WASHINGTON MYTSICS
ALL-TIME SERIES
RECORD STREAK LAST WIN LAST LOSS
OVERALL 36-37 LOST ONE AUG. 28, 2021 (76-75) MAY 13, 2022 (94-86)
HOME 20-19 LOST ONE AUG. 28, 2021 (76-75) MAY 13, 2022 (94-86)
AWAY 16-18 LOST TWO AUG. 31, 2019 (91-85) JUN. 26, 2021 (85-74)
SERIES NOTES
• Dallas has won the season series in back-to-back seasons (2020-20221).
• Washington last won the season series against Dallas in 2019, sweeping the Wings for the only time since the franchise’s relocation to Dallas in 2016.
• Dallas’ Arike Ogunbowale scored a game-high 27 points on 5/13 at Washington, marking the eighth time she has scored 20+ points against the Mystics since the 2019 season. Since joining the Mystics, Delle Donne has scored 20+ points against Dallas five times
PREVIOUS MEETINGSWASHINGTON 79 – CHICAGO 69
May 13, 2022
Mystics 86, Wings 94
Arike Ogunbowale scored 27 points, Allisha Gray had 21 and the Dallas Wings overcame a 15-point second-quarter deficit to beat the Washington Mystics 94-86 on Friday night. Ogunbowale took over after Dallas (1-1) fell behind 38-23 with 3:34 remaining in the second quarter. She hit three straight 3-pointers in a minute second span, scoring 14 of her 18 points in the quarter from there to pull the Wings to 44-41 at halftime. Gray tied it with a 3-pointer 20 seconds into the third period, accounting for 12 points to help the Wings take a 66-55 lead into the fourth. The Mystics (3-1) got no closer than six points in the final quarter. Elena Delle Donne led Washington with 20 points, and Ariel Atkins had 19. Alysha Clark started for the Mystics. Clark, who had not played competitive basketball since March 2021 when she suffered a Lisfranc injury while playing in France, finished with nine points and four rebounds in 20 minutes. Isabelle Harrison added 15 points and 10 rebounds for Dallas.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR IN 2022
Team
• Washington looks to make the playoffs for the ninth time under Head Coach Mike Thibault’s tutelage. Since Thibault has been at the helm (2013), the Mystics have not reached the postseason only twice (2016, 2021).
• Head Coach Mike Thibault (360) looks to reach 375 career wins. Thibault is the winningest coach in WNBA history and has totaled 154 wins with the franchise.
• The 2022 WNBA season marks the 25th Anniversary for the Washington Mystics. Chartered in 1997, the Mystics are one of the first WNBA expansion franchises to be established and the longest tenured continuously operating women’s professional sports team in Washington, D.C.
• Washington will appear on national TV (ABC, CBSSN, ESPN2, ESPN3, NBATV) 18 times this season.
• Washington has nine afternoon games this season, with five of the nine games having a 3:00 p.m. tip-time.
• Washington looks to total at least 20 wins. Since 2018, Washington, Connecticut, Las Vegas and Seattle are the only teams to
have multiple 20-plus win seasons.
• The Mystics look to attempt 20+ three-pointers per game for the sixth-consecutive season. Last season, Washington attempted a franchise-high 27.4 three-pointers per game.
• Washington will look to build upon their three-pointers made per game (9.0) and three-point field goal percentage (.130) which both rank second in franchise history only behind the 2019 season.
• The Mystics will look to dish out 18+ assists per game for the fourth-consecutive season. Washington is one-of-five teams in the league who have compiled three-straight 18+ assist per game seasons.
• Washington looks to average 80 or more points per game for the sixth time over the last seven seasons. Elena Delle Donne
• Elena Delle Donne looks to finish top-five in points for the sixth time since the 2015 season. Delle Donne ranked second in points (19.5) during the 2019 season.
• Delle Donne looks to shoot at least .500 percent from the field and .400 percent from three-point range (min. 3 PTA per game) for the second time in her career after doing so during the 2019 campaign.
• For the fourth time in her career, Delle Donne will look to total at least 500 points and 200 rebounds in a single season.
• Delle Donne (1,799) needs 201 points to become the sixth player in franchise history to score 2,000 points.
Natasha Cloud
• Natasha Cloud looks to build upon her career-best and franchise record 6.4 assists per game recorded last season.
• Cloud looks to total 150 or more assists for the third consecutive season. Cloud’s 189 assists in 2019 were the most recorded in a single season in franchise history and her 790 career assists rank as the most in franchise history.
• Cloud looks to average 5.0 assists per game for the third-consecutive season. Cloud could become the only player in franchise history to average five-plus assists in three or more seasons (min. 20 GP).
Ariel Atkins
• Ariel Atkins looks to continue to improve her scoring average for the third consecutive season, after averaging a career-best 16.2 points per game.
• Atkins (1,546) could become the sixth player in franchise history to eclipse 2,000 career points with the franchise.
• Atkins (183) looks to record her 200th career steal this season, becoming only the seventh player in franchise history to do so.
• Atkins looks to notch 40+ steals for a fourth-straight season. Atkins is the only player in the league to tally 40+ steals in threeconsecutive seasons (2019-21).
Myisha Hines-Allen
• Myisha Hines-Allen looks to average at least 12.0 points and 7.0 rebounds per game for the third consecutive season. HinesAllen is one-of-eight players in the WNBA to average 12+ points and 7+ rebounds since 2019.
• Hines-Allen (799) looking to eclipse 1,000 points for her career.
• Hines-Allen (477) looks to haul in her 500th career rebound, becoming the 19th player in franchise history to do so.
Alysha Clark
• Alysha Clark (1,900) looks to record her 2000th career point.
• Clark (932) needs 68 rebounds to record her 1000th career rebound.
• Clark to build upon career-highs in field goal percentage (.558) and three-point percentage (.522) recorded during the 2020 season. Clark has finished with a FG% of .500-or-better four times in her nine-year career.
Tianna Hawkins
• Tianna Hawkins will look to climb the Mystics’ all-time points scored leader board. Hawkins currently ranks 20th in franchise history with 1,149 points in a Mystics uniform.
• Hawkins will look to build on her .472 career field goal percentage with Washington which ranks as the sixth highest in franchise history.
• With four rebounds, Hawkins (611) can surpass Kia Vaughn (614, 2013-16) for the 11th-most rebounds in Mystics history.
GAME RECAP (5/13 vs. DAL)
• Alysha Clark appeared in her first WNBA game since 10/6/20, playing in 20 minutes and amassing nine points, four rebounds and one assist.
• Elena Delle Donne led the team in scoring for the third time this season, recording 20 points on 7-of-13 shooting (4-6 3PT), adding five rebounds and four assists to her stat line. Delle Donne’s 20 points on 5/13 marks her 49th 20+ point game with Washington (third most in franchise history)
• Ariel Atkins tallied 19 points, (6-7 FG; including a 4-of5 (.800) effort from three-point range), marking her ninth consecutive game of 10+ points [dating back to
8/31/21]
• Led by Rui Machida’s seven assists, Washington has now recorded 20+ assists in all four games this season. Washington’s 21.3 assists per game are tied for fourth
in the WNBA
• Washington shot .525 from the field and .520 from three-point range, the first time the Mystics have shot .500 from the field and .500 from three-point territory
since 8/14/2019.
