2005 Connecticut Sun Stats

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Record: 26-8, 1st in WNBA Eastern Conference

Coach: Mike Thibault (26-8)

Executive: Chris Sienko

PTS/G: 72.8 (2nd of 13) Opp PTS/G: 66.0 (3rd of 13)

Pace: 69.9 (5th of 13)

Off Rtg: 104.1 (1st of 13) Def Rtg: 94.4 (4th of 13) Net Rtg: +9.7 (2nd of 13)

Expected W-L: 25-9

Arena: Mohegan Sun Arena

Playoffs:
Won WNBA Eastern Conference Semifinals (2-0) over Detroit Shock
Won WNBA Eastern Conference Finals (2-0) over Indiana Fever
Lost WNBA Finals (3-1) to Sacramento Monarchs

WNBA Runners-up
Eastern Conference Champions

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date	Exp	College
22	Jessica Brungo	F	6-1	165	April 16, 1982	1	Penn State
10	Jamie Carey	G	5-6	135	March 12, 1981	R	Texas
34	Jennifer Derevjanik	G	5-10	140	March 29, 1982	1	George Mason
32	Katie Douglas	G-F	6-0	165	May 7, 1979	4	Purdue
12	Margo Dydek	C	7-2	223	April 28, 1974	7
15	Asjha Jones	F	6-2	187	August 1, 1980	3	UConn
11	Taj McWilliams-Franklin	F-C	6-2	195	October 20, 1970	6	Georgia State University, St. Edward's University
42	Nykesha Sales	F-G	6-0	184	May 10, 1976	6	UConn
14	Laura Summerton	C	6-2	167	December 13, 1983	R
13	Lindsay Whalen	G	5-9	170	May 9, 1982	1	Minnesota
43	Le'coe Willingham	F	6-0	200	February 10, 1981	1	Auburn
21	Brooke Wyckoff	F	6-1	183	March 30, 1980	3	Florida State

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Team and Opponent Stats

Ranks are per game and sorted descending (except for TOV and PF); opponents ranked are flipped; year/year calculations are also per game

Team and Opponent Stats Table
Type	G	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Team	34	6800	916	2025	.452	130	373	.349	786	1652	.476	512	688	.744	322	788	1110	573	236	130	452	624	2474
Team/G		200.0	26.9	59.6	.452	3.8	11.0	.349	23.1	48.6	.476	15.1	20.2	.744	9.5	23.2	32.6	16.9	6.9	3.8	13.3	18.4	72.8
Lg Rank		9	1	4	1	7	8	4	2	4	2	4	5	7	5	2	2	1	10	5	3	3	2
Year/Year		-1.4%	+4.3%	-1.2%	+2.5	-13.6%	-19.7%	+3.0	+7.9%	+4.3%	+1.7	+18.0%	+16.1%	+0.8	+1.1%	+8.9%	+6.2%	+0.6%	-21.6%	+35.7%	-2.2%	+2.8%	+6.0%
Opponent	34	6800	835	2100	.398	122	400	.305	713	1700	.419	452	599	.755	350	728	1078	495	258	79	442	675	2244
Opp/G		200.0	24.6	61.8	.398	3.6	11.8	.305	21.0	50.0	.419	13.3	17.6	.755	10.3	21.4	31.7	14.6	7.6	2.3	13.0	19.9	66.0
Lg Rank		9	6	12	1	3	7	2	7	12	1	4	3	10	11	11	13	7	6	1	4	8	3
Year/Year			-2.4%	+5.3%	-3.2	-16.3%	+4.4%	-7.3	0.0%	+5.5%	-2.3	+2.3%	0.0%	+1.5	+14.4%	-3.6%	+1.6%	-12.0%	+8.6%	-30.3%	-9.7%	+8.2%	-2.7%

