Fever Host Aces for Back-to-Back Matchups Beginning Wednesday

Sport Preview: Fever Host Aces for Again-to-Again Matchups Starting Wednesday

Indiana Fever vs. Las Vegas Aces
Wednesday, Sept. 11
Gainbridge Fieldhouse | 7:00 p.m. ET
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Broadcast Data
MeTV Indianapolis

Possible Starters

Indiana Fever (19-17)

Guard – Kelsey Mitchell (19.1 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 1.9 apg)
Guard – Caitlin Clark (19.2 ppg, 5.8 rpg, 8.5 apg)
Guard – Lexie Hull (5.6 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 1.0 apg)
Middle – Aliyah Boston (14.3 ppg, 9.1 rpg, 3.1 apg)
Ahead – NaLyssa Smith (10.7 ppg, 7.3 rpg, 1.1 apg)

Las Vegas Aces (22-13)

Guard – Kelsey Plum (18.1 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 4.4 apg)
Guard – Chelsea Grey (7.8 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 5.0 apg)
Guard – Jackie Younger (16.2 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 5.3 apg)
Middle – A’ja Wilson (27.3 ppg, 11.9 rpg, 2.7 bpg)
Middle – Megan Gustafson (3.2 ppg, 1.9 rpg, 0.3 spg)

Sport Standing Report

Indiana: No accidents.

Las Vegas: No accidents.

GAME PREVIEW:

After ending the primary three video games of a six-game homestand with a 2-1 document, the Indiana Fever return with back-to-back matchups towards the Las Vegas Aces on Wednesday and Friday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. If the Fever safe a win towards the Aces this week, it will mark solely the second time in franchise historical past Indiana has received not less than one sport towards all league opponents in a single season since 2010.

The back-to-back WNBA champions took the primary two matchups this season towards the Fever, most not too long ago on July 2 ending in an 88-69 determination at T-Cellular Area. Throughout the first assembly of the season again on Could 25, Aliyah Boston, Lexie Hull, Kelsey Mitchell and Temi Fagbenle all scored in double figures regardless of the 99-80 loss.

Because the Olympic break, Hull leads the WNBA in 3-point capturing share averaging 69.7 p.c (23-of-33) from 3-point vary and has shot 6-of-7 within the final two video games. In each matchups with Indiana, Aces middle A’ja Wilson recorded not less than 28 factors and 9 rebounds, however not too long ago suffered an ankle harm in the course of the Aces’ sport with the Connecticut Solar on Friday. Since coming back from Olympic break, Wilson, Mitchell and Caitlin Clark have been the highest three within the WNBA in factors per sport coming into Wednesday night time, all averaging not less than 24.7 factors per sport.

Throughout Indiana’s two most up-to-date video games, Boston, Clark and Mitchell all scored not less than 20 factors to develop into simply the third trio in WNBA historical past to document two-consecutive 20-point video games. The opposite two trios sit on the visiting crew bench in Wilson with Aces guards Kelsey Plum and Chelsea Grey, after which Wilson, Plum and Aces guard Jackie Younger.

Clark, who earned WNBA Japanese Convention Participant of the Week honors yesterday for the third-consecutive week, continues to guide the league in assists, averaging 8.5 assists per sport. She can also be ranked eighth total within the league’s scoring rankings. Clark enters Wednesday with 306 assists and is simply 11 assists shy of breaking Alyssa Thomas’s single-season help document of 316 in 2023.

On Sunday, the New York Liberty snapped the Aces’ four-game successful streak in a 75-71 determination. Wilson didn’t play, however Plum scored a game-high 25 factors with six assists and three rebounds. Solely two different Aces gamers scored in double figures, with guard Younger and ahead Alysha Clark scoring 12 and 11 factors every. On August 30, the Aces clinched a spot within the 2024 WNBA Playoffs after its 83-72 win towards the Atlanta Dream.

Indiana and Las Vegas each have solidified their place as two of the most effective offensive items within the WNBA. The Fever and Aces each sit within the prime 5 in scoring amongst all groups with the Aces averaging 86.4 factors per sport and the Fever averaging 84.7 factors per sport. The groups are tied in fourth place for assists, each averaging 20.4 assists per sport. Indiana shoots a mean of 45.5 p.c from the sector whereas Las Vegas trails, capturing 45.2 p.c from the sector. Indiana has totaled the fourth most 3-point subject objectives made on the season with 328 as Las Vegas trails with 323 made pictures from past the arc.