{"id":7269,"date":"2022-08-12T04:52:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T04:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/connecticut-secures-no-3-seed-in-wnba-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T04:52:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T04:52:58","slug":"connecticut-secures-no-3-seed-in-wnba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=7269","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut secures No. 3 seed in WNBA playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-103 Component-p-0-2-94\">LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8211; Alyssa Thomas had 18 points, nine rebounds and five assists, Jonquel Jones had 17 points and eight rebounds and the Connecticut Sun beat the Los Angeles Sparks 93-69 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-103 Component-p-0-2-94\">Connecticut (24-11) clinched the third seed in the WNBA playoffs, with Las Vegas (25-10) and Chicago (25-10) taking the tiebreaker over the Sun.  Los Angeles (13-22) was eliminated from the playoffs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-103 Component-p-0-2-94\">Thomas, DeWanna Bonner and Brionna Jones each scored in double figures in the first half, combining for 38 points to help Connecticut lead 54-43. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-103 Component-p-0-2-94\">Brionna Jones finished with 16 points and Bonner had 13 points and seven assists for Connecticut.  Jonquel Jones recorded his 268th career block for Connecticut, passing Taj McWilliams-Franklin for the most in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-103 Component-p-0-2-94\">Brittney Sykes scored 18 points and Nneka Ogwumike had 10 points and nine rebounds for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-103 Component-p-0-2-94\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-103 Component-p-0-2-94\">More AP Women&#8217;s Basketball: i <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sports-las-vegas-los-angeles-connecticut-basketball-446af8bf6a33807496ba2d903dbf9b28\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8211; Alyssa Thomas had 18 points, nine rebounds and five assists, Jonquel Jones had 17 points and eight rebounds and the Connecticut Sun beat the Los Angeles Sparks 93-69 on Thursday night. Connecticut (24-11) clinched the third seed in the WNBA playoffs, with Las Vegas (25-10) and Chicago (25-10) taking the tiebreaker over the Sun. Los Angeles (13-22) was eliminated from the playoffs. Thomas, DeWanna Bonner and Brionna Jones each scored in double figures in the first half, combining for 38 points to help Connecticut lead 54-43. Brionna Jones finished with 16 points and Bonner had 13&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}