The WNBA changed its playoff format in part due to chartered flights making travel easier. It benefits lower-seeded teams like the Fever.

Game 2: Fever vs Dream, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday

INDIANAPOLIS — In last year's WNBA Playoffs, the last thing Connecticut Sun coach Stephanie White wanted to do was coach a playoff game in Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

Potentially heading into Indianapolis as the opponents, White knew that the crowd would be rowdy. Indiana Fever fans had shown up all year after Caitlin Clark was drafted, watching the transformation into a playoff team.

Luckily for White and her Sun team, though, they eliminated the Fever in the first round in two games — both hosted at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, because of the league’s formatting that gave the higher seed

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