The 2nd-through-4th place teams in the West — Seattle, Minnesota, San Antonio — are all playing .500 ball over their last 10 games, which is good news for #4 San Antonio. The Stars lost no ground to the others, and have played fewer games, giving them more time to catch up, while their #1 center comes back sometime in the second half.
The last-place Sacramento Monarchs go into the second half 3.5 games ahead (or behind, depending on how you look at it) of Detroit and Los Angeles in the race to draft Stanford’s Jayne Appel.
The Monarchs, who used to be the toughest home team in the WNBA, are 2-5 SU and 3-4 ATS at Arco Arena. Their totals are easy to figure — if their opponents make 72, the game goes over. At home, Sacramento is 3-4 O/U — in three of those unders, while their opponents weren’t making 72, the Monarchs weren’t making 66.
In their last three road games, San Antonio got 20 points each from Becky Hammon and Sophia Young, but the results at book were not as consistent: 2-1 O/U and 2-1 ATS.
