Indiana Fever vs. Connecticut Sun WNBA game score, results: Why is Caitlin Clark not with team today? Time, how to watch
Kelsey Mitchell and Aliyah Boston lead the Fever, while Tina Charles and Marina Mabrey lead Connecticut.
Will will have Fever vs. Sun live score updates, so remember to refresh.
Sun 24, Fever 11, end 1Q: The Fever have 5 made field goals and 8 turnovers. Odyssey Sims has 6 points for Indiana, Tina Charles 8 for Connecticut. Indiana's Nathasha Howard, who has 5 points, gets foul No. 2 in the closing minute.
Aliyah Boston commits her second foul with 4:04 left, and Damiris Dontas replaces her.
Sun 11, Fever 4, 6:32 left 1Q: Connecticut scores 10 points in a row. Timeout, Indiana. Tina Charles has 6 points for the Sun, and Odyssey Sims all 4 of Indiana's points. Sophie Cunningham gets a technical foul in the opening minute.
Fever: Kelsey Mitchell, Nathasha Howard, Aliyah Boston, Sophie Cunningham, Odyssey Sims
Sun: Marina Mabrey, Leila Lacan, Tina Charles, Aneesha Morrow, Bria Hartley
Here's what Fever coach Stephanie White said August 17 about Caitlin Clark, who has missed a month with a groin injury: 'The most important thing continues to be that she is 100% when she's ready to come back. The timing is never ideal, but her long-term health and wellness is the most-important thing.'
Will Clark return in 2025? 'That's the hope. The hope is that she's back," White said.
The grandmother of Connor McCaffery, Caitlin Clark's boyfriend, died unexpectedly last week. Clark is with him. More here
The Fever have signed point guard Odyssey Sims to a second 7-day hardship contract, and she will start in place of Lexie Hull today.
1 p.m. ET Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025, at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.
TV: FanDuel-Indiana, NBC Sports Boston, NBA TV, with Pat Boylan (play-by-play), Debbie Antonelli (analyst), Kelsie Kasper (sideline)
Watch Indiana Fever vs Connecticut Sun on Fubo
Radio: 93.5 and 107.5 FM in Indianapolis, with John Nolan (play-by-play), Bria Goss (analysis)
Fever coach Stephanie White said August 11 that Caitlin Clark is working her way back but has not fully participated in a practice. Clark has not played since suffering a right groin injury on July 15.
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In 13 games this season, Caitlin Clark averages 16.5 points, 8.8 assists, 5.0 rebounds and 1.6 steals, making 27.9% of her 3-pointers.
The Indiana Fever lost to the Washington Mystics 88-84 on Friday, August 15. Aliyah Boston had 20 points and 9 rebounds.
From Brian Haenchen, IndyStar: Fever 85, Sun 72
"Nothing like a trip to Connecticut to get a team right, right? Right?? The Fever failed to capitalize on similar opportunities at home against the Dallas Wings and Washington Mystics, but those losses were preceded by a 22-point thumping of the Chicago Sky. And the Sun are behind the Sky in the standings.
"So, transitive property, it should be smooth sailing out east.
"More seriously, the Fever are desperate for a win and this is a great opportunity to address the issues that arose in Friday's loss — the stagnant offense and over-reliance on Kelsey Mitchell.
"I suspect Kyra Lambert will make her debut (with how the schedule sets up, it's kind of now or never) and it would not surprise me if Odyssey Sims slots into the starting lineup. Indiana pulls away late."
via BetMGM
Favorite: Fever by 6.5 points
Over/under: 166.5 total points
Moneyline: Fever -300, Sun +240
ESPN's matchup predictor gives the Fever a 72.7% chance of winning.
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The Fever are 2-1 vs. the Sun in 2025. Indiana beat Connecticut 88-71 on June 17 in a game that featured altercations involving Indiana's Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham, and Connecticut's Jacy Sheldon (since traded), Marina Mabrey, Tina Charles and Lindsay Allen.
