Clay Kallam predicted that the Lib wouldn't have much of a chance in the Indy series. It looks like he was right.

After allowing NY to battle back into the game, the Fever pulled away at the end and took Game 1. Tully's 3-pointer with 1:33 left was the game's biggest shot. "We call her the Tasmanian devil," Natalie Williams said. "She's everywhere. She's like a little pit bull."

"That really hurt," coach Coyle said of Tully's three. "It was huge, actually."

Indy shot 13 more free throws than the Lib did; when asked about the officiating, coach Coyle responded: "I don't make enough money." At least part of the disparity, however, is just -- when Indy gets in trouble late in the shot clock, it drives; when New York gets in trouble, it throws up jumpers.

(Media notes: the IndyStar sent David Woods to the Big Apple. In the first game of the post-Lena Williams era, David Picker covered the Lib for the Times.)