The WNBA regular season is a wrap, and with the playoffs beginning today, it’s time to put up or shut up for the Phoenix Mercury.
They finished with a 20-14 record in this up-and-down season but closed the campaign with a four-game winning streak to secure the team’s first 20-win season since 2015 and earn the No. 5 seed in the playoffs, which brings with it home court in the first-round single-elimination game today against the No. 8 seed Dallas Wings. Phoenix went 2-1 against the Wings this season.
The Mercury have advanced through the single-elimination rounds both in 2016 and 2017 and will have to do so again to push deep into the playoffs.