Seven of the eight WNBA playoff teams have been decided going into the final week of the regular season. The New York Liberty are in pole position to be

Minnesota has fallen out of the top four in the Power Rankings only once the rest of this season: at No. 6 just before the Olympic break. That followed a stretch the first two weeks of July when the Lynx lost four of six games. Lynx star Napheesa Collier missed the last two of those losses with plantar fasciitis.

The Lynx have two road games in three days against two of the other top teams in the league in New York and Connecticut.

The WNBA playoff picture is becoming clearer as the end of the regular season nears. With just one week to go before the start of the playoffs, seven