The New York Liberty will face the Indiana Fever on Tuesday night in a marquee WNBA matchup. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.
Caitlin Clark picked up her eighth technical of the season on Saturday, which would have triggered a one-game suspension, but league officials quickly rescinded it, allowing her to play.
The Liberty have won four straight games and seven of their last eight, thanks to strong play from their top three players: Breanna Stewart, Jonquel Jones, and Sabrina Ionescu. The trio has been taking turns leading the team, bumping them up to seventh place in the standings — just two games behind third-place Las Vegas.
The Liberty are coming off a 40-point win over the defending champion Aces on Sunday. The Aces rested stars A'ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray, and Jackie Young, as it was the second half of a brutal back-to-back for Las Vegas.
"It doesn't matter who's playing on the other side, we understand we needed to win," Ionescu said. "It doesn't matter, we wanted to go out. We wanted to execute, we wanted to play our brand of basketball, knowing every game is important and this game isn't going to have an asterisk by it because those players didn't play. It's going to show up as a win or a loss."
New York lost by 20 to Indiana just before its current hot streak, so the Liberty would love to get some revenge.
Minnesota held onto the top spot in the power poll this week, although the Lynx weren't unanimous. No. 2 Golden State received two votes and third-ranked Washington got one. Las Vegas, Indiana, and New York were next. Atlanta, Dallas, and Chicago followed the Liberty. Portland was 10th and Los Angeles 11th. Phoenix, Connecticut, Toronto, and Seattle rounded out the poll.
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert sent a memo to all teams on Friday afternoon, stating that there will be a meeting this week to continue discussions around transgender athletes in women's basketball.