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The Dream (12-25) are one game back as all
three teams head into the final three games of the regular
season.
Courtney Williams added 14 points and 10 assists and Alanna
Smith registered 11 points and 12 rebounds for the Lynx (28-9).
Myisha Hines-Allen had 11 points off the bench as Minnesota led
by as many 20 while winning its fifth straight game and 12th in
its past 13.
Chennedy Carter scored 17 points and Kamilla Cardoso added 16
points, 10 rebounds and three blocked shots for Chicago (13-24),
which has dropped nine of its last 11 games. Lindsay Allen and
Rachel Banham added 10 points for the Sky, who played without
star rookie Angel Reese (season-ending wrist injury) for the
third straight game.
The Lynx shot 45.2 percent from the field and made 8 of 26 shots
from 3-point range.
Chicago connected on 36.8 percent of its shots, including 4 of
17 from behind the arc.
Minnesota led by five at the break before outscoring Chicago
24-9 in the third quarter. The Lynx made 11 of 19 shots in the
quarter while the Sky hit only 3 of 19.
Williams scored six points during a quarter-opening 11-0 burst
as Minnesota took a 51-35 lead.
Collier later buried a 3-pointer to give the Lynx a 58-41
advantage with 2:41 remaining. Hines-Allen made a pair of
baskets in the final minute as Minnesota led 64-44 entering the
fourth.
Chicago experienced a revival in the final stanza by scoring the
first 11 points, the last four coming from Michaela Onyenwere.
The margin was later 12 before McBride made two free throws,
Collier added a basket and Smith drained a 3-pointer to push the
Minnesota lead to 78-59 with 2:27 remaining en route to closing
it out.
Chicago led 18-9 late in the first quarter before the Lynx
rallied. Minnesota used a 19-5 burst in the second quarter to
move ahead 40-31 with 2:17 remaining in the half.
The Lynx led 40-35 at the break behind 10 points from Collier.
Carter had 11 in the half for the Sky.
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