As the injuries piled on last season, the Connecticut Sun couldn’t believe their luck at times. It turned in their favor Thursday.
Participating in the WNBA Draft Lottery for the first time since coming to Connecticut, the Sun earned the third overall pick in the 2010 draft, the highest draft pick in franchise history.
Minnesota, which had [...]

After a summer of watching hideous basketball, a crowd of 9,047 showed up Sunday at Mohegan Sun Arena to send the Connecticut Sun into the most important offseason in the history of the franchise.
I’m not sure why 9,047, a virtual sellout, was there for a meaningless game on a 75-degree sunny day, let alone on [...]

Lindsay Whalen, the only player to start all 34 games for the Connecticut Sun, sustained a concussion Sunday in the season finale against Indiana and left the floor with 7:01 to play.
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Munching on one of her final post-game peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches of the year, Sandrine Gruda was asked to talk about the Connecticut Sun’s season as a whole Sunday.

From behind her, Kerri Gardin — with her back turned — grunted at the open-ended question. Gruda did her best to keep a straight face.

“That,” the French center said, [...]

An organization gets used to a routine after making the playoffs six straight seasons, which made Sunday seem so surreal for the Connecticut Sun.
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The Connecticut Sun returned from Atlanta on Saturday and held an afternoon practice, preparing for today’s game as if it were any other.
Today’s home game against Indiana is anything but normal for the Sun. Friday’s 88-64 loss to Atlanta eliminated them from making the playoffs, and for the first time in team history, they won’t [...]

On paper, the Connecticut Sun looked capable of capturing their first WNBA title this season. Instead, they’re playing out the string for the first time in team history.

Today’s regular-season finale against Indiana at Mohegan Sun Arena (3 p.m., WCTX) represents nothing more than a send-off for a season the Sun surely want to forget.
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For the first time in their seven-year history, the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun play a game today with no true meaning.
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The end came quickly for the Connecticut Sun Friday night.
The Sun needed to beat Atlanta in order to keep their WNBA playoff hopes alive, but were blitzed late in the first quarter and never recovered.
Erika De Souza had 15 points and 14 rebounds as the Dream crushed Connecticut, 88-64, before 8,644 at Philips Arena.
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The Connecticut Sun’s slim playoff hopes ended Friday night with an 88-64 loss to the Atlanta Dream, meaning the team will miss the postseason for the first time since relocating to the state in 2003.
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