The Phoenix Mercury are not having a good season. They've got the second-worst record in the WNBA and haven't even won 10 games yet. But for one quarter on Thursday night, they were the best in WNBA history.
In the first quarter against the Connecticut Sun, the Mercury scored 45 points, a record for most points scored in one quarter of a WNBA game. The Mercury's new record replaced the previous record of 44 points, which was set on July 23 by the New York Liberty.
Phoenix took 17 shots in the first quarter and missed just one, which comes out to 94.