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Alexa Philippou
ESPN
- Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA
- Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer
One of the so-called superteams lived up to the nickname Sunday in the opening games of the WNBA semifinals. The other didn’t come close.
The Las Vegas Aces beat the Dallas Wings 97-83, shooting 53.6% from the field and outrebounding the bigger Wings 36-29. The Aces had a week between the conclusion of their first-round series and Game 1 of the semifinals but showed no rust. It was business as usual for the top-seeded defending champions.
The opposite was true for the No. 2 seed New York Liberty, who lost 78-63 to the Connecticut Sun, with season lows in points and shooting percentage (33.8). Coach Sandy Brondello called it the Liberty’s worst game of the season, promising a better performance Tuesday (8 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN The App) to avoid going…
