2005 Connecticut Sun Statistics

Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Team Record: 26-8
Finishing 1st in the WNBA's Eastern Conference
Postseason: 5-3 Won Championship

First Round - Defeated Detroit Shock 2-0
Conference Finals - Defeated Indiana Fever 2-0
Finals - Lost to Sacramento Monarchs 3-1
Coach: Mike Thibault (26-8)
Location: Uncasville, Connecticut
Attendance: 121,944, Avg. 7,173 in 17 home dates

2005 Connecticut Sun Roster

The Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association ended the 2005 season with a record of 26 wins and 8 losses, finishing first in the WNBA's Eastern Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 5-3.

Connecticut tossed in 2,474 points and surrendered 2,244. Nykesha Sales scored a team-high 532 points for the Sun, while Taj McWilliams-Franklin and Lindsay Whalen netted 12 or more per game, too. Taj McWilliams-Franklin contributed 248 boards. Lindsay Whalen dished out 172 assists for the squad.

Defensively, Nykesha Sales added 61 steals, and Margo Dydek blocked 71 shots.

Mike Thibault coached the team. The 2005 Connecticut Sun won the Championship of the playoffs.

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Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Nykesha Sales	G-F	34	34	1074	482	201	116	49	108	81	36	88	124	74	61	10	64	96	532
Taj McWilliams-Franklin	F-C	34	34	1083	364	180	18	4	136	107	78	170	248	65	37	25	59	80	471
Lindsay Whalen	G	34	34	1047	290	135	46	16	156	125	29	99	128	172	42	2	89	90	411
Katie Douglas	G-F	32	32	998	288	119	110	31	106	82	45	85	130	94	48	4	54	57	351
Asjha Jones	F	33	4	705	275	133	5	2	56	33	54	67	121	40	10	7	51	70	301
Margo Dydek	C	31	30	671	162	87	2	1	65	50	27	168	195	38	8	71	47	62	225
Brooke Wyckoff	F	34	1	596	88	35	52	22	20	13	25	70	95	35	13	9	28	82	105
Jennifer Derevjanik	G	34	1	359	22	8	7	1	16	7	10	20	30	40	11	2	26	47	24
Le'coe Willingham	F	18	0	91	17	7	0	0	20	10	10	7	17	3	2	0	14	16	24
Jamie Carey	G	15	0	86	19	7	13	4	0	0	2	4	6	7	2	0	4	9	18
Laura Summerton	C	11	0	43	9	3	0	0	5	4	5	5	10	3	2	0	4	11	10
Jessica Brungo	F	12	0	47	9	1	4	0	0	0	1	5	6	2	0	0	2	4	2
Totals		322	170	6800	2025	916	373	130	688	512	322	788	1110	573	236	130	442	624	2474

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Nykesha Sales	G-F	34	34	31.6	41.7	42.2	75.0	1.1	2.6	3.6	2.2	1.8	0.3	1.9	2.8	15.6
Taj McWilliams-Franklin	F-C	34	34	31.9	49.5	22.2	78.7	2.3	5.0	7.3	1.9	1.1	0.7	1.7	2.4	13.9
Lindsay Whalen	G	34	34	30.8	46.6	34.8	80.1	0.9	2.9	3.8	5.1	1.2	0.1	2.6	2.6	12.1
Katie Douglas	G-F	32	32	31.2	41.3	28.2	77.4	1.4	2.7	4.1	2.9	1.5	0.1	1.7	1.8	11.0
Asjha Jones	F	33	4	21.4	48.4	40.0	58.9	1.6	2.0	3.7	1.2	0.3	0.2	1.5	2.1	9.1
Margo Dydek	C	31	30	21.6	53.7	50.0	76.9	0.9	5.4	6.3	1.2	0.3	2.3	1.5	2.0	7.3
Brooke Wyckoff	F	34	1	17.5	39.8	42.3	65.0	0.7	2.1	2.8	1.0	0.4	0.3	0.8	2.4	3.1
Jennifer Derevjanik	G	34	1	10.6	36.4	14.3	43.8	0.3	0.6	0.9	1.2	0.3	0.1	0.8	1.4	0.7
Le'coe Willingham	F	18	0	5.1	41.2		50.0	0.6	0.4	0.9	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.8	0.9	1.3
Jamie Carey	G	15	0	5.7	36.8	30.8		0.1	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.3	0.6	1.2
Laura Summerton	C	11	0	3.9	33.3		80.0	0.5	0.5	0.9	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.4	1.0	0.9
Jessica Brungo	F	12	0	3.9	11.1	0.0		0.1	0.4	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.3	0.2
Averages		322	170	21.1	45.2	34.9	74.4	1.0	2.4	3.4	1.8	0.7	0.4	1.4	1.9	7.7

