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Fans traveled across state lines to cheer on their respective teams, and expressed their desire for Boston to create its own WNBA team.

The Indiana Fever guard caught an elbow to the head in their Tuesday contest against the Connecticut Sun. The Fever were playing defense, and Cunningham was following Leïla Lacan. Unfortunately for her, Olivia Nelson-Ododa swung her right arm, and her elbow hit Cunningham in the head, which caused her to fall to the ground momentarily.

The Indiana Fever and Connecticut Sun played before a sold-out TD Garden on Tuesday, the second year in a row the WNBA has filled the arena to capacity for a regular season game. Fever guard Sophie Cunningham is hoping Boston hosts more games in the future.

With five minutes left and the Connecticut Sun trailing by two, a small, faint chant began echoing throughout TD Garden. “We want Caitlin! We want Caitlin!” screamed a group of young girls, all wearing No.

Big WNBA News Emerges After Indiana Fever-Dallas Wings Game originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Indiana Fever recently faced the Dallas Wings, the first matchup in the WNBA between Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers. Indiana ultimately defeated the Wings 102-83, winning their second straight game.

This season’s Wings-Fever matchups have drawn plenty of attention by bringing together two of the league’s bright young stars.

Indiana isn’t going to, nor should it, be a defensive juggernaut in line with Stephanie White’s Sun squads. It merely needs to do enough to jump-start the type of offensive plays that can demoralize opponents.