Standout rookie Caitlin Clark will make her first appearance in the WNBA playoffs in the same arena where she started her professional career.
Clark’s Indiana Fever will visit the Connecticut Sun as the 12-team league’s eight-team postseason gets underway Sunday, when all four best-of-three series tip off. The Las Vegas Aces begin in earnest their quest for a third straight WNBA title by hosting the Seattle Storm, the top-seeded New York Liberty will host the Atlanta Dream and the Minnesota Lynx will host the Phoenix Mercury.
The Indiana-Connecticut matchup will be televised by ABC, with the other three series openers on ESPN.
Clark, a 6-foot guard who had a record-breaking rookie season after being taken with the No. 1 pick of April’s draft, helped lead the Fever to their first playoff berth since a first-round exit in 2016. Now the former Iowa Hawkeyes star and all-time leading scorer for NCAA Division I basketball will try to lead Indiana to its first playoff win since 2015, when current Sun coach Stephanie White was in charge of the Fever.
This is the third straight postseason the league will use a best-of-three format with the better-seeded team hosting the first two games. A third game, if necessary, would be played at the home of the lower-seeded team.