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Michael Voepel
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- 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.
DALLAS — The Las Vegas Aces are one step closer in their quest to repeat. The defending champions are returning to the WNBA Finals for the second consecutive season and the third time in four years after sweeping the Dallas Wings 3-0 in the semifinals, capped by Friday’s 64-61 victory in Dallas. A’ja Wilson and her top-seeded Aces — who have yet to drop a game in the postseason — have earned a well-deserved break ahead of the Finals, which open Oct. 8 in Las Vegas.
“On our last defensive possession, our mindset was, ‘We’re good, we’ve got this. Let’s just execute,'” Wilson said as Las Vegas closed on an 11-0 run and didn’t allow the Wings to score in the final 5 minutes. “I just felt like we were so connected.”
But which team will the Aces face…
