{"id":98770,"date":"2025-07-28T07:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98770\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:13:09","slug":"seattle-visits-connecticut-following-charles-24-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98770\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle visits Connecticut following Charles&#8217; 24-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/seattle-storm-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Storm<\/a> (15-11, 9-6 Western Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/connecticut-sun-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut Sun<\/a> (4-20, 2-7 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Uncasville, Connecticut; Monday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Connecticut Sun takes on the Seattle Storm after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/tina-charles-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tina Charles<\/a> scored 24 points in the Connecticut Sun&#8217;s 95-64 win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/golden-state-valkyries-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Valkyries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Sun are 3-9 on their home court. Connecticut ranks sixth in the Eastern Conference in rebounding averaging 31.1 rebounds. Charles paces the Sun with 5.8 boards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Storm have gone 7-6 away from home. Seattle is fifth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> with 20.8 assists per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/skylar-diggins-smith-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Skylar Diggins<\/a> averaging 5.6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Connecticut is shooting 40.4% from the field this season, 2.6 percentage points lower than the 43.0% Seattle allows to opponents. Seattle averages 7.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.4 fewer made shots on average than the 8.7 per game Connecticut gives up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Storm won the last meeting 79-65 on July 12, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/gabby-williams-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabby Williams<\/a> scoring 18 points in the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Charles is scoring 16.3 points per game with 5.8 rebounds and 1.7 assists for the Sun. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/bria-hartley-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bria Hartley<\/a> is averaging 12.4 points and 3.2 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/nneka-ogwumike-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nneka Ogwumike<\/a> is averaging 17.1 points and 7.2 rebounds for the Storm. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/erica-wheeler-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erica Wheeler<\/a> is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Sun: 2-8, averaging 77.5 points, 31.9 rebounds, 16.6 assists, 8.1 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 41.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.4 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Storm: 5-5, averaging 73.0 points, 31.9 rebounds, 18.0 assists, 8.7 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 39.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.6 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">INJURIES: Sun: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Storm: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/katie-lou-samuelson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Lou Samuelson<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Seattle Storm (15-11, 9-6 Western Conference) at Connecticut Sun (4-20, 2-7 Eastern Conference) Uncasville, Connecticut; Monday,&hellip;\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-98770","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\/114929625080932377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98770","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=98770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98770\/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=98770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}