DALLAS, TX — Paige Bueckers was Paige Bueckers again on Friday in the Indiana Fever’s (16-12) second and final visit of the season to American Airlines Center. She was lethal in the midrange against whichever defender Fever head coach Stephanie White sent her way. Bueckers scored 15 of her 22 points in the first half of the Wings’ 88-78 loss .

The problem? No one in the starting lineup rode shotgun alongside Bueckers. The rest of Dallas’ starting five scored just 12 points in the first half, and Dallas shot 0-for-5 from 3-point range in the first two quarters (2-of-15 for the game), as the Fever took a 48-42 lead into the break. Indiana built on that lead and held the Wings at arm’s length throughout much of the second half, again without Caitlin Clark, who sat out with a groin injury in

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