Win and the Dream would be in. They would clinch a matchup with the Liberty in the best-of-three first round, with the first two in Brooklyn. Lose and they could still get in with help on this final night. “We absolutely packed for a week,” Dream coach Tanisha Wright said before the game.

Chicago Sky loss to the Connecticut Sun would produce the same result. Meanwhile, New York officially clinched the #1 seed in their previous game on Tuesday night. but for all intents and purposes, have had home-court advantage locked up for about a month now.