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Per Game

Regular Season

Playoffs

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Taj McWilliams-Franklin	34	34	34	31.9	5.3	10.7	.495	0.1	0.5	.222	5.2	10.2	.509	3.1	4.0	.787	2.3	5.0	7.3	1.9	1.1	0.7	1.7	2.4	13.9
2	Nykesha Sales	29	34	34	31.6	5.9	14.2	.417	1.4	3.4	.422	4.5	10.8	.415	2.4	3.2	.750	1.1	2.6	3.6	2.2	1.8	0.3	1.9	2.8	15.6
3	Katie Douglas	26	32	32	31.2	3.7	9.0	.413	1.0	3.4	.282	2.8	5.6	.494	2.6	3.3	.774	1.4	2.7	4.1	2.9	1.5	0.1	1.7	1.8	11.0
4	Lindsay Whalen	23	34	34	30.8	4.0	8.5	.466	0.5	1.4	.348	3.5	7.2	.488	3.7	4.6	.801	0.9	2.9	3.8	5.1	1.2	0.1	2.6	2.6	12.1
5	Margo Dydek	31	31	30	21.6	2.8	5.2	.537	0.0	0.1	.500	2.8	5.2	.538	1.6	2.1	.769	0.9	5.4	6.3	1.2	0.3	2.3	1.5	2.0	7.3
6	Asjha Jones	24	33	4	21.4	4.0	8.3	.484	0.1	0.2	.400	4.0	8.2	.485	1.0	1.7	.589	1.6	2.0	3.7	1.2	0.3	0.2	1.5	2.1	9.1
7	Brooke Wyckoff	25	34	1	17.5	1.0	2.6	.398	0.6	1.5	.423	0.4	1.1	.361	0.4	0.6	.650	0.7	2.1	2.8	1.0	0.4	0.3	0.8	2.4	3.1
8	Jennifer Derevjanik	23	34	1	10.6	0.2	0.6	.364	0.0	0.2	.143	0.2	0.4	.467	0.2	0.5	.438	0.3	0.6	0.9	1.2	0.3	0.1	0.8	1.4	0.7
9	Jamie Carey	24	15	0	5.7	0.5	1.3	.368	0.3	0.9	.308	0.2	0.4	.500	0.0	0.0		0.1	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.3	0.6	1.2
10	Le'coe Willingham	24	18	0	5.1	0.4	0.9	.412	0.0	0.0		0.4	0.9	.412	0.6	1.1	.500	0.6	0.4	0.9	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.8	0.9	1.3
11	Jessica Brungo	23	12	0	4.0	0.1	0.8	.111	0.0	0.3	.000	0.1	0.4	.200	0.0	0.0		0.1	0.4	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.3	0.2
12	Laura Summerton	21	11	0	3.9	0.3	0.8	.333	0.0	0.0		0.3	0.8	.333	0.4	0.5	.800	0.5	0.5	0.9	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.4	1.0	0.9

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Taj McWilliams-Franklin	34	8	8	35.5	6.0	11.8	.511	0.1	0.4	.333	5.9	11.4	.516	3.8	4.8	.789	2.8	6.6	9.4	1.6	1.1	1.4	2.0	2.9	15.9
2	Katie Douglas	26	8	8	34.8	3.9	8.4	.463	1.9	4.8	.395	2.0	3.6	.552	2.4	3.6	.655	1.5	3.1	4.6	2.3	1.4	0.1	1.0	2.1	12.0
3	Nykesha Sales	29	8	8	33.8	4.6	12.6	.366	2.0	4.8	.421	2.6	7.9	.333	3.1	3.9	.806	1.3	2.8	4.0	2.4	2.0	1.0	2.0	2.5	14.4
4	Lindsay Whalen	23	7	7	31.4	2.7	8.1	.333	0.4	2.1	.200	2.3	6.0	.381	5.3	6.9	.771	0.9	2.6	3.4	3.3	0.9	0.1	2.9	1.6	11.1
5	Asjha Jones	24	8	0	22.3	3.6	7.5	.483	0.0	0.3	.000	3.6	7.3	.500	1.6	2.9	.565	1.0	2.5	3.5	0.9	0.3	0.5	1.4	2.9	8.9
6	Margo Dydek	31	8	8	18.3	1.8	4.8	.368	0.1	0.1	1.000	1.6	4.6	.351	0.9	1.4	.636	1.0	4.3	5.3	0.5	0.4	1.6	2.0	2.4	4.5
7	Brooke Wyckoff	25	8	0	13.6	0.6	1.5	.417	0.5	1.3	.400	0.1	0.3	.500	0.5	0.8	.667	0.4	1.5	1.9	0.4	0.1	0.3	0.6	1.6	2.3
8	Jamie Carey	24	6	0	11.8	0.3	1.5	.222	0.2	1.0	.167	0.2	0.5	.333	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.3	0.3	1.2	0.2	0.0	0.7	0.8	0.8
9	Jennifer Derevjanik	23	8	1	10.3	0.3	0.6	.400	0.0	0.1	.000	0.3	0.5	.500	0.3	0.5	.500	0.1	0.4	0.5	1.8	0.6	0.0	0.8	0.5	0.8
10	Le'coe Willingham	24	3	0	3.3	0.0	0.7	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.7	.000	0.7	0.7	1.000	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.7
11	Laura Summerton	21	2	0	1.0	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Totals

