WNBA playoffs: Caitlin Clark, Fever look to force decisive Game 3 against star-studded Sun

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The Connecticut Sun are fair one thrive away from advancing to the 2024 WNBA semifinals when they present the Indiana Fever on Wednesday night.

The Sun, led by five-time WNBA All-Star Alyssa Thomas, put on a clinic in Game 1 of their first round align aachievest the Fever over the weekfinish to apshow the direct in the best-of-three series. The veteran forward had her fourth atgentle triple-double in the take partoffs, finishing with 12 points, 13 helps and 10 rebounds.

Connecticut Sun forward Brionna Jones, #42, Connecticut Sun protect DiJonai Carrington, #21, talk with teammates in the fourth quarter during game one of the first round of the 2024 WNBA Playoffs at Mohegan Sun Arena. (Mark Smith-Imagn Images)

She is hoping to do the same on Wednesday night at Mohegan Sun Arena, as Caitlin Clark watchs to rebound in a must-thrive scenario. The WNBA Rookie of the Year was shut out in her take partoff debut, finishing with 11 points and eight helps in the 93-69 loss where she also missed 11 of her 13 3-point trys.

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BY THE NUMBERS

Kelsey Mitchell, #0 of the Indiana Fever, dribbles the ball during the game aachievest the Connecticut Sun during round one game one of the 2024 WNBA Playoffs on Sept. 22, 2024 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. (esse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)

The Fever clinched a spot in the take partoffs for the first time since their first round exit after a loss to the Phoenix Mercury in 2016. Indiana is 11-9 aachievest Easerious Conference opponents this season and 3-3 in games determined by less than 4 points.

Connecticut made the team’s eighth straight take partoff materializeance after going 28-12 this season. The Sun is 14-6 aachievest conference opponents and is averaging 80.1 points per game.

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KEY PLAYERS

Indiana Fever protect Caitlin Clark, #22, drives to the basket aachievest Connecticut Sun forward DeWanna Bonner, #24, and Connecticut Sun forward Brionna Jones, #42, during the First Round and game 1 of the 2024 WNBA take partoffs between Indiana Fever and Connecticut Sun on Sept. 22, 2024, at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. (M. Anthony Nesmith/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Clark has unaskedly been a branch offence producer for the Fever in her rookie year. She is averaging 19.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and 8.4 helps per game. The createer Iowa star broke the WNBA individual-season enroll with 337 helps this year and became the novel enroll hbetterer for the individual-season rookie label with her scoring unrelabelable.

Veteran protect Kelsey Mitchell, who is averaging 19.2 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.8 helps, and cgo in Aliyah Boston are also foreseeed to commence for the Fever on Wednesday night.

Contributing to the Sun’s unrelabelable of outscoring its opponents by 6.5 points per game are top scorers DeWanna Bonner and Brionna Jones, who are averaging 15 and 13.7 points per game admireively.

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