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Caitlin Clark isn't playing and the Indiana Fever are still winning and the WNBA is still thriving and these are things people don't want you to know. Well, not all people are trying to hide these truths. The WNBA would love for you to understand how healthy the league is, overall. The Fever would love for you to understand how successful this team has been, in the big picture, despite injuries to Caitlin Clark and every other point guard on roster. But people are weird. Yeah, I'm saying it. Here's what they're saying at other places: 'Calls mount for Fever to fire Stephanie White amid slump without Caitlin Clark' 'WNBA TV ratings down more than 50% since Caitlin Clark injury' Is some of that true? Yeah. Some of it. Please note the italics. That's what we should do for four-letter words. We sneer at them because they're, um, crap. Even after all her injuries, all her missed games, all the WNBA success locally and nationally without her, (some) people are focused too much on Caitlin Clark. And by too much, I mean obsessed. Putting that one in italics too. Sneering that word too, and sneering at all those weird people — yeah, I'm saying it — who cannot separate, who refuse to separate, this league from that player. That player is injured, yes. But this league is thriving anyway. Anyone want to click on that story? Who was calling for the firing of Stephanie White? Idiots on Twitter. That's it. That's all. But this is what the bottomer-feeders of today's media do now: They go to social media, find the dumbest comments and spin them into a TREND or BREAKING NEWS or CLICK ON THIS BAIT. And folks must be clicking. Because media sites, and I'm talking about (once) respected media sites, keep chumming the water. Hey, readers, here's some bait! Click. 'Calls mount for Fever to fire Stephanie White amid slump without Caitlin Clark' Click. When did calls mount for the Fever to fire Stephanie White, according to the formerly respected sports magazine once known as Athlon? After their loss Friday to Washington, and yes, that was an ugly loss. And, yes, that was the Fever's fourth loss in five games. But that was just a handful of Twitter idiots calling for White's dismissal. And guess what had happened in the Fever's five games before that? Five wins. Click? No? Clark has played 13 games, and surprise surprise, the Fever are better when she plays (8-5) than when she doesn't (11-11). But they're still a .500 team without her, and they're not just without her, but without every other point guard they had earlier this season. The Fever have suffered an unreal string of injuries — to Clark, to Sydney Colson (torn ACL), to Aari McDonald (broken foot) — plus the bizarre loss of DeWanna Bonner (betrayal), who didn't like her role on this team so she quit. The Fever's run of bad news has been Biblical — think: Job — and it continued Sunday afternoon at Connecticut when Sophie Cunningham suffered a possible season-ending knee injury. Click. But the Fever won that game anyway. In fact, after trailing by 21 points early and by 14 in the fourth quarter, they pulled off the biggest rally in franchise history. Click? No? Of course TV ratings are down without Caitlin Clark. Her absence affects things. But there's a large gap between 'affect' and 'ruin' — see which word got the italics? — and that's what some people, some really weird people, cannot accept. Folks are so obsessed with Clark, and with her impact on the league, that they refuse to see what's really happening. What's really happening? Attendance this season, with Caitlin Clark injured for so long, has almost doubled since 2023 — the year before she arrived from Iowa. TV ratings are up 158% from 2023. Click? No? Well, try this: 'WNBA TV ratings down more than 50% since Caitlin Clark injury.' Click. That headline was from June, and it was true: Games with Clark, earlier this season, were viewed more than the first few games without her. But here's the context: Even without Clark, ratings and attendance have skyrocketed. It's like this: In 2023 the league averaged 6,615 fans per game, a 16% increase from 2022. The defending champion Las Vegas Aces saw the highest increase (more than 66%), drawing a WNBA-best 9,551 fans per game. Again, that was 2023. When Clark was still in college. Here in 2025, average attendance — league-wide — is more than 11,000. And the Aces, experiencing a down season with the fifth-best record in the league (21-14), are averaging a franchise-record 10,922 fans per game. Click? No? You can find those numbers if you look hard enough, but beware. The clickbait is heavy. Does your internet browser automatically open to one of those aggregating sites that throw bait, er, headlines at you? Yup, so does mine. And here was the first headline on my browser this morning, after the Fever's record-setting comeback Sunday night at Connecticut: Caitlin Clark makes bold declaration after Fever-Sun Click. You have to dig deep to get to the real subject of the story, Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell, who has elevated her game in Clark's absence — still a dynamite scorer, she's also quite the playmaker — and posted 38 points and six assists to fuel the furious comeback. After the game Clark tweeted 'MVP kels,' and the formerly respected news source once known as Newsweek decided to give Clark all the attention. Because, you know… Click. That Newsweek headline about Caitlin Clark's 'bold declaration' was followed on my stupid browser by more headlines, by more of the usual bait: The latest President Trump news, something about sororities and TikTok, and this priceless gem: 'Minnesota man who found car while fishing probably solved 1967 cold case' Click. Remember when people read books? Meanwhile, the WNBA rolls toward a 2025 postseason that should break records for attendance and TV ratings. The Fever, despite Bonner's betrayal and a point-guard plague of locusts, continue to compete for a playoff spot. Kelsey Mitchell, one of the better players in the league since arriving here from Ohio State in 2018, has become one of the absolute best. In 13 games alongside Clark this season, Mitchell has averaged 19.2 points and 2.2 assists. In 22 games without her? Mitchell is up to 21.3 ppg and 4.1 apg. Those are MVP numbers. Click? What if Caitlin Clark says it? Click. Find IndyStar columnist Gregg Doyel on Threads, or on BlueSky and Twitter at @GreggDoyelStar, or at Subscribe to the free weekly Doyel on Demand newsletter.