Regular Season

Playoffs

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Taj McWilliams-Franklin	34	34	34	1083	180	364	.495	4	18	.222	176	346	.509	107	136	.787	78	170	248	65	37	25	59	80	471
2	Nykesha Sales	29	34	34	1074	201	482	.417	49	116	.422	152	366	.415	81	108	.750	36	88	124	74	61	10	64	96	532
3	Lindsay Whalen	23	34	34	1047	135	290	.466	16	46	.348	119	244	.488	125	156	.801	29	99	128	172	42	2	89	90	411
4	Katie Douglas	26	32	32	998	119	288	.413	31	110	.282	88	178	.494	82	106	.774	45	85	130	94	48	4	54	57	351
5	Asjha Jones	24	33	4	705	133	275	.484	2	5	.400	131	270	.485	33	56	.589	54	67	121	40	10	7	51	70	301
6	Margo Dydek	31	31	30	671	87	162	.537	1	2	.500	86	160	.538	50	65	.769	27	168	195	38	8	71	47	62	225
7	Brooke Wyckoff	25	34	1	596	35	88	.398	22	52	.423	13	36	.361	13	20	.650	25	70	95	35	13	9	28	82	105
8	Jennifer Derevjanik	23	34	1	359	8	22	.364	1	7	.143	7	15	.467	7	16	.438	10	20	30	40	11	2	26	47	24
9	Le'coe Willingham	24	18	0	91	7	17	.412	0	0		7	17	.412	10	20	.500	10	7	17	3	2	0	14	16	24
10	Jamie Carey	24	15	0	85	7	19	.368	4	13	.308	3	6	.500	0	0		2	4	6	7	2	0	4	9	18
11	Jessica Brungo	23	12	0	48	1	9	.111	0	4	.000	1	5	.200	0	0		1	5	6	2	0	0	2	4	2
12	Laura Summerton	21	11	0	43	3	9	.333	0	0		3	9	.333	4	5	.800	5	5	10	3	2	0	4	11	10
			34		6800	916	2025	.452	130	373	.349	786	1652	.476	512	688	.744	322	788	1110	573	236	130	452	624	2474

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Taj McWilliams-Franklin	34	8	8	284	48	94	.511	1	3	.333	47	91	.516	30	38	.789	22	53	75	13	9	11	16	23	127
2	Katie Douglas	26	8	8	278	31	67	.463	15	38	.395	16	29	.552	19	29	.655	12	25	37	18	11	1	8	17	96
3	Nykesha Sales	29	8	8	270	37	101	.366	16	38	.421	21	63	.333	25	31	.806	10	22	32	19	16	8	16	20	115
4	Lindsay Whalen	23	7	7	220	19	57	.333	3	15	.200	16	42	.381	37	48	.771	6	18	24	23	6	1	20	11	78
5	Asjha Jones	24	8	0	178	29	60	.483	0	2	.000	29	58	.500	13	23	.565	8	20	28	7	2	4	11	23	71
6	Margo Dydek	31	8	8	146	14	38	.368	1	1	1.000	13	37	.351	7	11	.636	8	34	42	4	3	13	16	19	36
7	Brooke Wyckoff	25	8	0	109	5	12	.417	4	10	.400	1	2	.500	4	6	.667	3	12	15	3	1	2	5	13	18
8	Jennifer Derevjanik	23	8	1	82	2	5	.400	0	1	.000	2	4	.500	2	4	.500	1	3	4	14	5	0	6	4	6
9	Jamie Carey	24	6	0	71	2	9	.222	1	6	.167	1	3	.333	0	0		0	2	2	7	1	0	4	5	5
10	Le'coe Willingham	24	3	0	10	0	2	.000	0	0		0	2	.000	2	2	1.000	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	2
11	Laura Summerton	21	2	0	2	0	0		0	0		0	0		0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Advanced

