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":847627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1497,2472,7900,5386,1818,30231,39496,22795,3357],"class_list":["post-847626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-sky","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-elizabeth-williams","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-skylar-diggins","tag-wintrust-arena","tag-wnba-basketball","tag-womens-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116701079128368866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847626","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=847626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}