Phoenix Mercury @ Minnesota Lynx
WNBA SEMIFINALS - GAME 1 • MIN leads series 1-0
16-18, 5-12 Away
95
16-18, 5-12 Away
28-6, 15-2 Home
113
28-6, 15-2 Home
Game Leaders
Team Stats
54% (38-71)
Field Goal %
64% (46-72)
57% (8-14)
Three Point %
50% (6-12)
69% (11-16)
Free Throw %
68% (15-22)
10
Turnovers
13
20
Rebounds
38
6
Largest Lead
25
Game Information
Minneapolis, MN
ESPN2
Referee:Tiffany Bird
Referee:Eric Brewton
Referee:Roy Gulbeyan
David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images
Game Flow
--PHX
--MIN
Shot Chart
- Brittney Griner makes layup (Penny Taylor assists)
- Maya Moore makes 18-foot two point shot
- Candice Dupree makes 16-foot two point shot
- Maya Moore makes two point shot (Seimone Augustus assists)
- Maya Moore makes two point shot
- Candice Dupree misses
- Diana Taurasi makes two point shot
- Maya Moore misses 18-foot jumper
- Diana Taurasi makes 23-foot three point jumper (Brittney Griner assists)
- Candice Dupree makes layup (Penny Taylor assists)
- Sylvia Fowles misses 6-foot two point shot
- Penny Taylor misses 14-foot jumper
- Lindsay Whalen makes 18-foot two point shot (Seimone Augustus assists)
- Diana Taurasi makes 25-foot three point jumper (Candice Dupree assists)
- Seimone Augustus makes 20-foot jumper (Lindsay Whalen assists)
- Brittney Griner misses 3-foot jumper
- Lindsay Whalen makes 14-foot two point shot
- Diana Taurasi misses three point jumper
- Maya Moore misses 23-foot three point jumper
- Maya Moore misses 23-foot three point jumper
- Candice Dupree makes 12-foot jumper (DeWanna Bonner assists)
- Lindsay Whalen misses 18-foot jumper
- Jia Perkins misses 19-foot jumper
- Anna Cruz makes 23-foot three point jumper (Jia Perkins assists)
- Rebekkah Brunson makes 17-foot jumper (Jia Perkins assists)
- Diana Taurasi makes 23-foot three point jumper
- Sylvia Fowles makes free throw 1 of 2
- Sylvia Fowles makes free throw 2 of 2
- DeWanna Bonner misses 13-foot jumper
- Jia Perkins misses driving layup
- Sonja Petrovic misses 18-foot jumper
- Renee Montgomery makes 23-foot three point jumper (Jia Perkins assists)
- Lindsey Harding misses 10-foot
- Sylvia Fowles makes two point shot (Renee Montgomery assists)
- Penny Taylor makes free throw 1 of 2
- Penny Taylor makes free throw 2 of 2
- Jia Perkins misses 23-foot three point jumper
- DeWanna Bonner makes driving layup
- Renee Montgomery misses layup
- Sylvia Fowles makes free throw 1 of 2
- Sylvia Fowles misses free throw 2 of 2
- DeWanna Bonner makes layup (Candice Dupree assists)
- Seimone Augustus makes 18-foot two point shot
- DeWanna Bonner misses 24-foot three point jumper
- Lindsay Whalen makes two point shot (Seimone Augustus assists)
- Seimone Augustus makes 19-foot two point shot
- Candice Dupree misses 17-foot two point jumper
- Lindsay Whalen makes layup
- Diana Taurasi misses 19-foot jumper
- Natasha Howard makes layup (Lindsay Whalen assists)
- DeWanna Bonner misses 19-foot jumper
- Seimone Augustus misses 16-foot jumper
- Maya Moore makes jumper (Seimone Augustus assists)
- Lindsey Harding misses 19-foot jumper
- Natasha Howard makes layup (Maya Moore assists)
- Brittney Griner makes layup (Sonja Petrovic assists)
- Maya Moore makes free throw 1 of 2
- Maya Moore makes free throw 2 of 2
- Diana Taurasi misses 16-foot jumper
- Maya Moore makes driving layup
- Diana Taurasi makes 4-foot jumper (Candice Dupree assists)
- Diana Taurasi makes 15-foot jumper (Sonja Petrovic assists)
- Maya Moore makes two point shot (Seimone Augustus assists)
- Renee Montgomery misses 17-foot jumper
- Candice Dupree misses layup
- Rebekkah Brunson makes 17-foot jumper (Anna Cruz assists)
- Diana Taurasi misses 23-foot three point jumper
- Brittney Griner misses free throw 1 of 2
- Brittney Griner makes free throw 2 of 2
- Maya Moore makes 23-foot three pointer (Renee Montgomery assists)
- Penny Taylor misses 23-foot three point jumper
- Marta Xargay makes two point shot
- Maya Moore misses 23-foot three point jumper
- Penny Taylor makes driving layup
- Maya Moore misses 13-foot jumper
- Maya Moore makes two point shot
- Penny Taylor misses layup
- Renee Montgomery makes 17-foot jumper (Jia Perkins assists)
- Renee Montgomery makes free throw 1 of 1
- Brittney Griner makes layup (Marta Xargay assists)
- Anna Cruz misses 13-foot jumper
- Maya Moore misses 2-foot
- Rebekkah Brunson misses 17-foot jumper
- Sylvia Fowles makes two point shot
- Diana Taurasi makes free throw 1 of 2
- Diana Taurasi makes free throw 2 of 2
- Maya Moore misses 10-foot two point shot
- Marta Xargay makes 24-foot three point jumper (Diana Taurasi assists)
- Maya Moore makes 7-foot jumper
- Maya Moore makes free throw 1 of 1
