The Dallas Wings will look to turn their two most impressive wins of the season into a final-minute push for the playoffs when they host the rising Minnesota Lynx in Arlington, Texas on Friday.
The Wings (8-22) are looking for their third win of the season after beating two-time defending league champion Las Vegas 93-90 on Tuesday. Satou Sabally led Dallas with 28 points in the win and helped the Wings overcome a 42-point performance from the Aces’ A’ja Wilson.
Tuesday’s win came after Dallas came back from 19 points down in the fourth quarter to beat Los Angeles on Sunday.
Dallas trailed by one point with 46.5 seconds left in the game on Tuesday, but late free throws by Sabally and Arike Ogunbowale gave the Wings the win. Natasha Howard added 24 points and Ogunbowale scored 20 for Dallas, while Teaira McCowan grabbed 17 rebounds.
The Wings are 11th in the 12-team league, three games behind eighth-place Chicago and three spots below the playoff line.
“We were in the semifinals last year for a reason, and I don’t want people to forget that,” Sabally said after Tuesday’s game.
The Lynx (23-8) have won seven consecutive games, are second in the league standings (2 1/2 games behind New York) and have clinched a playoff spot with nine games remaining.
Minnesota’s most recent win came on Wednesday, an 89-76 rout at Phoenix, as Kayla McBride scored 19 points, Courtney Williams added 16, Napheesa Collier had 12 points and eight rebounds and Myisha Hines-Allen scored 11 points off the bench.
The Lynx, who are the WNBA’s top 3-point shooting team at 39.2 percent, made 11 shots from beyond the arc. They have won all six games by double digits since the league resumed after the All-Star and Olympic breaks.
“It feels good. But we’re playing for something bigger than just a winning streak,” McBride said after Wednesday’s win. “We wanted to get on the field for our Olympians that were coming back. It’s just a desire to be ready to play every night. We’re playing for each other.”
The Lynx have won two of the first three games with Dallas this season, but the Wings won the most recent contest, 94-88, in Arlington on June 27.
–Field Level Media
