Eight games. Three days. The 2025 WNBA season is off and running. And so far we’ve seen the defending champion New York Liberty open strong, the Indiana Fever‘s Caitlin Clark record a triple-double and the Washington Mystics –perhaps better than most predicted — start 2-0.
There’s only so much to take away from a small sample size of games to begin the grind of a 44-game regular season that ends in September. Still, first impressions mean something — at least until we have enough results and data to make more informed judgments.
Sometimes slow starts can turn around — see the Fever last season making the playoffs after opening 1-8 — while other times they are an indicator that a team is in for a long season of frustration.
Here are ESPN’s early takeaways as we head into the first full week of the WNBA season.
Indiana will be a better defensive team this season
No one doubts the Fever can be as good (or better) offensively this season as they were last year, when they ranked first in field goal percentage (45.6) and third in scoring (85.0 PPG) and offensive rating (106.1) behind then-rookie point guard…
