The Indiana Fever authored a tremendous upset and comeback 87-85 victory over the host Atlanta Dream on Thursday to take their first-round playoff series, two games to one.

The Fever are the first lower seed to win a first-round series since the league changed the playoff format in 2022

Thursday night in Atlanta ended in heartbreak. The Atlanta Dream has been one of the top teams in the WNBA all season and finished with a franchise-best 30 wins

The Dream were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, but Karl Smesko still has belief in the future of the team.

Atlanta had six empty possessions to end the game with three turnovers and three missed shots. The last miss was a desperation 3-pointer by Brianna Jones, the team’s worst shooter from that distance. The Fever won the series despite a long list of players out with injuries, including All-Star guard Caitlin Clark.

Very few predicted that the No. 6-seeded Indiana Fever would manage to beat the No. 3-seeded Atlanta Dream in a best-of-three series during the first round of t

Trae Young tried his best to comfort the Dream after their painful collapse in Game 3 in their season-ending loss to the Fever.

As for the Fever and Dream, Atlanta enters the night as 7 1/2-point favorites, according to DraftKings Sportsbook. The Dream won Game 1 on their home court 80–68, a game in which WNBA star Brittney Griner, who comes off the bench for the Dream, played just seven minutes.