- Brittney Griner makes layup (Marta Xargay assists)
- Lindsay Whalen makes driving layup
- Lindsay Whalen makes free throw 1 of 1
- Diana Taurasi makes 15-foot jumper (Candice Dupree assists)
- Rebekkah Brunson makes layup (Seimone Augustus assists)
- Brittney Griner makes driving layup (Diana Taurasi assists)
- Brittney Griner makes free throw 1 of 1
- Natasha Howard makes layup (Lindsay Whalen assists)
- Lindsay Whalen makes layup (Seimone Augustus assists)
- Diana Taurasi makes 12-foot jumper (Candice Dupree assists)
- Diana Taurasi makes free throw 1 of 1
- Natasha Howard makes two point shot
- Penny Taylor misses jumper
- Maya Moore makes 23-foot three point jumper (Lindsay Whalen assists)
- Diana Taurasi misses 23-foot three point jumper
- Lindsay Whalen misses 14-foot two point jumper
- DeWanna Bonner makes layup
- Maya Moore makes 16-foot two point shot (Lindsay Whalen assists)
- Lindsay Whalen makes layup (Maya Moore assists)
- Brittney Griner makes layup (Diana Taurasi assists)
- Seimone Augustus makes 23-foot three point jumper (Rebekkah Brunson assists)
- Mistie Bass makes free throw 1 of 2
- Mistie Bass makes free throw 2 of 2
- Sylvia Fowles makes layup (Rebekkah Brunson assists)
- Sylvia Fowles makes free throw 1 of 1
- Marta Xargay makes 23-foot three point jumper (Diana Taurasi assists)
- Sonja Petrovic misses driving layup
- Renee Montgomery makes 23-foot three point jumper
- Diana Taurasi makes 25-foot three point jumper (Brittney Griner assists)
- Anna Cruz makes driving layup
- Brittney Griner makes jumper (Marta Xargay assists)
- Rebekkah Brunson makes jumper (Anna Cruz assists)
- Marta Xargay misses 17-foot jumper
- Anna Cruz misses 10-foot jump bank shot
- Kelsey Bone makes two point shot (Lindsey Harding assists)
- Marta Xargay misses 22-foot two point jumper
- Sonja Petrovic makes 24-foot three point jumper (Lindsey Harding assists)
- Mistie Bass makes layup (Marta Xargay assists)
- Seimone Augustus misses free throw 1 of 2
- Seimone Augustus makes free throw 2 of 2
- Marta Xargay makes 19-foot jumper (Lindsey Harding assists)
- Seimone Augustus misses 22-foot three point jumper
- Sylvia Fowles makes layup (Lindsay Whalen assists)
- Sonja Petrovic misses 23-foot three point jumper
- Lindsey Harding makes jumper (Sonja Petrovic assists)
- Sonja Petrovic misses technical free throw
- Lindsay Whalen makes layup (Natasha Howard assists)
- Lindsey Harding makes driving layup
- Lindsay Whalen misses 6-foot jumper
- Isabelle Harrison misses free throw 1 of 2
- Isabelle Harrison misses free throw 2 of 2
- Rebekkah Brunson misses free throw 1 of 2
- Rebekkah Brunson makes free throw 2 of 2
- Sonja Petrovic makes driving layup
- Sonja Petrovic misses free throw 1 of 1
- Sylvia Fowles misses 11-foot jump bank shot
- Mistie Bass misses 15-foot jumper
- Sonja Petrovic misses driving layup
- Isabelle Harrison makes two point shot
- Maya Moore makes free throw 1 of 2
- Maya Moore makes free throw 2 of 2
- Mistie Bass makes layup (Lindsey Harding assists)
- Sylvia Fowles makes free throw 1 of 2
- Sylvia Fowles makes free throw 2 of 2
- Marta Xargay misses driving layup
- Sylvia Fowles makes layup (Renee Montgomery assists)
- DeWanna Bonner misses 20-foot jumper
- Sonja Petrovic misses 16-foot jumper
- Renee Montgomery makes driving layup
- Sonja Petrovic makes 25-foot three point jumper (Lindsey Harding assists)
- Maya Moore makes layup (Lindsay Whalen assists)
- Lindsey Harding misses 8-foot two point jumper
- Lindsay Whalen makes driving layup
- Isabelle Harrison misses driving layup
- Natasha Howard misses free throw 1 of 2
- Natasha Howard misses free throw 2 of 2
- Keisha Hampton makes jumper (Rebekkah Brunson assists)
- DeWanna Bonner makes free throw 1 of 2
- DeWanna Bonner makes free throw 2 of 2
- Natasha Howard makes layup (Rebekkah Brunson assists)
- Lindsey Harding makes 21-foot jumper (Sonja Petrovic assists)
- Keisha Hampton misses 23-foot three point jumper
- DeWanna Bonner misses 13-foot two point jumper
- Natasha Howard misses free throw 1 of 2
- Natasha Howard misses free throw 2 of 2
- Isabelle Harrison makes driving layup
Shot Made
Shot Missed
Shot Made
Shot Missed
Data is currently unavailable.
Matchups
2025-26 Standings
Women's National Basketball Assoc.
| Western Conference | W | L | PCT | GB | STRK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 6 | 2 | .750 | - | W4 |
| Golden State | 5 | 2 | .714 | 0.5 | W2 |
| Dallas | 5 | 3 | .625 | 1 | W2 |
| Portland | 6 | 4 | .600 | 1 | W1 |
| Las Vegas | 4 | 3 | .571 | 1.5 | L2 |
| Los Angeles | 4 | 4 | .500 | 2 | L1 |
| Seattle | 3 | 6 | .333 | 3.5 | L2 |
| Phoenix | 2 | 7 | .222 | 4.5 | L5 |
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