Make that three straight games for the Missouri women’s basketball alum.
For the third straight matchup, Sophie Cunningham scored in double-digits, putting up 11 points to help the Indiana Fever defeat the Connecticut Sun 85-77 on Tuesday night at TD Garden in Boston.
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Cunningham has been near-automatic from behind the arc in her past few outings, as she went 2-of-3 from 3-point range against the Sun and is now 8-of-10 shooting in her last three games.
She was 4-of-6 from the field against the Sun and went 1-of-2 from the free-throw line.
The Mizzou grad and Columbia native also had three rebounds, three steals and an assist Tuesday, and recorded +9 plus/minus during her 26 minutes on the floor.
The Fever are now on a three-game winning streak, coinciding with Cunningham’s scoring streak. The Mizzou alum scored 16 points, and tied a career-high 10 rebounds, in a win over the Atlanta Dream on Friday night, and she put up 13 points on Sunday against the Dallas Wings.
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Kelsey Mitchell led Indiana in scoring with 19 points, and Natasha Howard (18), Caitlin Clark (14) and Aliyah Boston (11) each scored in double-digits.
The Fever are now 12-10. For the time being, that moves them into sixth place in the WNBA standings and 6.5 games back of the league-leading Minnesota Lynx.
Indiana is currently third in the Eastern Conference standings.
Jul 15, 2025; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham (8) reacts after her three point basket against the Connecticut Sun in the second quarter at TD Garden.
Entering Tuesday’s game, Cunningham was averaging 6.3 points, 4.2 rebounds, 0.9 assists and 0.8 steals per game this season — her first with the Fever after an offseason trade from the Phoenix Mercury.
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Earlier this year, Cunningham was announced as a member of Missouri athletics’ 2025 Hall of Fame Class. The Rock Bridge High grad is the all-time leading scorer for Mizzou women’s basketball with 2,187 points. The Tigers have not been to the NCAA Tournament since Cunningham graduated in 2019.
Indiana and Cunningham next face the Brooklyn Liberty at 6:30 p.m. CDT Wednesday in Brooklyn, New York.
This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Mizzou alum Sophie Cunningham’s double-digit scoring streak hits 3 games
