The Atlanta Dream have been one of the biggest surprises in the WNBA this season.

They won 30 regular-season games, double their total from a year ago, and they tied for the league's second-best record while earning the No. 3 playoff seed.

The Dream claimed their first playoff victory since 2018 by beating the visiting Indiana Fever 80-68 on Sunday. Now Atlanta can win a playoff series for the first time since 2016 if they beat the Fever in Game 2 on Tuesday night in Indianapolis.

"This wasn't going to be a year that we were going to be satisfied with everybody telling us, ‘Wow, you really improved over last year,'" Dream first-year coach Karl Smesko said. "That's not what we're trying to do. We're trying to be the best team in the league. We're trying to win the championship. We weren'

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