Which teams have clinched a playoff spot?

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Sep 8, 2025, 04:14 PM ET

Eight teams beforehand to the 2025 WNBA playoffs, and the bracket is filling up. Just 1 spot remains done Sunday's games.

Final seeds mightiness not beryllium locked successful until Thursday's regular-season finales, but the Minnesota Lynx, Las Vegas Aces, Atlanta Dream and Phoenix Mercury volition big first-round games. The Lynx person besides secured home-court vantage passim the playoffs -- which unfastened Sunday -- arsenic the No. 1 wide seed.

The Connecticut Sun, Dallas Wings, Chicago Sky and Washington Mystics person been eliminated from the playoff race.

Here's a look astatine the teams that person clinched a playoff berth. We'll adhd seeds arsenic they are determined.

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Indiana Fever

How they got here: On Sunday, the Fever clinched a playoff berth for the 2nd consecutive year. Indiana punched its summons 3 days aft Caitlin Clark announced she would not return for the season. The Fever opened the play arsenic a rubric contender but person lost Clark and 4 different players -- guards Sydney Colson, Aari McDonald, Sophie Cunningham and guardant Chloe Bibby -- to season-ending injuries. Kelsey Mitchell (20.5 PPG, 3.5 APG) and Aliyah Boston (15.1 PPG, 8.1 RPG, 3.7 APG) person remained rocks passim the up-and-down play and present look to pb Indiana to its archetypal playoff triumph since 2015.

Key stat: The Fever won 5 consecutive games soon aft the All-Star interruption but person won back-to-back games conscionable erstwhile successful the past 5 weeks. They're 5-5 successful their past 10 games and 11-11 connected the road, wherever they volition unfastened the playoffs. At minimum, the Fever volition beryllium the No. 7 effect successful the postseason.