Connecticut Sun's win over Minnesota Lynx delivers the perfect WNBA playoffs showdown

MINNEAPOLIS — Basketball might be a game of runs, but Connecticut-versus-Minnesota basketball is a game of inches. Regardless of which arena, which lineup, which month — no two WNBA teams have been better matched, blow-for-blow, this season than these. The latest data point — Connecticut’s 73-70 win over Minnesota in Game 1 of the WNBA semifinals — was another one of those nail-biter, stomach-clenching, it’s-anyone’s-game kind of contests. For that, basketball fans should rejoice. This is what you want to see in the playoffs. Two teams so perfectly matched that truly every...

Connecticut Sun's win over Minnesota Lynx delivers the perfect WNBA playoffs showdown
MINNEAPOLIS — Basketball might be a game of runs, but Connecticut-versus-Minnesota basketball is a game of inches. Regardless of which arena, which lineup, which month — no two WNBA teams have been better matched, blow-for-blow, this season than these. The latest data point — Connecticut’s 73-70 win over Minnesota in Game 1 of the WNBA semifinals — was another one of those nail-biter, stomach-clenching, it’s-anyone’s-game kind of contests. For that, basketball fans should rejoice. This is what you want to see in the playoffs. Two teams so perfectly matched that truly every...