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The following season, it was expanded to eight teams with the top four teams from each conference advancing to the playoffs. In 2005, the WNBA Finals became a best-of-five series. Despite the departure of some teams later on, this format continued until 2015. From 2016-2021, a new format was introduced, featuring a stepladder-like system. In ...
Games are divided into four 10-minute quarters as opposed to the league's original two 20-minute halves of play, similar to FIBA and NCAA women's college rules. A recent trend with new WNBA rules has been to match them with a similar NBA rule. Since the 2006 WNBA season: [98]
The standard court size in U.S. college and WNBA play is 94 by 50 feet (28.65 by 15.24 m), while the FIBA standard court is slightly smaller at 28 by 15 m (91 ft 10.36 in by 49 ft 2.55 in) . For most of its distance, the three-point line is 6.75 m (22 ft 1.75 in) from the middle of the basket under both FIBA and WNBA rules.
The Indiana Fever, who have Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark, the first overall picks in the 2023 and 2024 WNBA Draft, are in the playoffs for the first time since 2016.
If she kept at her current pace of 19.2 points per game, played in every game and the WNBA stays at 40 regular season games, Clark would become the WNBA all-time scoring leader in her 14th season ...
Denotes player who is still active in the WNBA * Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame † Not yet eligible for Hall of Fame consideration [a] ‡ Denotes player who won the Most Valuable Player award that year Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player had been the scoring leader up to and including that season G ...
WNBA teams are scoring at near record levels thanks in strong part to a quicker pace of play and some impressive individual efforts. Teams are averaging 82.6 points a game this season, just a ...
The 2024 WNBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the Women's National Basketball Association's 2024 season. The playoffs began on September 22, 2024, and ended on October 20, 2024 with the New York Liberty winning their first championship.