Postseason - Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Taj McWilliams-Franklin	F-C	8	8	284	94	48	3	1	38	30	22	53	75	13	9	11	16	23	127
Nykesha Sales	G-F	8	8	270	101	37	38	16	31	25	10	22	32	19	16	8	16	20	115
Katie Douglas	G-F	8	8	278	67	31	38	15	29	19	12	25	37	18	11	1	8	17	96
Lindsay Whalen	G	7	7	220	57	19	15	3	48	37	6	18	24	23	6	1	20	11	78
Asjha Jones	F	8	0	178	60	29	2	0	23	13	8	20	28	7	2	4	11	23	71
Margo Dydek	C	8	8	146	38	14	1	1	11	7	8	34	42	4	3	13	16	19	36
Brooke Wyckoff	F	8	0	109	12	5	10	4	6	4	3	12	15	3	1	2	5	13	18
Jennifer Derevjanik	G	8	1	82	5	2	1	0	4	2	1	3	4	14	5	0	6	4	6
Jamie Carey	G	6	0	71	9	2	6	1	0	0	0	2	2	7	1	0	4	5	5
Le'coe Willingham	F	3	0	10	2	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	2
Laura Summerton	C	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals		74	40	1650	445	187	114	41	192	139	70	190	260	108	54	41	103	135	554

Postseason Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Taj McWilliams-Franklin	F-C	8	8	35.5	51.1	33.3	78.9	2.8	6.6	9.4	1.6	1.1	1.4	2.0	2.9	15.9
Nykesha Sales	G-F	8	8	33.8	36.6	42.1	80.6	1.3	2.8	4.0	2.4	2.0	1.0	2.0	2.5	14.4
Katie Douglas	G-F	8	8	34.8	46.3	39.5	65.5	1.5	3.1	4.6	2.3	1.4	0.1	1.0	2.1	12.0
Lindsay Whalen	G	7	7	31.4	33.3	20.0	77.1	0.9	2.6	3.4	3.3	0.9	0.1	2.9	1.6	11.1
Asjha Jones	F	8	0	22.3	48.3	0.0	56.5	1.0	2.5	3.5	0.9	0.3	0.5	1.4	2.9	8.9
Margo Dydek	C	8	8	18.3	36.8	100.0	63.6	1.0	4.3	5.3	0.5	0.4	1.6	2.0	2.4	4.5
Brooke Wyckoff	F	8	0	13.6	41.7	40.0	66.7	0.4	1.5	1.9	0.4	0.1	0.3	0.6	1.6	2.3
Jennifer Derevjanik	G	8	1	10.3	40.0	0.0	50.0	0.1	0.4	0.5	1.8	0.6	0.0	0.8	0.5	0.8
Jamie Carey	G	6	0	11.8	22.2	16.7		0.0	0.3	0.3	1.2	0.2	0.0	0.7	0.8	0.8
Le'coe Willingham	F	3	0	3.3	0.0		100.0	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.7
Laura Summerton	C	2	0	1.0				0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Averages		322	40	22.3	42.0	36.0	72.4	0.9	2.6	3.5	1.5	0.7	0.6	1.4	1.8	7.5

2005 Connecticut Sun Statistics

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