The Day

CONNECTICU­T SUN VS. DALLAS WINGS

- — Vickie Fulkerson

Location: Mohegan Sun Arena Tip: 7:30 p.m. (ION)

Probable starters: Wings, 6-4 F Monique Billings (15.3 ppg, 8.5 rpg, 2.5 apg), 6-2 F Maddy Siegrist (13.0 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 1.4 apg), 6-7 C Teaira McCowan (13.6 ppg, 8.8 rpg, 1.4 apg), 5-8 G Arike Ogunbowale (28.8 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 4.2 apg, 2.4 spg), 5-10 G Sevgi Uzun (6.0 ppg, 5.8 apg).

Sun, 5-10 G Ty Harris (10.3 ppg, 3.2 apg), 5-11 G DiJonai Carrington (13.2 ppg, 5.7 rpg, 1.7 apg), 6-4 G DeWanna Bonner (20.3 ppg, 4.8 rpg, 2.0 apg, 2.0 spg), 6-2 F Alyssa Thomas (14.5 ppg, 9.0 rpg, 7.8 apg), 6-3 F Brionna Jones (12.3 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 2.3 spg).

Noteworthy: The Sun (6-0) remain as the only unbeaten team in the WNBA, with the franchise’s longest win streak ever to start a season. They believe firmly, however, that they still haven’t played their best basketball. “We’re still working out a lot of kinks, lineups, minute restrictio­ns,” the Sun’s Thomas said. “There’s a lot of room for us to continue to grow . ... For us to start this way when we weren’t even picked to make playoffs, it just speaks volumes to the kind of players we have. We know it’s a long season, so it’s not time for us to get comfortabl­e or feed into that, but just continue to do what we’re doing.” ... The Sun defeated the Phoenix Mercury 70-47 Monday, holding their opponents to their worst single-game field goal percentage in franchise history (15-for-63, .238). The Mercury were 1-for-27 from 3-point range (3.7%) and finished 41 points under their season average . ... Connecticu­t’s last meeting with Dallas came on Aug. 18, 2023, a 95-75 win for Dallas at Mohegan Sun . ... The Wings (3-2), in the midst of a five-game road trip, are coming off an 84-83 victory over Los Angeles on Sunday. Ogunbowale, the league’s leading scorer, paced Dallas with 20 points, four rebounds and four assists.

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