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Michael Voepel
ESPN.com
- Michael Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.
NEW YORK — Tuesday’s WNBA semifinals went how they were mostly projected to play out: The New York Liberty evened things up against the Connecticut Sun, avoiding a disastrous 0-2 start despite hosting the first two games of their best-of-five series.
And in the nightcap, the Las Vegas Aces took care of business against the Dallas Wings 91-84 to go up 2-0. The Aces are one win away from clinching a spot in the WNBA Finals for the second consecutive season and the third time in four years.
In Brooklyn, Game 2 started similarly to Game 1. Connecticut set the tone early and the Liberty had difficulty slowing down a Sun guard, in this case Tiffany Hayes. But this time New York responded with a big run to start the third quarter, forcing Connecticut…
