The Dallas Wings (17-14) defeated the Connecticut Sun (21-10) for the second game in a row on Friday evening, getting 30 points from Arike Ogunbowale and 16 offensive rebounds as a team in a lopsided 95-75 victory. The 2023 regular-season series between the Wings and Sun concludes with two wins for each team.
Though the Wings have had an up-and-down August—they’re now 3-3 during the month with a near-even net rating of minus-0.6—Friday’s game was an indisputable high point, and one of the Wings’ most complete efforts of the season.
Connecticut notoriously has been one of the WNBA’s toughest places to play over the years, but Dallas shrugged off any potential road woes, hitting the 90-point mark for the 13th time this season while holding the host Sun to 38 percent shooting from the field. Of particular note was the fourth quarter, which Dallas won convincingly, 29-12. It had been a back-and-forth game up until then with eight lead changes, but the Wings distanced themselves from the Sun when it mattered most, turning a close contest into a much more comfortable one in a matter of minutes.
Wings’ success over Sun shows season-long progress
In a way, the Wings’ margin of victory on Friday represented their growth over the course of the 2023 WNBA season. They…
