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Fever beat Dream in Indianapolis, sends series back to Atlanta

AP photo by Michael Conroy / Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell drives as Rhyne Howard defends for the Atlanta Dream during Tuesday night's game in Indianapolis. The Fever earned a wire-to-wire win, 77-60, and forced a decisive matchup in the best-of-three series in the first round of the WNBA playoffs. Atlanta, which won Sunday's opener 80-68 at home, will also host the third game Thursday night.
AP photo by Michael Conroy / Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell drives as Rhyne Howard defends for the Atlanta Dream during Tuesday night's game in Indianapolis. The Fever earned a wire-to-wire win, 77-60, and forced a decisive matchup in the best-of-three series in the first round of the WNBA playoffs. Atlanta, which won Sunday's opener 80-68 at home, will also host the third game Thursday night. AP photo by Michael Conroy / Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell drives as Rhyne Howard defends for the Atlanta Dream during Tuesday night's game in Indianapolis. The Fever earned a wire-to-wire win, 77-60, and forced a decisive matchup in the best-of-three series in the first round of the WNBA playoffs. Atlanta, which won Sunday's opener 80-68 at home, will also host the third game Thursday night.

By The Associated Press 2 min read

INDIANAPOLIS — Kelsey Mitchell scored 19 points, including four 3-pointers, and Aliyah Boston added 15 to lead the sixth-seeded Indiana Fever past the third-seeded Atlanta Dream 77-60 on Tuesday night and extend their best-of-three series in the first round of the WNBA playoffs.

Thursday night’s decisive third game will be hosted by Atlanta, which hasn’t won a playoff series since 2016. Indiana’s most recent playoff series win was the year before that.

Natasha Howard added 12 points and five rebounds for Indiana, Mitchell also had four assists, and Boston finished with five rebounds and three assists.

Te-Hina Paopao scored 11 points off the bench to lead the Dream in defeat, and former Bradley Central High School standout Rhyne Howard added 10. The Dream, coming off an 80-68 home win Sunday in the series opener, fell 25 points short of their regular-season scoring average in the loss at Indiana.

Allisha Gray added nine points and seven rebounds for Atlanta despite playing through foul trouble and clashing briefly with two fans in the front row midway through the fourth quarter; both fans were escorted out of the arena by security.