Semifinals

The Aces faced a much more challenging opponent in the WNBA semifinals. The No. 4 Storm were a versatile, defensiveoriented team led by the 2022 scoring champion Breanna Stewart.

Seattle stunned the Aces in Game 1, winning 76-73 after another poor outing from Wilson. Storm coach Noelle Quinn seemingly had an answer for everything the Aces wanted to do offensively. The Aces leveled the series in Game 2 thanks to Wilson’s 33 points, setting up the pivotal Game 3.

In one of the greatest games in WNBA history, the Aces and Storm combined to score 14 points in the final minute of the fourth quarter. A buzzer-beating layup by Young sent the game to overtime, where the Aces blitzed the Storm for a 110-98 win, even though they had trailed by four points with 11.2 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter.

“We got it out of the mud,” Wilson said.