MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Former TCU star and Minnesota Lynx rookie Olivia Miles had 24 points, seven rebounds, and six assists; Kayla McBride added 22 points. The Minnesota Lynx used a big first half to cruise past the Dallas Wings 100-76 on Tuesday night for their eighth straight victory.<\/p>\n
Natasha Howard scored 21 points, and Courtney Williams added 16 for Minnesota (10-2), which became the first WNBA team to reach 10 wins this season. McBride made four of Minnesota\u2019s seven 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
Paige Bueckers led Dallas (7-4) with 23 points. Arike Ogunbowale added 16 points, and Jessica Shepard had 12 points and nine rebounds. Azzi Fudd, the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, finished with six points on 2-of-12 shooting.<\/p>\n
Four of Minnesota\u2019s starters reached double-figure scoring by halftime. Howard and Miles each had 14 points, and McBride and Williams each added 12 to help the Lynx lead 58-38.<\/p>\n
Minnesota made 23 of 32 (72%) field goals in the first half, including 6 of 8 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
The Lynx led 75-60 entering the fourth, with 71 points coming from their starters. Williams made a basket with 30.7 seconds left to put Minnesota at the 100-point mark for the third time this season.<\/p>\n
The teams combined to make 26 straight free throws before a miss with 56.8 seconds left in the fourth.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/strong><\/p>\n Phoenix Mercury (4-9, 3-5 Western Conference) at Dallas Wings (7-4, 3-2 Western Conference) in Arlington, Texas; Thursday, 8 p.m. CST<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix Mercury visits the Dallas Wings after Alyssa Thomas scored 22 points in the Mercury\u2019s 87-81 loss to the Golden State Valkyries.<\/p>\n Dallas leads the Western Conference with 12.1 fast break points. Phoenix is 3-6 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n Dallas is shooting 45.2% from the field this season, 0.6 percentage points lower than the 45.8% Phoenix allows to opponents. Phoenix averages 7.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.8 more makes per game than Dallas allows.<\/p>\n The teams square off Thursday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Paige Bueckers is averaging 18.7 points and 5.8 assists for the Wings. Arike Ogunbowale is averaging 14.9 points and 3.2 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Thomas is averaging 15.6 points, 7.1 rebounds, 7.7 assists and 1.8 steals for the Mercury. Jovana Nogic is averaging 10.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Wings: 6-4, averaging 86.3 points, 33.8 rebounds, 22.9 assists, 6.9 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 44.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 82.6 points per game.<\/p>\n Mercury: 3-7, averaging 79.9 points, 32.1 rebounds, 17.5 assists, 8.0 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 40.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.7 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Wings: Odyssey Sims: day to day (ankle), Awak Kuier: out (wrist).<\/p>\n Mercury: Sami Whitcomb: out (knee).<\/p>\n Minnesota plays at Las Vegas on Saturday.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Former TCU star and Minnesota Lynx rookie Olivia Miles had 24 points, seven rebounds, and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":857366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,2470,3663,10077,358,3187,23320,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,232],"class_list":["post-857365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-wings","tag-minnesota","tag-tcu","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-uconn","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116725635229438824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857365","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=857365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}