Regular Season

Playoffs

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	eFG%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	ORtg	DRtg	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/40
1	Taj McWilliams-Franklin	34	34	1083	22.8	.556	.500	.049	.374	9.3	18.8	14.2	11.8	2.0	1.8	12.2	21.8	112	93	4.2	2.1	6.3	.232
2	Nykesha Sales	29	34	1074	20.1	.502	.468	.241	.224	4.3	9.8	7.2	14.2	3.2	0.7	10.8	27.0	102	94	2.7	1.8	4.5	.167
3	Lindsay Whalen	23	34	1047	20.5	.573	.493	.159	.538	3.6	11.3	7.6	30.2	2.3	0.2	19.9	20.9	110	96	3.8	1.5	5.3	.201
4	Katie Douglas	26	32	998	18.1	.524	.467	.382	.368	5.8	10.2	8.1	17.0	2.8	0.3	13.9	19.1	108	96	2.8	1.5	4.3	.171
5	Asjha Jones	24	33	705	16.1	.502	.487	.018	.204	9.9	11.4	10.7	11.7	0.8	0.8	14.5	24.3	98	99	1.1	0.7	1.8	.101
6	Margo Dydek	31	31	671	21.0	.590	.540	.012	.401	5.2	29.9	18.1	10.4	0.7	8.5	19.8	17.3	105	87	1.4	1.9	3.3	.199
7	Brooke Wyckoff	25	34	596	8.7	.542	.523	.591	.227	5.4	14.0	9.9	9.6	1.2	1.2	22.4	10.2	101	97	0.6	0.8	1.4	.095
8	Jennifer Derevjanik	23	34	359	3.5	.413	.386	.318	.727	3.6	6.7	5.2	17.1	1.8	0.4	47.2	7.5	76	99	-0.4	0.4	0.0	-0.002
9	Le'coe Willingham	24	18	91	3.4	.465	.412	.000	1.176	14.2	9.2	11.6	5.5	1.3	0.0	35.2	21.4	74	99	-0.3	0.1	-0.2	-0.077
10	Jamie Carey	24	15	85	7.7	.474	.474	.684	.000	3.0	5.6	4.4	13.9	1.3	0.0	17.4	13.2	95	101	0.1	0.1	0.1	.054
11	Jessica Brungo	23	12	48	-4.5	.111	.111	.444	.000	2.7	12.4	7.8	6.4	0.0	0.0	18.2	11.2	37	101	-0.2	0.0	-0.2	-0.152
12	Laura Summerton	21	11	43	8.5	.446	.333	.000	.556	15.1	13.9	14.5	11.6	2.7	0.0	26.3	17.3	90	94	0.0	0.1	0.1	.074

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	eFG%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	ORtg	DRtg	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/40
1	Taj McWilliams-Franklin	34	8	284	25.9	.574	.516	.032	.404	10.8	21.9	16.9	11.5	1.9	2.9	12.6	23.3	114	93	1.1	0.6	1.7	.246
2	Katie Douglas	26	8	278	20.3	.602	.575	.567	.433	6.0	10.6	8.5	14.2	2.4	0.3	9.1	16.5	124	99	1.1	0.3	1.5	.213
3	Nykesha Sales	29	8	270	20.4	.502	.446	.376	.307	5.2	9.6	7.6	16.4	3.6	2.2	12.2	25.2	103	96	0.6	0.5	1.0	.155
4	Lindsay Whalen	23	7	220	14.7	.499	.360	.263	.842	3.8	9.6	7.0	21.8	1.6	0.3	20.4	23.3	97	101	0.2	0.2	0.4	.077
5	Asjha Jones	24	8	178	14.6	.506	.483	.033	.383	6.3	13.2	10.0	9.7	0.7	1.7	13.6	23.8	97	101	0.2	0.2	0.4	.083
6	Margo Dydek	31	8	146	9.6	.420	.382	.026	.289	7.7	27.3	18.4	5.8	1.2	6.6	27.2	21.0	72	89	-0.5	0.4	-0.1	-0.016
7	Brooke Wyckoff	25	8	109	6.9	.615	.583	.833	.500	3.8	12.9	8.8	5.3	0.6	1.4	25.5	9.4	102	101	0.1	0.1	0.2	.067
8	Jennifer Derevjanik	23	8	82	9.3	.444	.400	.200	.800	1.7	4.3	3.1	31.5	3.7	0.0	47.0	8.1	87	100	0.0	0.1	0.1	.030
9	Jamie Carey	24	6	71	0.1	.278	.278	.667	.000	0.0	3.3	1.8	18.3	0.8	0.0	30.8	9.6	64	106	-0.2	0.0	-0.1	-0.080
10	Le'coe Willingham	24	3	10	3.1	.347	.000	.000	1.000	0.0	11.7	6.4	0.0	0.0	7.4	25.8	20.2	60	99	0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.134
11	Laura Summerton	21	2	2	0.0					0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		110	0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.017

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