WNBA Heat Check: Minnesota Lynx Are Scorching (9-1 Last 10)

Ten games is not a season, but it is a mood, and moods decide a lot of games. The current mood around WNBA: Minnesota Lynx keep winning, Toronto Tempo keep losing, and everybody else lives somewhere in the weather between.

Burning up

Nobody is playing better than Minnesota Lynx right now. The record says 9-1 over their last 10; the points column says even more, a +89 margin that works out to 90.5 scored and 81.6 allowed a night.

Atlanta Dream are the closest thing to company at 8-2, with a +103 points margin that says the record is no fluke.

Keep Indiana Fever in the conversation too, at 8-2 over their last 10.

For scale, the league as a whole is averaging 87.1 points a game over this window, Minnesota Lynx are clearing that bar by 3.4 a night all on their own.

Who's cold

At the bottom of the temperature map sit Toronto Tempo: 1-9 in their last 10, -138 on points margin. That is about 13.8 a game in the wrong direction, and no lineup shuffle fixes it overnight.

They have company at the cold end: Connecticut Sun, 2-8 over the same window.

In between the extremes it gets crowded, Dallas Wings at 5-5 and Las Vegas Aces at 5-5 are basically sharing a seat, and the next series either way will split them.

The board

The top of the ledger, at a glance:

Worth remembering

As always, watch where record and points margin tell different stories about the same club. The margin tends to know first.

One to circle: Seattle Storm meet Los Angeles Sparks in their next game, and we will find out quickly whether this stretch travels.