The Las Vegas Aces needed to put pressure on the New York Liberty. Everyone knew the stat: The Liberty had not lost two games in a row this season.
Until Wednesday. Until the highest stakes in the league.
The Aces started rolling from the opening tip to the final whistle, notching another WNBA Finals rout with a 104-76 win over the Liberty in Game 2 to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series at a sold-out Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas.
The Aces will try to close out the series and win their second straight championship, the first back-to-back titles in the WNBA since 2001-02, on Sunday in New York.