Again playing without Napheesa Collier, the Minnesota Lynx saw their six-game winning streak end with Tuesday’s loss.

With less than a month left in the WNBA regular season, the Minnesota Lynx have a firm lock on the top seed in the playoffs.

Thus ends the series of Finals rematches between the Liberty and Lynx, who played to a five-game thriller last fall in what became New York's first postseason championship run. None of the four games featured Liberty star Breanna Stewart while her fellow UConn alum and Unrivaled co-founder Napheesa Collier missed the latter three.

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The Minnesota Lynx currently hold No. 1 position in the WNBA standings with an impressive 28-5 record. And on Tuesday evening, the league's top team will face

After signing with the Minnesota Lynx, Jaylyn Sherrod speaks out for the first time following her release from the Liberty.

The Lynx never trailed again and pulled away in the final minute for an 86-80 win, their sixth in a row and third over the Liberty this season. Now 28-5, the Lynx have opened up a seven-game lead in the race for the No. 1 overall seed, which comes with homecourt advantage throughout the playoffs.

Perhaps the best (and certainly funniest) story to follow in this 2025 WNBA season has been the rise of StudBudz, which is the moniker that Lynx guards Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman (both of whom are currently rocking pink hair) call themselves when they're live-streaming on Twitch.