The Sky are for real, or and the Sun are in trouble: Connecticut have now lost four in a row. If the playoffs began today, Chicago would make them; the Sun would not.

What happened? Dupree (28 points on 10-14 shooting) looked unguardable and unstoppable, and the visitors simply looked more in sync for three of the game's four quarters.

Coach Thibault: "It's not very good basketball... We've had every kind of turnover you could think of." His team finished with nineteen of them. Jones (22 points) did her best, and Lindsay's up-and-down game gave her a double-double. But Sales and Douglas together hit just one three. Will one of them heat up? If not now, when?