Liberty match own WNBA record, hit 19 3s in rout

NEW YORK -- The New York Liberty matched their ain WNBA grounds by hitting 19 3-pointers successful a 100-52 rout of the Connecticut Sun connected Sunday.

The borderline of triumph was the 2nd largest successful league history, falling abbreviated of the 59-point grounds held by Minnesota successful a triumph implicit Indiana successful 2017. It did acceptable the franchise people for biggest win, eclipsing a 43-point triumph implicit Washington successful 1998.

Sabrina Ionescu led New York with 18 points portion Jonquel Jones added 13 points and 11 rebounds. Breanna Stewart and Leonie Fiebich besides had 13 points. All 4 sat retired for astir the full 4th quarter.

The Liberty finished 19 of 32 connected 3-point attempts, led by Ionescu who converted 4 of her six shots from agelong distance.

Still, New York improved to 7-0 for the archetypal clip since the 1997 season.

New York besides deed 19 3-pointers against Chicago connected May 22 to interruption the erstwhile league record. The Liberty astir topped that people done 3 quarters arsenic they deed 18 3s successful the archetypal 30 minutes, but they went acold successful the 4th from the outside, lone making one.

The Liberty finished disconnected a engaged week by winning their 4th crippled successful six days. They present person a spot of a interruption present with their adjacent crippled successful Washington connected Thursday.

Sunday's matchup was the archetypal crippled of the three-week agelong Commissioner's Cup in-season tournament. New York made the last past twelvemonth earlier losing to Minnesota. The Liberty got their revenge by winning the WNBA championship.

New York took it close astatine Connecticut, gathering a 31-13 pb aft 1 4th arsenic Stewart, Ionescu, Fiebich and Jones combined to people each the points. The Liberty kept it rolling successful the 2nd 4th extending the vantage to 60-28 astatine the half. New York changeable 68% from the tract successful the archetypal half, including making 12 3-pointers.

The Liberty didn't fto up successful the 3rd 4th and the points kept going connected the scoreboard.

Even up 50 points, New York challenged a foul committed by Ionescu connected a 3-point changeable by Marina Mabrey. New York won the challenge, and the prima defender ran retired connected the tribunal successful excitement past high-fived the Liberty unit for challenging the call.

Tina Charles and Jacy Sheldon led Connecticut (1-6) with 10 points each.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.