It’s official: the Indiana Fever are heading to the WNBA playoffs for the first time since 2016.
Despite not playing a game on Tuesday, September 3, the Fever booked their tickets to the postseason after both the Chicago Sky and the Atlanta Dream lost their games to the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury, respectively.
The Fever are 17-16 on the season heading into Tuesday’s slate of games, having won six of their last seven outings. Meanwhile, Angel Reese and the Sky dropped to 11-22 after losing their seventh straight game, though they remain at No. 8 in the WNBA standings.
Atlanta is just behind Chicago at No. 9 with an 11-22 record as well.
Indiana has seven games remaining on the season, so the worst they could finish is 17-23. Meanwhile, the best that both Chicago and Atlanta could do is 18-23.
Since both the Sky and Dream still have one game against each other this season, it means only one of them can make it past the postseason and the Fever won’t finish lower than the eighth seed by virtue of having the head-to-head tie-breaker against the two squads.
Caitlin Clark and Co. are 3-1 against the Sky for the season and 3-0 so far against the Dream.
