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The 2005 WNBA Finals was the best-of-five championship series for the 2005 season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The Sacramento Monarchs, top-seeded champions of the Western Conference, defeated the Connecticut Sun, top-seeded champions of the Eastern Conference, three games to one in a best-of-five series.
20-8 August 16 @ Los Angeles: 72-63 Win 21-8 August 18 San Antonio: 64-57 Win 22-8 August 20 Seattle: 75-65 Win 23-8 August 23 Phoenix: 76-70 Win 24-8 August 25 @ Seattle: 63-76 Loss 24-9 August 27 @ Minnesota: 61-52 Win 25-9 August 31 First Round, G1 @ Los Angeles: 75-72 Win 1-0 September 2 First Round, G2 Los Angeles: 81-63 Win 2-0 September ...
The finale series was known as the WNBA Championship from 1997 to 2001, before changing to WNBA Finals to reflect its NBA counterpart. In 2005, the WNBA Finals adopted a best-of-five format. In 2016, the WNBA began seeding teams #1 through #8 regardless of conference making it possible for two Eastern Conference or two Western Conference teams ...
Game 1 of the WNBA championship series between the Liberty and Lynx gets underway Thursday at 8 p.m. ET at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. How to watch Game 1 of the WNBA Finals
The Monarchs won their first ever WNBA Finals by defeating the Connecticut Sun, three games to one in a best-of-five playoff series, which brought the city of Sacramento its second major championship in a professional sport. After winning the championship, the Monarchs became the first women's professional team to appear on a Wheaties box.
The WNBA Finals' super-team showdown is paying ratings dividends.
The 2024 championship theft comes eight years after Minnesota was robbed by awful officiating in the 2016 WNBA Finals against the Los Angeles Sparks. "All the headlines will be 'Reeve cries foul.'
The Semifinals and Finals are both best-of-five, played with a homecourt pattern of 2–2–1 (the higher seed hosts games 1, 2, and 5, while the lower seed hosts games 3 and 4). [1] Beginning in 2025 the WNBA finals will expand to Best of 7 and the first round will change to a 1-1-1 format (with games 1 and 3 being hosted by the higher seed ...