Game Preview: Fever finishes regular season at home against Wings on Sunday afternoon

Indiana Fever vs. Dallas Wings
Sunday, September 15
Gainbridge Fieldhouse | 3:00 p.m. ET
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Indiana Fever (19-19)

Guard – Kelsey Mitchell (19.3 points, 2.6 rebounds, 1.8 assists)
Defender – Caitlin Clark (19.1 points, 5.8 rebounds, 8.4 assists)
Defender – Lexie Hull (5.6 points, 2.5 rebounds, 1.0 assists)
Center – Aliyah Boston (14.1 points per game, 9.1 rebounds per game, 3.1 assists per game)
Forward – NaLyssa Smith (10.5 points, 7.2 rebounds, 1.1 assists)

Dallas Stars (9-29)

Guard – Arike Ogunbowale (22.1 points per game, 4.6 rebounds per game, 5.1 assists per game)
Guard – Jacy Sheldon (5.5 points, 2.1 rebounds, 2.4 assists)
Center – Teaira McCowan (11.7 points per game, 8.1 rebounds per game, 1.5 assists per game)
Forward – Satou Sabally (16.7 points per game, 6.2 rebounds per game, 4.8 blocks per game)
Forward – Maddy Siegrist (9.6 points per game, 3.4 rebounds per game, 1.0 blocks per game)

Game status report

Indiana: No injuries.

Dallas: Stephanie Soares – OUT (left knee)

GAME PREVIEW:

The Indiana Fever (19-19) will finish their six-game home series against the Dallas Wings on Sunday afternoon, the final regular season home game of the year. Sunday’s game will be Dallas’ only visit to Indiana this season, with the teams tied 1-1 in the regular season series. Indiana will finish its regular season on Thursday night when the team travels to Capital One Arena to face the Washington Mystics.
The Fever enter Sunday afternoon ranked sixth in the 2024 WNBA playoff standings. Indiana hopes to rebound Sunday after suffering two straight losses for the first time since June 23 and 27. A win on Sunday would give the Fever the ninth 20-win regular season in franchise history.

When Indiana and Dallas last met on Sept. 1, both teams had won three straight games until the Fever emerged with a 100-93 victory. Since then, Dallas has lost seven straight games. In the last meeting, Fever player Kelsey Mitchell was the season’s leading scorer with 36 points, six rebounds and three assists, while rookie player Caitlin Clark brought up the rear with 28 points and 12 assists. Mitchell’s 36-point performance was the second-highest point total ever by a Fever player in a regular season game. On Friday, Mitchell set a franchise record for most points scored in a regular season with 733 points through Sunday afternoon. Also on Friday, Clark, who still leads the league in assists with an average of 8.4 assists per game, broke the WNBA single-season assist record of 316 and enters her season with 321 assists on Sunday.

On July 17, before the Olympic break, Indiana lost to Dallas 101-93 in the teams’ first meeting at College Park Center. Despite Aliyah Boston’s game-high 28 points and Clark’s 24 points and a WNBA-record 19 assists, the Wings outlasted Indiana, led by guards Arike Ogunbowale and Odyssey Sims, who contributed 24 points to the win.

Like Indiana, the Wings suffered a close 83-81 loss to the Seattle Storm on Friday. Wings center Teaira McCowan scored a season-high 23 points on 8-of-14 shooting and 15 rebounds, while forward Satou Sabally had 18 points, seven rebounds, six assists and two steals in the loss. Ogunbowale is the league’s second-leading scorer, averaging 22.1 points per game, but she only scored 15 points last time out. Last time out against Indiana, McCowan only scored five points, but Ogunbowale and Sabally scored 24 and 25 points, respectively.

In both Indiana-Dallas games, Clark, Mitchell and NaLyssa Smith have scored at least 13 points. In total points per game, Indiana and Dallas rank third and fourth in the league, averaging 84.2 and 83.6 points per game, respectively. The Fever leads the league in shooting percentage at 45.3 percent, and the Wings are fifth at 44.3 percent. Boston and McCowan rank fourth and fifth in rebounding since the Olympic break, each averaging at least 9.7 rebounds per game.

The final home game of the regular season caps off a record-setting season for Fever fans across the country and at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Through the 38 games of this regular season, Indiana’s combined home and away attendance set a new WNBA season record of 605,358 fans watching the Fever. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, these are the five teams with the most attendance in a single regular season in WNBA history:

1. 2024 – Indiana Fever – 605,358 (Home: 323,441 – Away: 281,917)
2. 1999 – Washington Mystics – 408,059
3. 2024 – New York Liberty – 403,826
4. 1998 – New York Liberty – 401,939
5. 2001 – New York Liberty – 401,092