After taking down one of the WNBA’s top teams earlier this week, the Indiana Fever will face a squad at the bottom of the standings when they stay on the road to play the Dallas Wings on Wednesday at Arlington, Texas.
The Fever won 81-74 at the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday by using a balanced scoring attack and finishing with a flourish. Kelsey Mitchell scored a team-best 21 points as Indiana outscored Minnesota 28-14 in the fourth quarter.
Aliyah Boston paired 17 points with 16 rebounds for the Fever, while Caitlin Clark bundled her 17 points with a team-high six assists.
Indiana improved to 5-9 on the road amid an environment that felt more like home due, in part, to the game being a relatively short drive from Clark’s home state of Iowa.
Indiana (11-14) has won eight of its last 12 games after a 3-10 start. Now comes a chance to win consecutive road games for the first time this season.
The Wings have already done so, winning two straight away from Arlington in late May to improve to 3-2.
Not much has gone right since.
The Wings (5-19) are just 2-17 since May 26 and are on a three-game skid following their 87-81 home setback on Saturday against the Los Angeles Sparks.
Odyssey Sims scored 23 points in the loss, while Natasha Howard tallied 14 points and grabbed a team-high seven rebounds.
Dallas led 63-61 after three quarters against Los Angeles but was outscored 26-18 in the fourth. The Wings shot 35 percent from the floor in the final period, while the Sparks shot 60 percent.
In eight games (six starts) since signing a hardship contract with Dallas on June 25, Sims has averaged 16.4 points with 5.1 assists.
