The Silver Stars, who just slid into the playoffs, proved they belonged in the postseason last night: the SASS led for most of the game, fell behind late in the fourth, but pulled ahead again thanks to clutch shooting from the usually unheralded Edwige Lawson Wade, who finished 4-6 from behind the arc. "They didn't guard me," Lawson-Wade said.

The SASS played good defense on Cappie, befuddled DT, and seemed able to match the Mercury's pace; the Merc, for their part, got fine play out of Penny Taylor, but ended the game with the apparently inexplicable decision not to foul with twenty-odd seconds left and trailing by four.

Penny hit a three at the buzzer, and at least one of her teammates celebrated, exactly as if she had tied the game: did the coaching staff, too, think the Merc trailed by three, not by four?