Overview
- Connecticut beat Phoenix 96-83 on Friday after Leila Lacan scored a career-high 26 points and the Sun shot 52.2 percent as a team from the field.
- In the rematch on Sunday Phoenix ended its five-game losing streak with a 72-63 win that featured DeWanna Bonner's season-high 21 points and a stronger defensive effort.
- Leila Lacan went from a 26-point outburst on Friday to seven points and a career-high nine turnovers on Sunday, and Phoenix scored 22 points off Connecticut’s season-high 21 turnovers.
- Brittney Griner provided inside scoring for the Sun with 12 points on Friday and 19 on Sunday while Natasha Mack returned from an eight-game absence for Phoenix and played 20 minutes off the bench.
- Discipline and depth are now key storylines: Kahleah Copper picked up her sixth technical on Friday and sits two technicals from a one-game suspension, and both teams must fix defensive breakdowns that have left opponents shooting at high rates.