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				<title><![CDATA[Sutton-Brown leads Fever past Connecticut]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By CLIFF BRUNT
AP Sports Writer

INDIANAPOLIS(AP) -- Indiana held Connecticut to just 30 points and
34 percent shooting in the first half. Still, Fever coach Lin
Dunn wasn't satisfied, urging her team to tighten its defense
even more in the second.

The Fever responded by holding the Sun scoreless for nearly five
minutes to start the third quarter and cruising to a 67-53 win
Thursday night for a franchise-record seventh straight victory.

Dunn cited strong defense as the most consistent factor during
the streak, which has given Indiana the WNBA's best record. The
Fever gave up 87 and 96 points in two losses to start the
season, but have allowed an average of just 64 points since.

"Defend, defend and defend, and then if you defend, you're going
to have opportunities to score off your defense," said Dunn, who
was unaware that the win streak was a team high.

"I don't keep up with records," she said. "I didn't know that.
Whoop-de-doo. Way to go. The only thing that matters is the
first quarter of the next game."

Tammy Sutton-Brown had 10 points and 11 rebounds in the first
half to help Indiana take a 37-30 halftime lead. She finished
with 14 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks.

"I've concentrated on shooting outside with confidence and
knowing I can shoot the ball," Sutton-Brown said. "I think it is
maturing and growing with the game, just being smarter."

Katie Douglas scored 14 points and Tamika Catchings and Ebony
Hoffman each scored 10 for Indiana (7-2).

Lindsay Whalen scored 11 points and Asjha Jones added 10 for the
Sun (4-4), whose three-game winning streak ended.

"The two teams are similar in styles of play," Connecticut coach
Mike Thibault said. "They were better tonight. They were more
aggressive and had more rebounds than us."

Connecticut shot 32 percent overall in managing a season-low
point total.

"We didn't have the ball reversal that we normally get and
couldn't get back into an offense," Jones said.

Indiana assigned 36-year-old point guard Tully Bevilaqua to
Whalen for most of the second half. Whalen had 11 points at
halftime, but went scoreless on 0-for-3 shooting after the
break.

"She was the leading scorer in the first half, and we
specifically talked about how that is not good," Dunn said. "We
were letting her get to the rim, we're letting her get to the
paint. And I give a lot of credit to Tully. She really took that
on as a challenge."

The Fever offense clicked on a night in which its top two
scorers, Douglas and Catchings, combined to make just 7 of 18
shots.

"The thing about this team is, it doesn't matter who scores, it
doesn't matter who gets the credit," Dunn said. "What matters is
that we play well together and that we win."]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:39:08 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Sun-Fever Preview]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By DAN PIERINGER
STATS Writer

Connecticut (4-3) at Indiana (6-2), 7:00 p.m. EDT

Connecticut Sun coach Mike Thibault has to be pleased with the
way his team has rebounded from an inauspicious start to the
season.

The Sun, however, still have a ways to go before their
turnaround can be considered comparable to the Indiana Fever's.

The Fever go for their franchise-record seventh consecutive win
Thursday night when they host the Sun, riding a three-game
streak of their own.

After losing its first two games of the year, Indiana (6-2) has
rebounded with six straight victories by an average of 8.8
points. The Fever, who also won six straight in July 2007, have
overcome their slow start to take over the best record in the
Eastern Conference.

"As a team, we're playing with a lot of confidence," forward
Tamika Catchings said after finishing with 13 points, 11
rebounds and four assists in a 63-54 win over New York on
Saturday night. "It seems like the chemistry is there and that's
something we've worked so hard to get over the years."

Indiana had four players scored in double figures and went 9 for
20 (45.0 percent) from 3-point range Saturday. It was the fourth
time during their winning streak the Fever made nine 3-pointers,
and they have no intention of letting up.

"We're on a pretty good roll, but nothing is promised," said
forward Ebony Hoffman, who was 3 for 3 from beyond the arc
against the Liberty. "We can't think we're going to win every
game because every team has beefed up their roster. Right now,
we're just trying to ride this wave and hopefully it keeps
going."

The Sun (4-3) are hoping the same thing after finishing a
perfect three-game homestand. Connecticut won each game by at
least 13 points, posting an average margin of victory of 19.0
after dropping three of its first four contests this year.

Asjha Jones had a season-high 24 points and a career high-tying
12 rebounds to lead the Sun to an 82-68 win over Atlanta on
Saturday night.

"This was a really, really good win," said Thibault, whose club
was without rookie center Chante Black because of a sprained
elbow. "Seeing as how we were short-handed, I thought we did a
good job of balancing what we needed to do."

The Fever won two of three against the Sun last season, and the
teams split two meetings at Conseco Fieldhouse. Indiana forward
Katie Douglas averaged 20.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 5.0 assists
in the two wins but was held to eight points, four rebounds and
two assists in the defeat.

Jones, who averaged a career-high 17.0 points in 2008, scored
12.7 per game against the Fever.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:43:36 GMT</pubDate>
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